making cider help please

[alan66]

Hi all, i have a gallon of cider thats coming to the end of enitial ferment, its been on the dj for a week now, this is for the motherinlaw to be as i dont like cider.
I used the turbo cider recipe with added honey and cider yeast.
My question is .. she want a sweet cider and fizzy.. is this possible? if so how do i do this? as if i kill the yeast to leave a little sugar unfermented i will not be able to prime to give some fizz??

Thanks
Alan

[fatbloke]

Hi all, i have a gallon of cider thats coming to the end of enitial ferment, its been on the dj for a week now, this is for the motherinlaw to be as i dont like cider.
I used the turbo cider recipe with added honey and cider yeast.
My question is .. she want a sweet cider and fizzy.. is this possible? if so how do i do this? as if i kill the yeast to leave a little sugar unfermented i will not be able to prime to give some fizz??

Thanks
Alan

If it was me Alan, I'd be make sure that it tastes ok (once cleared/filtered/whatever), sweeten it with a non-fermentable sweetener (lactose or something that the HBS's sell) and then bottle it with a small amount of sugar/dextrose/hone so that the yeast has something to work on to carbonate it.

dunno if anyone else has any other and/or better ideas

regards

JtFB

[alan66]

If it was me Alan, I'd be make sure that it tastes ok (once cleared/filtered/whatever), sweeten it with a non-fermentable sweetener (lactose or something that the HBS's sell) and then bottle it with a small amount of sugar/dextrose/hone so that the yeast has something to work on to carbonate it.

dunno if anyone else has any other and/or better ideas

regards

JtFB

Thanks jtfb, so i shouldnt stabalise it? and just let it run its course, then sweeten to taste with a non fermenting sweetner and prime?

Regards

Alan

[fatbloke]

Thanks jtfb, so i shouldnt stabalise it? and just let it run its course, then sweeten to taste with a non fermenting sweetner and prime?

Regards

Alan

That's what I'd be doing, if you stabilise you'd have to carbonate some other way i.e. CO2 or the champagne method (a major PITA if you ask me - I can't be ar5ed with all that faffing about).

regards

JtFB