temperture after bottleing cider

2smiggy

have just bottle our cider in 500 ml coopers plastic bottles and added 1 carbonation tablet to each bottle. just wondering at what temperature we should store the cider. hope to drink it in about 2 -3 weeks.

thanks in advance, had a quick look through the forum but could not find a fast answer

evolving_doors

Anything between 20-25degrees to help with cabonation/priming for about 2 weeks or so then around 17 degrees from there on in..

Sonovagun

Out of interest what would happen if the bottles were kept at 20-25 degress after two week?

BeerNut

Fermentation is fermentation: it doesn't matter a whole lot what stage of the process you're at, the temperature requirements will be the same. With cider, anything in the 18-23 range is fine for all stages.

Sonovagun

After I bottled some lager, ale and cider I left them under a bed beside a radiator. Will this have effected them at all? There were all bottled at different dates ranging from 2 weeks ago to 2 months.

BeerNut

Sonovagun wrote: »

Will this have effected them at all?

Open a bottle and see.

Mantel

Storage and temperature is an interesting subject when it comes to beer. Interesting for some people at least.

The guys that run the Basic Brewing podcast did an experiment with a mag called Brew Your Own on this recently. For the mp3 of it -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/basicbrewing/bbr12-02-10aging.mp3

Each made a batch of beer and stored it in three different temperature area's to see if it would effect taste. One was the attic, one was the basement and the other was in a fridge.

Have a listen for the results but basically the attic beer was the worst one but most of the temperatures the beer got exposed to where quite high, just as you'd expect from an attic during a hot summer.