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Thank you all for your replies, yes I have opened the bottles with care , had gushers but luckily no explosions, and put back in the fermenter. I am going to pass on the pasturisation technique and just use a sweetener once fermentation has completed again , and have an extra strong brew...

Thanks for the reply, apologies I must not of explained properly. From my limited understanding the sugar will only affect the abv if there is active yeast present, therefore backsweetening is normally done by using artificial or non-fermentable sugars when bottle carbonating. However, due to...

Is that what's caused extreme carbonation to occur within 24 hours? As I said my aim was to have a sweeter cider so i was going to cut off further fermentation by stove top pasturisation. I managed to salvage the cider and recap it for a second attempt, but now I've noticed white floating bits...

Hi everyone , Just made my first batch of cider, everything has gone smooth so far following advice I've seen on this forum, so thanks! I am struggling with the final process of bottle carbonation. I am after a medium sparkling cider, so after fermentation I had a F.G of 0.998, I moved the...