More palatable cider

[WillG3]

Perhaps I am expressing my ignorance, but I am new to this practice so...

Is there a way to make my home brew cider less dry? some sort of none sugar additive I can add at the end. I have tried tesco value sweetener and it made no difference what so ever.

Could do with having a less dry batch for the bird.

Cheers

 

[Base]

I dissolve a table spoon of honey in about 3 or 4 tablespoons of kettled water and pour a pint of TC over it. I still like cordial or stevia aswell. I still need to try Apple juice.

 

[Gayle]

Adding extra fermentable sugar at bottling time (sugar, honey, syrup etc) will cause it to be fermented by the yeast still active in the brew, a little bit is needed for carbonation but too much will make very fizzy, gushing cider, or even bottle bombs if you use glass bottles and it could still end up dry! If you don't mind a still cider, you can kill off the yeast after fermentation with potassium sorbate, and then sweeten as much as you like. You could probably then force-carbonate this in a corny keg if you have one. Alternatively you can add sugar, honey, cordials or whatever in the glass.

 

[Eric_S]

Splash of apple juice at drinking time is what we do - makes it a little sweeter and helps the appley taste; I bought Asda's version of splenda but not keen on artificial sweeteners TBH.

 

[graysalchemy]

Back sweeten with splenda is the easiest thing to do before you bottle.

 

[Buster]

Back sweeten with splenda is the easiest thing to do before you bottle.

+1 with grays or use Hambleton Bard Cider Yeast with Sweetener, its all done for you then, just add the combined yeast/sweetener the same as your ordinary yeast and you will have sweet cider and you can also add 1tsp per 500ml of sugar at bottling time to carbonate as well. Sorted :thumb: