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I am leaning toward a temperature problem. I keep my carboys covered to keep out light and in a dark corner but the room's ambient temperature can fluctuate as much as 10 degrees. The iffy bottles were fermented during a heat wave and probably contributed to the problem. Does that make sense?

I am having VERY uneven results when bottling. The beer smells great, tastes great though flat coming out of the secondary fermenter and it is right at target as to final gravity. I bottle it and some bottles are perfect, some are very sweet and a very few have the cider flavor. This is out of the s...