The FReeper mentioned he mixed three cans of the frozen concentrate with water to make a gallon then mixed it into his five gallons of cider. I wanted to ask why he didn’t just add the defrosted concentrate to his five gallons of cider? I bought some concentrate but am not expecting to add it in for a few months. I will bottle in PET bottles.
Yeah I ‘d think he’d want to dilute it as little as he could. What I’ve seen referenced is using the straight concentrate.
I bottle my cider in 1/2 gallon jugs it comes in. They’re PET bottles but I don’t think as thick as bottling PET bottles and don’t have as many threads for the cap. Basically they didn’t have pressurized product in them originally and weren’t designed for it.
I’ve used a few Coke 2L bottles but I think they give a ‘plastic’ taste to the cider.
I’ve found that during the winter I can really speed up cider production: cold crash the primary when it’s done, rack, then after another week or so cold crash the secondary and rack again. Takes less than two months from start to finish and the only work is taking it in the house for the ferments and outside for the crashes.