I want to bottle a sweet cider with carbonation. In every process to achieve this one step is to pasteurize the bottles in a pot of hot water, kept to a specific temperature after the bottles have the carbonation level you desire. Can you do this heating process on bottles laying on their sides? Can they be stacked, even with a rag between the layers?

I'm an experienced Beer home brewer, but I've never done a Cider and would like to try. I've bought natural pressed apple juice from a farm near me, it's free of preservatives, and thus is chilled to be drunk soon. It's reasonably sweet (not tart) and may already have sugar added for sweetness. It's very clear clean apple juice and awesome to drink. I've bought CBC-1 Yeast and some Nutrivin Yeast nutrient for the fermentation. I'm most worried about contaminants …

I finnish my beer its fully carbonated and bottled on 22 oz bottles (co2 comes from priming sugar) now.. can start the pasteurization process ? or that only will work with forced carbonation beer ? thanks

Just made an experimental batch of chocolate braggot. About 60% various grain and 40% honey, OG 1.069, Safale S-04 yeast. We like to have some sweetness as well as mid-high carbonation in the final results hence wondering if there's a safe way to backsweet it (preferably with honey, not non-fermentables like lactose) yet keep the fizzy part of it? Controlled pasteurisation perhaps?

Anyone ever made Damson cordial ? I am very new to making cordials and as I have a high yield of damsons usually, I am just trying to see if cordial is an option rather than just wine and liqueur, but I am not getting it right clearly. I have so far made two batches, but I am trying to stop it fermenting. First batch, I just made and bottled into plastic bottles. Bubbles appeared in the bottles pretty much …

I never aged mead before, I usually just let them finish the fermentation, back-sweet with honey, bottle and drink in a few days/weeks. I make my mead in glass bottles of 750ml, 1L and 1.5L (I don't have a big carboy, they are very expensive here). I have a 1.5 L that I wish to age for a year to test. My question are: Is 1 year aging a good starting point? Should I rack it before aging? If yes, …