Finlandia Apple Pear Cider

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

Bottled this evening.
Came up with this label to add to a few of the bottles . . . Will print a few off when i get back to work 

Named "Oscars Cider" after my new born son, sure why not!!!!!

[lampie]

gratz on the newborn

and how is the taste? I made the finlandia pear cider only and it had a chemical smelling bag of pear something with the kit.. have it in secondary now for 1 week and will bottle when i can find some time

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

cheers lampie

its only bottled but I sampled it as I bottled it and it was good.  I'm more into the sweet ciders so this one suited me. Will try a bottle in a few weeks when its fully carbed etc.

[benji]

At what rate did you carb it at, I done 5g/l as per instructions in the summer and I thought it came out slightly flat.

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

I bottled it into 500ml bottles and 1 1/2 coopers carb drops per bottle.
Not too sure what that works out at

[johnrm]

Sounds about right for cider.

[Ciderhead]

1 is fine if you can wait 3-6 months
1.5 if you are in a hurry

[LordEoin]

I bottled it into 500ml bottles and 1 1/2 coopers carb drops per bottle.
Not too sure what that works out at

8 grams per liter

[johnrm]

Were there different size Carb drops?

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

They were just the standard Coopers Drops.  I have a good scissors so I cut them in half.
Bit of a pain in the arse really - Drops are for 330ml or 750ml bottles, would make sense if they sold drops for 500ml bottles - bloody Aussies!!!!!

[Ciderhead]

your next bucket puchase will allow you to batch prime and you will get a better more uniform result.

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

thats defo something i've considered! Will be asking you all about it when you are collecting your Brew 

[benji]

I second on batch priming, get yourself a second bucket and batch prime it'll make you life a lot easier and it ensures that your brew is carbonated consistently 

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

I'm sure theres a thread in here somewhere explaining it.
My first concern would be the extra vessel increases risk of infected brew . . . and more cleaning too!!

[Will_D]

Maybe people are a bit, how shall we say politely, "anal" about hygiene.

I have heard about people who regard a tap in the bottom of a fermenter as a "Hades of potential infection" but are happy to use a syphon or turkey baster to take out a gravity sample. They may also use a bottling bucket to prime the batch and decant into bottles!