{"id":262,"date":"2013-11-07T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2013-11-07T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:43:07","slug":"cider-bottling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/cider-bottling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cider bottling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was going to shuffle the cider on to a new demijohn today so that I could use the yeast at the bottom to start the new “Newport” batch.\u00a0 When I carefully carried it in from the garage (trying to avoid twisting and bumping) I thought it looked pretty clear.\u00a0 My instructions said that I should bottle it at this stage, so I went through the process again like yesterday, sterilising my tube and filling the bottles evenly.\u00a0 The batch looks pretty clear and the specific gravity was 1.002.\u00a0 \"500D_1812\"<\/a>This batch has an interesting history, recorded in my initial scribbled notes.\u00a0 It was 1.040 then I had added a mysterious 113g of sugar (which looks like 4oz).\u00a0 113g turns out to be the sugar needed to raise one gallon at 1.040 to 1.050.\u00a0 I had worked this out from the sheet in the hydrometer.\u00a0 So, the gravity went from 1.050 to 1.002 – according to the sheet this means that the final alcohol content is about 6%, which is spot on right.<\/p>\n

I then added one heaped teaspoon of sugar to each bottle and topped them up a little with water so they looked about the same height so looked nice and even.\u00a0 It wasn’t much water so I don’t think it will affect them much at all.\u00a0 I remembered to have a little taste as well.\u00a0 It was much less harsh than last time.\u00a0 Almost drinkable.\u00a0 Another few weeks and it will be worth a try.\u00a0 A little shake to get the sugar dissolved and off they go to do their fizzy magic for a few days.<\/p>\n

\"500D_1816\"<\/a>I left the must at the bottom\u00a0 in the hope that can be my cider yeast for the next batch.<\/p>\n

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\"500D_1817\"<\/a>
Frothy after a shake to get the sugar dissolved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was going to shuffle the cider on to a new demijohn today so that I could use the yeast at the bottom to start the new “Newport” batch.\u00a0 When I carefully carried it in from the garage (trying to avoid twisting and bumping) I thought it looked pretty clear.\u00a0 My instructions said that I … Continue reading Cider bottling<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bramley-2013-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}