{"id":529,"date":"2013-12-27T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2013-12-27T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T15:01:12","slug":"bottling-perry-and-cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/bottling-perry-and-cider\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottling Perry and Cider"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The identical looking brews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After my earlier post, I decided that I could probably bottle things pretty quickly “before lunch” <cough>.\u00a0 I cleaned up the bottles by simply putting a tiny amount of cleaning and sterilising powder in them and filling with warm water.<\/p>\n

Though both have been bubbling away gently in the garage, I ‘d found that they had not changed their specific gravity at all<\/a>.\u00a0 When syphoning, I found that they were already rather fizzy – I put this down to the garage being cold and the carbon dioxide being more soluble in cold liquids than warm ones.<\/p>\n

All my recipes say bottle with priming sugar – at least a teaspoon full.\u00a0 Given that these were fizzing as bottled and that my first cider has bottles as hard as bricks I erred on the side of caution and did half a teaspoon per bottle.<\/p>\n

The final alcohol levels in these are for the perry, 5.9% and the cider 6.1%.\u00a0 I got a tiny taste of the perry and it seemed OK, a lot better than when I racked it off and put it in the garage.\u00a0 I guess that like cider, it needs quite a while to sort itself out.<\/p>\n

Finally, I found the cider and perry look almost identical, so I need to find a labelling system that is easy to recycle\/remove.<\/p>\n