priming and back sweetening with Apple juice?

[John Robbins]

I've just fermented out my 1 gal demi of turbo cider and instead of adding sugar to Prime i was considering using a 1 litre carton of Apple juice shared between the 10x 500ml bottles. (100ml in each)
It finished quite dry and I'm aiming for a medium sweetness

It would work out about 10g of sugar in each. Do you think that would be ok or would this much sugar be too gassy?

 

[Dutto]

No for two reasons:

1. Adding sugar or Apple Juice to the brew after fermentation and then bottling it won't make it any sweeter, it will just make it "fizzy".
2. In extreme cases (such as your proposed 20g per litre) it will provide you with a very messy storage area as the bottles explode!

If you wish to make the cider sweeter then you have two choices:

1. Use a non-fermentable sweetener such as Splenda and bottle it with a normal amount of sugar. (Normally 3g of Brewing Sugar per litre 'cos I hate "gassy" drinks.)
2. Use a Stabiliser to stop all fermentation and then sweeten it with Apple Juice or Sugar to taste. The Stabiliser stops ALL fermentation so forced carbonation is really the only possible way to get any bubbles in a brew after is has been stabilised.

Hope this helps.

 

[Frogbrew]

Half a carton (500ml) is good for carbonating a 1 gal batch but as dutto says you need an unfermentable sweetener for the back sweetening.
I usually go with one sweetener tablet per 500ml bottle and a tsp of sugar per 500ml bottle, put it in a jug with 250ml boiling water, dissolve and add to your cider to batch prime.