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@Olly398, you're right, I should have bottled it up in the spring. But it got stuck and was fermenting really slowly so I just left it in the barrel. A couple of months ago after reading Andrew Lea's great book http://www.cider.org.uk/book.html on cider making I decided I needed to add some yiest nutrients. I did that it started fermenting away fine. I racked it off about 6 weeks ago with some extra sugar solution just to bump up the alcohol content and now it's fine to bottle if a bit cloudy.
Anyway, to answer your question I've been keeping it in one of these under a air lock full of gin
http://www.vigopresses.co.uk/Catalogue/Fermentation-Containers/30-litre-Standard-Fermenter-airlock-92600
what do you use? Do you use desert apples? I've neverhad any problems with them sticking just cider apples.