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Hi I made cider from home grown apples which I pressed my self. I used youghs cider yeast and did a 2 week primary, a 1 week secondary and then bottled it for 2 weeks.
I knew it was not going to taste great after only 2 weeks botteling but it really was horrid. Tasted like gone off apple juice (which cider kind of is) mixed with a bit of dry white wine - but it was just not a pleasant taste.
Does freshed press turbo cider normal taste like this after 2 weeks of botteling and I just need to wait or have I done something wrong.
(I did get a couple of other people to try it and they said it was horrid but could not say what it tasted like)
I have a 5 gallon batch of Gaff going so I have higher hopes for that, I think one thing it could be is the apple juice I pressed tasted very tart and not like store brought apple juice but I just assumed this is what it would taste like... As the apples were not fully ripe which I feel they are now so may go for 1 more batch of gaff and one batch of totally natural cider (i.e no yeast added and just wait a long time)
I knew it was not going to taste great after only 2 weeks botteling but it really was horrid. Tasted like gone off apple juice (which cider kind of is) mixed with a bit of dry white wine - but it was just not a pleasant taste.
Does freshed press turbo cider normal taste like this after 2 weeks of botteling and I just need to wait or have I done something wrong.
(I did get a couple of other people to try it and they said it was horrid but could not say what it tasted like)
I have a 5 gallon batch of Gaff going so I have higher hopes for that, I think one thing it could be is the apple juice I pressed tasted very tart and not like store brought apple juice but I just assumed this is what it would taste like... As the apples were not fully ripe which I feel they are now so may go for 1 more batch of gaff and one batch of totally natural cider (i.e no yeast added and just wait a long time)