Turbo cider help

[johnnie]

I've never done a cider before so I thought i'd have a go at turbo cider as it seems pretty simple. Picked up some juice from Costco at £6.70 for 12 litres. But i've got a few questions. When do I bottle and how much sugar do I add to each bottle? Also do I need to add a campden tablet at some point? I read somewhere that you add one tablet to each gallon. I'm doing a 5 gallon batch, so would I have to add 5 tablets?

 

[oldbloke]

You could use a hydrometer to bottle at typical beer/cider finishing gravities (which IIRC are around 1002 to 1005)
OR
you could do what I do, and bottle when it's just starting to clear - it'll finish clearing in the bottle.

As with beer, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of sugar per pint for priming.

Then leave it somewhere warmish for a week so the yeast works on the priming sugar, then somewhere cold for a couple of weeks so the CO2 from that gets absorbed nito the liquid.

Few people bother with Campden, partyl coz it gets drink before it has a chance to go bad, partly coz the still-working yeast prevents oxidation anyway. Just try not to expose it to more air then you have to when bottling, but don't worry about it too much, it'll be fine.

 

[Marrsy86]

You could use a hydrometer to bottle at typical beer/cider finishing gravities (which IIRC are around 1002 to 1005)

I let my TC go down to 0.995 then back sweeten if required.

 

[oldbloke]

You could use a hydrometer to bottle at typical beer/cider finishing gravities (which IIRC are around 1002 to 1005)

I let my TC go down to 0.995 then back sweeten if required.

Do they still manage to produce a bit of fizz during bottle conditioning when you do it like that?

 

[Marrsy86]

I usually have my cider flat anyway but when I do make a fizzy batch I just add around a teaspoon of sugar to each bottle and it gets a nice fizz.