Can I make cider from cheap store Apple Juice? - Page 2

**rico567** · 08-16-2009, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandon O

No, it won't, it will still taste like white wine. That wine yeast is going to shred anything you put in there, it will be dry and very thin. Make some Graff, you will be so happy you did. For any who have tried it, it starts getting chain brewed.

The first part of this statement is completely demonstrated by the apfelwein I made in June and tasted Friday after 6 weeks in the bottle. I, too, used cheap apple juice and the Pasteur champagne yeast, and the resulting beverage, although it's not that dry yet, can be perfectly characterized as "very thin." As for the second part, well, my Graff isn't quite finished yet.....bottling this next week.

HiGravShawn · 08-19-2009, 05:12 PM

The ole lady likes this apple white wine we've had so I am going to make a hybrid by creating a 2 gallon batch of concentrated graff using the backup pack of champagne yeast, DME, and 1/2 oz of Cluster and then mix it in to my primary. If it kills too much of the flavor I'm just going to add some apple or other extract at bottling to attempt getting it close to a flavored wine if not cider'y enough.

jevchance · 08-19-2009, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by HiGravShawn

The ole lady likes this apple white wine we've had so I am going to make a hybrid by creating a 2 gallon batch of concentrated graff using the backup pack of champagne yeast, DME, and 1/2 oz of Cluster and then mix it in to my primary. If it kills too much of the flavor I'm just going to add some apple or other extract at bottling to attempt getting it close to a flavored wine if not cider'y enough.

So half Graff and half Apfelwein?

HiGravShawn · 08-19-2009, 05:37 PM

Pretty much

jevchance · 08-19-2009, 05:44 PM

I like it. Let us know how it turns out!