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Well tried one tonight and I must say I was a little disappointed, very little blackcurrant coming through quite tart,could be it needs a bit more back sweetening or do it 2 Blackcurrant instead of the one.???? What do you think?

Well Blackcurrant cider now in the bottles (hyd reading 996) put away in the coolest place I could find (still bit warm but hey no)going to leave it there for a couple of week before I sample one.I did have a taste while bottling(less than half a bottle wasn't worth putting in a bottle) and I...

Right quick up date. When I made my Blackcurrant cider My neighbour started a Strawberry (ribena) cider exactly the same apart from no additional sugar, a hyd reading was taken today 1009-10 do a trip bottled with 1level tsp sugar and 1 1/2 sweetener used 500ml pet bottles so now wait and watch...

Thanks Southern and Tony4790 for the comments, very helpful and reasurring to hear that I'm on the right lines. I was thinking of 1 and a 1/2 teaspoons of sweetener and a level teaspoon of sugar for priming in a 500ml bottle .

That's very interesting if not unexpected. Yes I did use an Ale yeast (Young's). So being that I'm more into medium dry( I should also add they I am also doing a Strawberry cider) how much sweetener could I expect to add.

Just a quick up date, yesterday when the ferment had slowed down topped the dj up with another litre of Apple juice. Had a look to see how thing were progressing and I am pleased to say it's plopping away very nicely.

Yes it does contain preservatives so I boilit for around5-6mins. As for taking a o.g. reading no for some unknown reason I didn't. It has now been fermenting reasonably vigorously so all seems to be going as Well as I expected.

I've just started a Blackcurrant TC and just realised I used ribena (which should be diluted 1part juice to 4 parts water.what's the chance of this fermenting out? So in the JD there's 3lt of Apple juice and .850ml of ribena with Young's Ale yeast,the temp is 20degC. I started it about 19:00hrs...

Hi this is the tacker ,I've been doing homebrew for two or three years now All from kit form (they seem to have got rid of the homebrew TWANG of yesteryear,The brews I've tried are :- St Peters Ruby Red(very good) :drink: , Woodfords Wherry (Great) :party: ,Coopers Stout (ish) :( , Edme Stout...