when to add honey to cider brew ?

[juggernaut]

hi, first time posting so go easy :

just started brewing some cider and iv read you can add honey at some point to make a little nice (meady) tasting and raise the alcohol content but im not sure when.

im brewing 18 litres at the minute and on day 1 of fermenting, this is not from apple juice but from that thick stuff from a kit tin where you add sugar at the start.

any help would be appriciated :pray:

thanks
luke

 

[ni9e]

If your after a mead type of cider I'd go the TC with apple juice route and add honey at the start instead of using sugar or if your after a mead make up a mead recipie and add apples to the fermenting mixture :)

 

[leondz]

I would add about half a kilo a week in, and extend your brewing times after that by 7 days at least.

 

[juggernaut]

Thanks for both sets of info, can't wait to taste it now next couple of weeks are gonna drag I think!!

 

[juggernaut]

my cider will be ready to syphen in to bottles in the next day or so but iv read that once it has been left then cooled and it clears (after adding a teaspoon of sugar to each bottle) it will leave a sediment in the bottom of the bottle? is the easiest way to get around this to syphen it into a a screw top fermenting barrel, adding the same amount of sugar that id of put in the induvidual bottles and leaving it air tight for the sugar to react and force the co2 into the cider and clear after 3 or 4 days and then sypen again into bottles leaving the sediment at the bottom of the ssecond screw top barrel ?

dont fancy having this stuff floating around in the bottom of my bottle or trying to clean the sediment out of the bottles when i want to reuse them again.

an help would be greatly appriciated :thumb:

cheers
luke