Reddit mentions of Youngs Auto Siphon Short 5 Litre - Home brew Beer & Wine Making Syphon

Well you can technically drink your cider once fermentation is finished but aging can make it taste WAY better. A couple of weeks/months in bottles can improve the taste but yes you can drink it right after it's finished fermenting to its potential!

I'd recommend you buy an auto siphon as it limits the exposure to oxygen when transferring between vessels and when bottling.

[Here's a link on amazon to what I'm talking about] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/9q9/Home-Brew-Litre-Auto-Syphon-More-Sucking/B004KM4NHK/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1494891146&sr=8-1&keywords=auto+siphon)

Also if bottling this attachment makes life easy going from bottle to bottle

Now to carbonate the sugar is added to allow for a secondary fermentation. Once primary fermentation is done (aka the yeast ate up nearly all of the starting sugar and is now dormant) this new addition of sugar that is added before bottling causes the yeast to wake back up and start reproducing again. Well if this happens in the bottle the CO2 gas that's released has nowhere to go and will reabsorb into your beverage creating the lovely bubbles that you want in carbonated drinks.

I typically use Dextrose aka Corn Sugar. You can use really any type of sugar but I like dextrose because it's fairly flavor neutral and is very fermentable. Plain table sugar works just fine though.

Here's a link to a handy calculator to give you an idea of how much of different sugars you should use to get the carbonation level you want

Generally speaking I use roughly 1 oz of dextrose per 1 fluid gallon which when converted to metric (sorry I'm from murica lol) would be roughly 28 grams per 3.8 liters? So you can scale it from there to whatever batch size you have or use the calculator I gave you.

I'd say patience is key with making cider so don't be afraid to let it sit at least 3 weeks to even a month before you bottle it.

Unfortunately never tried making a ginger beer but maybe I'll do it one of these days! I do love ginger beer.

Like I said just let me know if you have any more questions :)