Wyldjim

Recipes 

Bush_84

Recipes 

I assume that this is a 2 gal recipe. Anybody mind double checking my math and telling me that this is the accurate form of a 6 gal recipe? That seems like a lot of brown sugar for sweeting.

6 gal cider.
1 ½ lbs honey
9 oz molasses
4 ½ lbs brown sugar.
Potassium sorbate

__________________
Primary- Raspberry Melomel - Raspberry Cider
Secondary-Welch Grape Wine - Mapfelwien
Bottled- Mott's Cider - Strawberry Mead - Hard Lemonade - The 84 Bushwacker (~11 abv cider) -Mixed Berry Cider - Graff
-The 84 Bushwacker v2.0

flyweed

Recipes 

NO..thats wrong...

6 gallons cider
1 1/2 pounds of honey
9 oz molasses
Pot. Sorbate
4 1/2 CUPS of Brown sugar...NOT POUNDS

__________________
5 gal secondary: Strawberry Mead
1 gallon secondary: Blood orange Mead
1 gallon secondary: Grape Mead
On Tap: Blackberry Blonde Ale
On Tap: Apple/Cherry Hard Cider

cbrychcy

Recipes 

Hey guys just to clear up a question I had
I was planning on making twice as much so I was going to double the recipe
I was going to let the cider ferment for about a week in the primary and then siphon into secondary since i plan on bottling instead of kegging will I still need to add the potassium sorbate? This is my third homebrew very excited about the cider my finance wont get off my ass basically i guess I'm looking for a more defined step by step with time frames and instead of kegging what I would need to do for bottling, Sorry for the newb questions thanks for any help you guys rock!!!!

flyweed

Recipes 

just follow the OP directions..10 days in primary...add your K-meta and let sit another 10 days. Then bottle. you don't necessarily need the brown sugar...it is plenty sweet without it. I just did a new batch of this. was at 11 days yesterday, when I racked it off the lee's and added my bisulphite...and my OG was at 1.010..and it was very good. I may just add some cinnamon extract to spice it up just a bit and call it good.

the Salfale so4 is a great yeast for this one....if you want it it drier then backsweeten using sweet mead yeast or other.

Dan

__________________
5 gal secondary: Strawberry Mead
1 gallon secondary: Blood orange Mead
1 gallon secondary: Grape Mead
On Tap: Blackberry Blonde Ale
On Tap: Apple/Cherry Hard Cider

jmorriso

Recipes 

Just started up a 5 gallon batch of this last night. Only change is I threw in a cinnamon stick to the juice we heated on the stove and then dropped it in the fermenter with the honey/juice/molasses mixture. It was fermenting steadily within a couple hours. Here is what we used:

-24 oz honey (We measured out 20oz which would be the correct amount according to recipe, but there was just a little bit left in the container so we just used all of it)
-7.5 oz molasses
-1 cinnamon stick
-5 gallons Always Save brand Apple Juice (3 qt jugs were on sale for $1.50 each)
-1 packet salfale s-04
-5 tsp. potassium-sorbate
-7.5 to 8 cups brown sugar and apple juice mixture for back sweetening

I plan on siphoning onto the p-sorbate in a couple weeks, then back sweetening a week later. Then moving it to the keg a week or so after that. I've only got a single tap keg and its in use, so it'll have some conditioning time before I'm able to fully hook it up and start drinking it.

I've got 2 thoughts:
1. I've got lots of juice left (bought 10 gallons, planning on making this and edworts, but then realized I didn't have enough carboy space!) so I was thinking about back sweetening with a juice and brown sugar mix instead of water. Anyone see a problem there?

2. When I let this condition in the keg should I go ahead and apply co2 and let it carb, or should I leave it still until right before I'm ready to start drinking? Or is there any difference?

3. What psi do you keg it at?

rpg

Recipes 

I kegged a similar batch of cider under 12 PSI at 40 degrees F, and that worked out well for my tastes.

400d

Recipes 

can I bottle carbonate this? what is the recommended level of carbonation for cider?

if I carbonate in bottles I assume I should add some yeast before bottling? am I right?

__________________
Brew me a river...

codeblue2k

Recipes 

I haven't tried this recipe, but from other replies it looks like you can. You just wouldn't add the brown sugar. I would assume that after letting it sit for another 10 days in the secondary, you would rack it and add follow the same steps for bottling any other beer, bottling sugar. Am I right?

Is there anything we can use to replace the brown sugar, so we can keep the sweetness up?

__________________
Planed: Looking for a good Cider recipe
Primary: Empty
Secondary: Empty
Bottled: Pumpkin Ale

Keged: No kegging system yet... someday

Old_E

Recipes 

This stuff is awesome. Wish I had brewed 4-5 gallons. SWMBO wants more!

Finding juice with no preservatives is always a problem.