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Yer it has stopped, and I waited an extra day just to be sure, took a few readings etc, was not budging.... I don't think they are going to explode yet, but I wouldn't like to leave them for a week....

Yep, glass bottles, it's an off the shelf mix and it should end up around 1.006 ish, I figured 1.008 was close enough. I've been bulk priming for quite a while with no issues, had great results, but I'm just wondering if it's the dex (I normally do it with suger) or 1.008 was not low enough...

Yesterday I racked some cider SG was at about 1.008, and had stopped fermenting (pear). I had some left over dextrose so I mixed in 140grams for the 23L lot and bottled. I normally bottle out the last bottle into a fountain mint bottle so I can open and check fizz every few days etc. Well it's...

Given that a tend to have it in small quantities, i.e. maybe a stubbie every few days I think I'll be ok. If was drinking a few or more everyday, then maybe I'd have need of concern :) It can't be worse than Lactose..

I've used Lactose in a few ciders, and I've added 250gm to 500gm of Pear, Strawberry pear. raspberry pear etc... It clears out no worries, you can't tell it's in. To be honest the Lactose makes it taste kinda funny (I've tried a few bottle from the same with / without for comparison. So for my...

Hi All, I've just finished running my first cider through first fermentation (from scratch, 23L of juicing)..... It's ended up at 1 basically (Very Dry). I've currently got it in the fridge to drop most of the sediment out, then I'll rack to add sweetner and suger for carbination (maybe some...