Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Nottingham
Yeast Starter: none
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Original Gravity: 1.086
Final Gravity: 1.002
Boiling Time (Minutes): none
Color: light amber
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 30 days
Additional Fermentation: bottle conditioned with 16ozs of apple concentrate for 21 days
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 30 days
Tasting Notes: Retianed very full apple flavor. Nicely carbonated.

This was my first attempt at a cider. I think it came out very tasty so I thought I would share the recipe.

A lot of the sugar fortified ciders taste too dry/hot for me so I thought I would attempt to build a cider that had some kick but did not use any sugar to boost SG. I accomplished this by using pure juice and sweetening it with concentrate. I also used concentrate for carbonation.

Recipe:
4 gallons, treetop apple juice
8 16oz cans treetop concentrate.
Carbonate with 16oz treetop concentrate

This created a cider that still retained a lot of apple flavor and does not taste real boozy. The 30 days in secondary probably help this quite a bit as well.

I just finished my first glass and I believe I will have another. That may be a little dangerous though.