i mightve done something wrong with this apple cider

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[JamiePietrowski]

Try a 72 degrees farenheight area to do the final carbonation ferment. And possibly maybe a bit more sugar if this doesn't do it.

[sambowles]

Patience my friend. If the cider still had some sweetness, wait another week before opening the other bottles. I’d try this before adding more sugar to another batch. Also suggest to leave less head space when you fill the bottles. Keep up the great work!

[dennieish]

Try to look for the properties of xylitol, bcs I read somewhere that certain sugar alcohols have antimicrobial activities, so I assume the slow 2nd fermentation might be from that.

[DaniloAMViana]

I use the same method to carbonate my homebrew. If you squeeze the bottle as you did, you might add a little extra sugar to fill up that headspace.
In my tests something about 10-12 grams of sugar (total) per liter is enough for a nice crisp and sparkling sensation. If using hard bottles or not squeezing them, try something between 7-9 grams of sugar (total) per liter.

[ninetyone]

Find a CO2 calculator online and weigh the specific amount of sugar you need to carbonate. That way you won't be risking over-pressure. Bottle conditioning like this also takes a little while, especially after it's sat around and the yeast have dropped out of suspension before you tried to carbonate it. It should take about two weeks

[asasaw]

It's better to add the sugar you want to use to bottle carb all together in the batch. That way your bottles will all end up at the same level of carbonation

[ethanfaris]

How long did it sit for? carbonation can take usually 7-10 days and sometimes even more.

[OgWesB]

Use dextrose (corn sugar) if you can find it. It’s the most easily fermentable sugar and works great for priming. Coming from a brewer

[JhonJrCoffee]

Not the sugar, you are not leave enough room for perssure to build up.

[theIntuitionist]

I highly, highly recommend the book "Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider" by Annie Proulx. Great book on its own from a Pulitzer Prize winning author- deeply researched, informative and incredibly well told.

[raincoatsandfoxes]

Add bit of yeast into the bottle before sealing it’s not uncommon for yeast to have died by the second bottling

[TheInfiniteMag]

Let is clear first and than bottle it also your abv might be to high to let the yeast make those bottles supper carbonated

[robin]

Ive heard of breaking down table sugar into simple sugars before brewing helps with fermentation, i think its called invert sugar

[Nikki]

Wait, carbonation comes from yeast? This whole time, I thought people literally added carbonation to drinks, like with some glorified sodastream.

[malcolminthemetal]

I can’t speak for this exact case, but usually squeezing the bottle will cause at least some CO2 to be drawn out of the liquid to fill the volume before it actually starts pressurizing.

[BlazstabmanPWNZ]

Could be worth trying to use a different sugar, might be harder to come by in Korea but maltose should work well, I know back in the UK Wilko's sells a finishing sugar for bottle carbonation.

Edit, found the product I was referencing, most finishing sugars use dextrose but any sugar should work really.

[sskpsp]

Maybe add some acid eg. lemon juice. I found that helped the yeast carbonate the bottle quicker

[janner]

If you're unhappy with your result, I think if you let it sit for a while it'll turn into apple cider vinegar which could be quite tasty

[Rumade]

It may be easier to run cider through a sodastream, but I'm guessing you wouldn't be able to keep the carbonation in stored bottles then? It would only be good for cider you were going to drink there and then 🤔

[masterhide]

I did this and after a week nothing. I let it go a month and a half and it almost exploded when I opened it. Awesome tiny bubbles. Highly recommend letting it go longer. Or more sugar. These things take more time than you think. Just be careful, sometimes they also get a higher alchohol percentage when you let it go longer. Lol