Apple Cider

[homebrewcrew]

Just tasted my first batch of hard apple cider and it was delicious. If anyone is looking for fresh cider year round I got mine at Boates Farm located at the brewery market on saturdays. Great price at 75 cents a liter and a very good product. All you need to do is take in your empty 23 liter fermenting buckets and then the next week they will be filled with fresh cider. Too easy.

Just posting this because anyone who might be thinking of doing cider this is the place to go wouldn't want you to miss out.

[mr x]

So what's your procedure? Or are you drinking the raw 'wort'?

[homebrewcrew]

Nope.
I steeped it for 45 minutes to kill the natural yeast. Then I put it into the carboy and added a champaine yeast to it and air locked it. I let it sit in the carboy until there was almost no activity left in the airlock, then I transfered it to my bucket and added a cup and a quarter of dextrose and bottled it. It sit in the bottles for two weeks at 21C and then I cooled it for drinking.

I have three more batches on now that I have added different amounts of brown sugar to. In the attempt to raise the alcohol content of the cider, also I added some raisin to one of the carboys to see what that did for the taste. Should be interesting.

[erslar00]

When you say steeped do you mean you heated the wort up and let it sit for a bit...? If so what temp and how long? I've been thinking of trying this. How much brown sugar did you add? Did you ever consider adding honey and finally... what was the SG of the wort before adding sugar and after? Thanks,

[sleepyjamie]

thanks for the post. been looking fot make some cider since i last tasted rasps.

[homebrewcrew]

I kept mine around 150-160 degrees for 45 minutes to kill the yeast. I did notice that the cider did come out a bit hazy due to the boil I think. My next batches instead of boiling I am going to try the tablets I beleive they are called camden tablets. They are used to kill the wild yeast in the juice and are sold at noble grape. Also noble grape sells another tablet that can be put in the cider to clear it up as well, all things to exsperiment with. I did not try honey and used brown sugar because I read that in brown sugar there are sugars that do not ferment giving it a bit of a sweet taste when done. Maybe sometime down the road I will try using honey once I do a few more batches. The orignal potential alcohol content without any sugar added was 5%, then for our second baatch we added 1kg of sugar and I beleive it was 7.4%. There are two in the carboys right now that shoulf trun out to be around 10% will let you guys know how they turn out.

[Jimmy]

I've done 1 batch of apple cider before, and all I used was canned apple juice and brown sugar (I forget the amount). I was pretty happy with how it turned out.

[homebrewcrew]

Do you have anymore information about the cider? From what I can tell from you message you tried some apple cider somewhere and it tasted good?

[Graham.C]

Do you have anymore information about the cider? From what I can tell from you message you tried some apple cider somewhere and it tasted good?

I think its spam.

[homebrewcrew]

Ok wasn't sure if it was really bad english or some kind of joke.

[Graham.C]

Ok wasn't sure if it was really bad english or some kind of joke.

Fair, its not uncommon for people post half in the bag.

[steve45ca]

When I make my cider I use store bought apple juice when it's on sale. I find the cans of graves comes out better than the tetra packs, not sure why... but I add 1KG of brown sugar.. comes out around 8% ABV with the natural sugars and I use coopers ale yeast. I find wine / champagne yeast to be too dry. I have a video on youtube on how to make it if I'm allowed to post links

[Jimmy]

When I make my cider I use store bought apple juice when it's on sale. I find the cans of graves comes out better than the tetra packs, not sure why... but I add 1KG of brown sugar.. comes out around 8% ABV with the natural sugars and I use coopers ale yeast. I find wine / champagne yeast to be too dry. I have a video on youtube on how to make it if I'm allowed to post links

Feel free. You can even embed youtube videos when you post. Just put

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[LeafMan66_67]

When I make my cider I use store bought apple juice when it's on sale. I find the cans of graves comes out better than the tetra packs, not sure why... but

I think if you have a look you will find that Graves cans are pure apple juice vs tetra packs that are typically made from concentrate.