ShelleyDickison
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do you have the recipe that you used and would you be willing to share??
Ok bottle bombs. I am thinking the whole batch is a wash. If anyone has a better recipe I would be interested. It was really good at least the one bottle I drank was.
southlake333 said:Is it Upstate Mike's caramel apple cider? If so, don't follow his process, just the ingredients of the recipe. It makes bottle bombs. Ferment dry, stabilize, then backsweeten.
He suggests killing fermentation early by racking and adding kmeta (yeah, just kmeta). Knowing that was wrong, I even added sorbate but there's still just too much yeast, too much residual sugar and not enough time between stabilizing, backsweetening and bottling in his instructions to allow the yeast to die off.
For those interested in a similar tasting recipe that won't explode, I posted my modified version here:
http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/f5/true-beginner-33132/
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