using apple juice?

[Hunter]

I'm about to put a cider on, and was gonna add a couple of litres of apple juice, only to get home and realise I'd bought juice that was reconstituted... is this ok to use?

[Bizier]

The Berri brand stuff has no preservatives to damage the yeast, which is why people choose it. It is also 99.99% (or thereabouts) reconstituted apple juice. I am going to ferment about 20L of the stuff in a few minutes.

It is not going to be as good as a fresh juice from freshly picked apples, but it will make cider.

I'd say, and it is only because of what others have said here, that just watch out for the preservatives.

[Hunter]

this is Berri fruit juice drink, ingrediants are

water, reconstituted aple juice (35%), sugar, food acid (330), vitamin c, flavour, colour (150d)
I have four litres of this, and a 2 litre bottle of Berri apple and pear. was just gonna replace 6 litres of water with all this juice, what do ya reckon?

[Bizier]

Are you talking about a kit + juice VS a kit + water?

go the juice whatever the circumstance IMO

[timmy]

I recently put down a cider using 12L of Berri apple juice (reconstituted) + the Wyeast cider strain and it tastes bloody nice out of the fermenter.