I have actually tried this with a few small tweaks. Its nowhere near strongbow dark fruit but its not bad. I chose not to carbonate it and the starting gravity was 1.057 and ended up as 1.000. I added 2tsp of sugar to each 650ml bottle to sweeten. I would recommend this for a cheap little...
I picked up some great tips from this forum. Going to ditch the kits and just use my press. The only thing I will invest in is an apple pulper as the food processor method for pulping is a long winded way of doing things.
it hasn’t increased today. The other one has stopped fermenting after 5 days, is this normal
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the hydrometer reading is perfect for bottling. Tasted some and it’s quite dry with a good taste of apples. Going to carbonate some and have some flat. just going to leave it an extra day the...
I normally brew my cider from a kit but I was given a press and a load of Apple so I thought i would give it a go. I got roughly 2 gallons of freshly squeezed apple juice which was strained and a crushed campdem tablet added to each. Everything was sterilised. 24 hours later i added Lalvin -...