And a hint of strawberry

[LordEoin]

I primed a few bottles of cider with 5ml of the strawberry one of this stuff from Lidl a few weeks ago.
Its a dilutable that goes 1:7, so kinda double concentrated.
It's carbonated and has a VERY slight hint of strawberry, well worth experimenting with 

[DEMPSEY]

Does those dilutables have any fermentable sugar in them and if so how do you stop it fermenting out.

[LordEoin]

I've no idea how you'd stop it fermenting out, I added it as priming sugar.
If you want something that will add flavor without sugar, buy some KoolAid online. It works great

[DEMPSEY]

Sodium Metabisulphite is or has being used to stop yeast regrowth. I can remember that in the old Dempsey's brewery they would make up a solution of this and put it in the bright beer tank before transferring the bright filtered beer to this tank for carbonation.

[LordEoin]

I don't like adding extra chemicals to my brews. I've no problem with the dilutable fermenting out, that's why it was added.

[LordEoin]

i tried these again tonight and...

4ml per 500ml bottle was better than normal. a slight strawberry aroma and vague taste
5ml per 500ml botle was better again. slightly more noticable but with no fakey sweetness

fakey sweetness could just have been masked by the 2Xcanderell tablets per pint. 1 was not enough for any of the batch.

i also tried a couple primed with apple drop sweets
normal apple drops are beter than sour apple drops.
But they turn the drink a slightly gren colour.

conclusions:
boiled sweets are god to replace carb drops, and will add flavour.
the right dilutable drink will do the same, but with less noticable colour.