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TimpanogosSlim · 08-31-2012, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by FuzzeWuzze

You wont see any krausen with this yeast. It will just look like its heavily carbonated, you should see tons of little bubbles coming up..you may get a small layer of bubbles around the rim of your conical and some bunches floating at the top but nothing like we see with beer....

Same with the Champagne yeast from Red Star, except the bubbles are tiny.

Well, premier cuvee did cause my apfelwein to clog the airlock with krausen in the first 24 hours, but I had very little head space.

Justintoxicated · 09-01-2012, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by HBrew71

It has been five months since I started a batch. Followed the original recipe. Finally opened a bottle today. It is fantastic!

Starting another batch tomorrow. On that note ... has anybody here tried Côte des Blancs yeast? How did it come out?

My friend did this and it came out great... Much better than the Montrachet that I'm using and he used in his first batch. I will be doing that for my next batch.

Vox · 09-01-2012, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by HBrew71

It has been five months since I started a batch. Followed the original recipe. Finally opened a bottle today. It is fantastic!

Starting another batch tomorrow. On that note ... has anybody here tried Côte des Blancs yeast? How did it come out?

Is it still super white wine like or did it mellow? If so, how long did you have it in the primary?

**HBrew71** · 09-01-2012, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Justintoxicated

My friend did this and it came out great... Much better than the Montrachet that I'm using and he used in his first batch. I will be doing that for my next batch.

Great! I was hoping that that would be the case. Thank You!

**HBrew71** · 09-01-2012, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Vox

Is it still super white wine like or did it mellow? If so, how long did you have it in the primary?

It is not super white wine like. At around 3 months, when I bottled it, it was very wine like. after 2 months in the bottle the apple flavor has come through quite a bit. Really good now.

**HBrew71** · 09-01-2012, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Vox

Is it still super white wine like or did it mellow? If so, how long did you have it in the primary?

Forgot to mention ....

It was in a Better Bottle carboy a month. Then I racked it to a glass carboy where it aged two months. It was probably not necessary to move it to secondary. Next time I will start and keep in a glass carboy for 3+ months.

Vox · 09-01-2012, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by HBrew71

Forgot to mention ....

It was in a Better Bottle carboy a month. Then I racked it to a glass carboy where it aged two months. It was probably not necessary to move it to secondary. Next time I will start and keep in a glass carboy for 3+ months.

I'll have to make another batch. I only had mine in the carboy for six weeks before I bottled several weeks ago.

**BrewerBear** · 09-01-2012, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by snaps10

Interested to see if this works. Personally I think I would have used brown sugar for more of a caramel flavor, maybe even gone a little nuts and popped in a little bit of hersheys bar, but I'm crazy like that. Anxiously awaiting your results. I think a caramel apfelwein flavor would be killer in the fall.

This is on my agenda to mix up. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/caramel-apple-hard-cider-292770/

Dkshep · 09-04-2012, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by chipsmcghee

About a week ago I made some Apfelwein with 4lbs of sugar instead of two. It was an accident. I am using EC1118 yeast. Can anyone tell me if the EC1118 can power through 4lbs of sugar in a 5 gallon carboy before reaching its alcohol tolerance or will I end up with super sugary, undrinkable stuff? I am hoping to taste this experiment around the first week of October.

I did mine with three pounds of sugar and ec1118. Let it sit six weeks then bottled. Still came out very dry. But like everyone has said the longer it sits the better it gets. Mine wasn't sugary at all.

ypbradford · 09-04-2012, 04:02 PM

I tried this and got good results but very very dry. I am a huge Apfelwein fan after living in Germany for a couple of years, so although I like the way my batch turned out it seemed to be missing the tartness of Frankfurter Apfelwein. I talked with the guys at my local brew store and they told me that the tartness would need to come from the juice. So I am going to try an experiment. . . I have some jonathon apples just getting ripe and I am going to juice them and try a mix of fresh juice along with the bottled stuff (I don't have the bushels of apples necessary to produce 5 gallons of juice). Hopefully this will boost the tartness I am striving for.

Any thoughts?

Also could anyone suggest how much additional sugar to add - for example how much sugar is in the bottled juice; if I use a 2:3 ratio two gallons tart juice to three gallons bottled juice, how much more sugar should I add to get the fermentation I want?