Cider Digest #0041

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Subject: Cider Digest #41 Thu Oct 3 18:00:06 EDT 1991 
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 18:00:07 EDT 
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Cider Digest #41          Thu Oct 3 18:00:06 EDT 1991 
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  sweet, sparkling (Aaron Birenboim) 

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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 08:28:29 MDT 
From: abirenbo@isis.cs.du.edu (Aaron Birenboim) 
Subject: sweet, sparkling 

>Date: Tue,  1 Oct 91 18:32:11 PDT 
>From: dbell@cup.portal.com 
>I'd like to  
>halt the fermentation with a bit of residual sugar, and 
>keg- or bottle-condition for moderate carbonation. 

  I had a book which suggests that you sugar to taste 
(or in your case, stop fermentation early), bottle, 
and then pasturize when you have desired carbonation. 

  I will be trying this with my present batch.  i'll 
share the results. 

  BTW, the pasturization method is to place the bottles covered 
in water in a large kettle, and bring to about 170F. Hold for 
20 Min or so, then cool slowly. 

  the only problem i have with this is that i will have to waste 
several bottles while checking carbonation.  I am planning on using 
a method i'm stealing from a soda-pop recipe.  Put 1 l. of cider 
in a plastic soda-pop bottle.  When the pop bottle feels about 
as tight as it did when it had soda...  pasturize. 

    aaron 

p.s.  sorry about the mixed use of "soda" and "pop".  I just 
moved to "pop" country from "soda" country, and i'm a bit 
confused ;-) 

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