Carbonating cider with frozen apple juice.

[nigel6]

I have just produced my first 23l batch of cider which has just been racked into a second fv to stand for a while. I will probably bottle it some time in the next 2/3 weeks and have been searching advice on carbonating. Some people add sugar solution to fv before bottling, others add a teaspoon of sugar to each bottle as they bottle and I have also seen a post which recommends adding frozen apple juice to the fv.

I can understand the 2 sugar options but I am curious to understand the benefit of adding frozen juice. I understand that the juice itself will have sugars that can ferment to carbonate but why frozen juice??

 

[wilsoa1111]

i dont think the juice has to be frozen-certainly wouldnt want to lob it would be too cold for the yeasties :cry: , as long as its sterile its gd (ie a new carton is ideal)- the juice would be to give a more appley taste vs sugar but working out the exact amounts to give adequete carbonation involve converting the ajs s.g to brix so can get sugar in g and so on- have done in past for my beers when too cheap for spraymalt but sugar is plenty fine- what i use but then im no massive cider fan-could split the batches and try a mix

DONT add straight dry anything though its unlikely to be sterile and its a bugger to mix in without oxidising the brew