Cider Digest #1806

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Subject: Cider Digest #1806, 30 August 2013 
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Cider Digest #1806                                         30 August 2013 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Sterile Filtration or Flash Pasteurization & inline carbonization (Mike Faul) 

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Subject: Sterile Filtration or Flash Pasteurization & inline carbonization 
From: Mike Faul <mfaul@faul.net> 
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:05:58 -0700 

Hi all 

I am looking at options above and beyond sterile filtration for my 
ciders prior to bottling. 
I have in the past had two batches that once bottled seemed fine but 
after a few weeks dropped a pretty nasty sediment that can only be 
described as rotten apple. 
Looks yeasty but there is zero additional carbonation. I think the 
sterile filtration must have failed for those two batches and I recalled 
the product. 

Anyway, I can't have that happen again and so I am thinking that flash 
pasteurization and inline carbonization prior to bottling might be the 
way to go. 

Blended cider -> sterile filtration into bulk tank -> HTFP -> inline 
carbonator -> bottling line 

Has anyone done this?  I'm not very enthusiastic about in bottle 
pasteruization with a tunnel etc. Seems likea waste of a lot of energy. 

Mike 

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