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From: nelson@cvl.UUCP (Randal Nelson)
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Subject: Re: (Hard) apple cider
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> Hard apple cider is nice but any cider that sat around in our house
> always went to vinegar, not some semi-alcoholic beverage?  Any tips
> on how to get this reaction to happen properly.
> 

To keep the cider from going to vinegar you have to exclude oxygen.
Sometimes just keeping a cap loosely on the bottle will work.
A more sophisticated method is to use a cork and a piece of rubber
tube, and bubble the CO2 out through a glass of water.
To get any sort of potency, you also have to add extra sugar in some form.


Randal Nelson