What types of artificial sweetener are normally used in fruit cider in the UK & US?

Since yeast will generally eat any sugar you add to your must/cider, adding sugar for sweetness in home-brewing isn't really an option unless you get more elaborate and pasteurise, etc. So artificial sweeteners are the obvious option to allow bottle-conditioned sparkling cider with sensible ABV and a nice level of sweetness... especially the modern trend of sweet "fruit ciders".

But what artificial sweeteners are commonly used and easily purchased? There are so many used commercially and some have noticeable flavour (in a bad way) to different people... for instance my wife loves Sprite Zero and Coke Zero but finds other diet sodas have a nasty after-taste from sweeteners.

What sweeteners make sense for home-brewing, and what are their pros/cons? How should I choose which one to use?

They need to be non-fermentable

Topic sweetness cider homebrew

Category Mac

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Personally I find alternative sweeteners to be rather nasty, and they all leave some sort of unfamiliar and distasteful after taste.

Is there a reason you don't want to use sorbitol? I can understand if you don't, but what makes artificial sweeteners more desirable Than sorbates?

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I would recommend experimenting on your own on a per-bottle basis. Maybe swipe the yellow, pink, and blue packets from the local diner and sacrifice some bottles of your next batch to science? That way you don't have to rely on the anonymous people of the internet to determine your fate. Choose your own path :)

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Here are some sweeteners you can get on the line in the UK:

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