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Much like cider apples vs table apples for hard cider or red eating grapes vs say cab sauv or Pinot noir...eating pears offer very little vs Perry pears. perry is very delicate but can bevery flavourful if you are skilled and have the right fruit (either or) and allow the Perry to develop over...

I have an Alicante wine that I've somewhat pushed aside in the cellar. It was started in October 2020 and made from grapes, fermented on the skins. We liked it's aromatic nose and chose to not put it through MLF at the time. I'm now in a position that I need an additional blender carboy (I...

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Yooper....if you had to share what type of wine this tastes like would it be Riesling? Sauv Blanc? Just as a ball park style :). Just trying to get a feel for how it feels on the palate. Trying this real soon

Definitely report back when you taste the fruit with your reviews!

Have you had them fruit? Can you describe the flavour? I have granniwinkle fruiting this year so that’s a treat. Thoughts on Harrison flavour? I’m surprised mine haven’t fruited. Next year I hope.

how did this turn out? How about smoking the apples themselves? (cold short smoke)

I rack over onto whole berries when most fermentation is done. Berries are hard enough to rack out and I don't crush them. Stir or wiggle carboy daily and ensure it's fairly full. Leave two weeks. Rack. Rack again until there's no berry bits. trust me you want those gone.

Perry is gentle and earthy compared to apple cider. I find it rarely if ever tastes of pear - more wine like and earthier. It's subtle and gentle. I like mixing some pear into my apple as it brings some natural sweetness (sorbitol in pears doesn't ferment out). Just has a lovely perry we...

do you have harrison to go with that trio?

Thanks for catching that. Ment you mention it as it was my first thought too. For sure kMeta (and I double checked just to be sure :)

I plan on barrel aging for the better part of a year. I assume that the sulfite flavour will dissipate yes? Is the salty taste for the potassium or the sulfite? I’m have a pretty keen sense of smell. My husband doesn’t really notice it, but offputting to me.

I should mention that the cider was started in September and been aging in oak since feb. 100 ppm of potassium metabisulfite. I’m don’t have my notes with me though (for other details). I will rack off a liter and inject and purge some co2 to see if that helps. Normally 3.75 is way high...

So I messed up in a rather large way. I tend to not add much for sulphite but trialing barrel aging and the word is to keep up the s02 levels. I added 100 PPM (only had residual of 4 when tested). Wanted to add 50ppm, but because it was just racked and new barrel it was suggested 75 ppm as it...

did you add pectic enzyme? Awefully early for it to clear. Was the fruit ripe?

ok - I understand why cider can have rhino farts - temp, low nutrients, yeast selection, yeast health/numbers/stress. I normally do not add kmeta to start a ferment but I'm building 4 yeast starters of WLF 775 and they are 11.00 a shot so I chose to use a sanitized must as it's 55 gallons of...

So the barrel is almost fermented out and the flavour is basically gone. What I did do is add some sugar and it turned things around. I also added some yeast nutrient but that alone didn't seem to do the trick. Guessing it was Ethyl acetate. Tasting fine!!

ok - so this has happened to 3 runs now. Changed lines and cleaned everything but the connectors. Different ciders New c02 fill Bottle was inspected last time and was super clean and shiny inside No change to detergents or sanitizers Photo on the left isn't sparkling clear as I grabbed it this...

The looked in the c02 bottle this time and he said it was sparkling clean. So maybe I’ll ask about the co2 itself. Ya. I’ll post over there.... Thanks

Ok - Odd one. This has been happening since my last keg fill. Clear is dead clear. Beautiful. Sparkling clear. Keg it. It's quite cloudy. Like can't read the headlines through it looking through a champagne flute. I've changed out the lines. Haven't changed sanitizers or cleaners. WTF~...