After a week in the bottle, the cider was carbonated enough to pass as sparkling.
My handy dandy carbonation alert system worked like a charm. It regained its original shape:
If you want to see what it look like before it carbonated, take a look at the cider bottling post.
After a few hours in the fridge, it was ready for Thanksgiving dinner. My target audience thought it was much, much better than my first attempt at making cider two years ago.
It was a bit cloudy in the glass but the bottles that didn’t make it out of the fridge have started to clear up. I’ll post a photo of a glass later.
There isn’t much left. I did put some in 12 ounce bottles for competitions so I will need to pasteurize them at some point. The rest will be gone soon.
boothsbrewing
Interesting project. I know some truckers who have similar bottles, but it is not cider.