Recent content by DougKemp

Ok that is what I assumed. It was late on a Friday and was tired. Didn't check source of info properly for sure. Facepalmed myself this morning when I realised what i'd done. It's quite a lot of cider so i think i'll use it to sweeten off other batches as far as possible. Won't be making the...

Acesulphame Potassium. My fear is that it's too sweet. I got my calculations so muddled that i don't think I have enough tart cider to save it.

Hello Forum Last week I bottled some cider which i had let fermented fully so it was really dry and tart. My plan was to add sweetener as I had done so successfully last year. But this time round I got myself really muddled and added way too much sweetener! Something like 50x too much! I have...

Hi al. First post here. I also had this problem last autumn. Wanted to stop my cider before 1.000 or thereabouts. It ended up around 7% and was very acidic! Good apple flavour but really tart! Used campdens and Potassium Sorbate to stop fermentation (or so I thought). Ended up putting 100L into...

Hello Forum Doug from Sheffield here. I'm interested in cider making. Have had a couple of goes at home which went ok. Did a rather larger, more ambitious community cider project last year. Cider turned out pretty well but I'm keen to learn more - want to be able to give all the apple donors a...