Irn bru turbo cider

[Mcshagger]

Hi I'm brewing irn bru cider in a dj but it's been on a week and still no bubbling sugars just sitting in the demijohn I've boiled the irn bru so it was flat any ideas?

[Jim]

First off, welcome to the forum.

I'm going to move this from the Guestbook forum to the Cider Making forum as you're more likely to get an answer there - in the meantime it's worth checking the basics - have a look at this page (though it's written for beer wort, you can apply it to any fermentation).

[oldbloke]

The boiling isn't to make it flat, it's to get rid of the preservatives. In the case of Irn Bru, that's sodium benzoate. It's a fairly stable molecule, the boiling point of Irn Bru may not be enough to denature it. You can try making a starter yeast colony so that when you pitch you overpower it by sheer weight of numbers, maybe

[Mcshagger]

I just added brewing sugar to the batch 6 hours ago and its started fermenting so it smells not bad so hopefully it will turn out right