Hi i have a ossible 'lost in translation' problem.
now ive read for adding apple to meads to use Cider...
1) is this alchoholic apple cider? or as someone pointed out to me recently is 'Cider' in the US simple another name for apple juice?
2) if it is alchoholic cider will any fizzy commercial cider suffice? or does it need to be a home made flat cider without any other commercial additives etc?
3) either way can somone guide me here, as ive heard talk of making sure it doesnt contain sorbate etc, basically im planning to add fruit and spice (apple, raspberry and cinnamon) to my mead after it has finished fermenting for aging. so perhaps the sulphites isnt an issue, perhaps i need to stop it re-starting the fermentation etc.
4) im going to try to do this to 1 single bottle worth of my main batch as a test run for a future new batch so was thinking to split that single bottle into 2 bottles to make room for the fruit/juice/bag with spice then once its flavoured siphon it into a new bottle to age further, this sound ok?
5) if anyone wants give me some rough guidelines about how much i might want to add of these extra ingredients or point me to a similar recipe to this that would be great.
Cheers!
now ive read for adding apple to meads to use Cider...
1) is this alchoholic apple cider? or as someone pointed out to me recently is 'Cider' in the US simple another name for apple juice?
2) if it is alchoholic cider will any fizzy commercial cider suffice? or does it need to be a home made flat cider without any other commercial additives etc?
3) either way can somone guide me here, as ive heard talk of making sure it doesnt contain sorbate etc, basically im planning to add fruit and spice (apple, raspberry and cinnamon) to my mead after it has finished fermenting for aging. so perhaps the sulphites isnt an issue, perhaps i need to stop it re-starting the fermentation etc.
4) im going to try to do this to 1 single bottle worth of my main batch as a test run for a future new batch so was thinking to split that single bottle into 2 bottles to make room for the fruit/juice/bag with spice then once its flavoured siphon it into a new bottle to age further, this sound ok?
5) if anyone wants give me some rough guidelines about how much i might want to add of these extra ingredients or point me to a similar recipe to this that would be great.
Cheers!