corvus
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Just finished mixing my first batch of cider...first time brewing anything! After reading through everyone's posts and gathering several recipes, I settled on something similar to this :
12 liters of unpasteurized apple cider
7.5 liters of apple juice (from frozen concentrate: apple juice, water, ascorbic acid)
2 kg dark brown sugar (raw cane sugar + molassas)
1 kg of clover honey
2 packages of Lavin EC-1118 yeast
I threw the unpasteurized cider in the carboy. I warmed each batch of reconstituted juice on the stove to bathtub temps mixing in the sugar and honey, then funneling it into the carboy. I rehydrated the yeast and pitched it in. Added water to the neck of the carboy. I gave it a good stir, and checked the specific gravity...1.0069. Put the airlock on.
Bubbling a bit already...
12 liters of unpasteurized apple cider
7.5 liters of apple juice (from frozen concentrate: apple juice, water, ascorbic acid)
2 kg dark brown sugar (raw cane sugar + molassas)
1 kg of clover honey
2 packages of Lavin EC-1118 yeast
I threw the unpasteurized cider in the carboy. I warmed each batch of reconstituted juice on the stove to bathtub temps mixing in the sugar and honey, then funneling it into the carboy. I rehydrated the yeast and pitched it in. Added water to the neck of the carboy. I gave it a good stir, and checked the specific gravity...1.0069. Put the airlock on.
Bubbling a bit already...