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All my ciders taste like dry wine - any suggestions?
I think your problem is the yeast and added sugar.
These days, I only use apple juice (in 3litre plastic bottles) from the supermarket (NO preservative) and NO added sugar etc.
I use 2 teaspoons of sugar when I bottle into 700ml plastic "pet" bottles, and my ciders are consistently mildly sweet and gassy, like a sparkling light wine, unless of course I let it "age" too long, as I have found over the years, the older it becomes, the dryer it gets, so I do not brew too much each time, but brew small quantities 24litres) regularly.
ALSO, I have found that a cheap beer yeast keeps the cider mildly sweet, not dry. I found that wine and cider and champayne yeasts make the cider dry.
Dont worry, because there is no added sugar, it will still get you "leg-less"
have fun
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
If you want ot sweeten dry cider do the same as you would wine. Stablize it to kill any yeast left in it then add sugar to get the sweetness level you want, then bottle. you can use campden tablets to kill the yeast. One tablet per gallon will do the trick. I use campden tablets for that purpose in sweetening wine and right before bottling to ensure no bottle bombs.
DC
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