cotes de blanc yeast or champagne?

Sean from New Hampshire · Nov 25, 2008

I have a gallon of pressed cider from my local apple orchard, and 1 packets of cotes de blanc yeast and 1 packet of champagne yeast. Any chances I can get a good cider out of this? Any advice?

Sean

RugenBrau · Nov 25, 2008

Sure you are. I use Cotes des Blanc all the time. It does ferment out very dry. Whether or not it is good is going to depend on what your taste is and what your looking for. Go ahead and do it. If it is to dry you can always backsweeten it. I would also suggest campden tablets, pectin enzyme, and a hydrometer.

Austinhomebrew · Nov 25, 2008

For cider I recommend beer yeast. Wine yeast will ferment everything. Cote des Blanc will be dry for beer but a little sweet for wine. Champagne will be way too dry. Beer yeast will still be crisp but just a hint of sweetness like beer. Much better results. Nottingham will do.

Forrest

BigKahuna · Nov 25, 2008

Austinhomebrew said:
For cider I recommend beer yeast. Wine yeast will ferment everything. Cote des Blanc will be dry for beer but a little sweet for wine. Champagne will be way too dry. Beer yeast will still be crisp but just a hint of sweetness like beer. Much better results. Nottingham will do.

Forrest

I will Let ya know what I think about that! I have Notty in a batch of fresh pressed apple juice right now. It just stopped bubbling today.

Sean from New Hampshire · Nov 26, 2008

Thanks everyone! I'm having a hard time getting to my Local Home brew place, but I'm itching to ferment something! Guess I should hold off just a little for qualities sake...

Sean From NH

Tenchiro · Nov 26, 2008

I have used Cotes De Blanc in a lot of batches and it does make a good hard cider but my last batch I used some US-04 and the results were very nice. There is still quite a bit of residual sweetness, cotes de blanc always left my ciders with a floral quality rather than a generic sweetness. The US-04 is more of a sweet flavor with some apple still left in the nose.

tiko · Nov 28, 2008

i used cotes de blanc myself. took a hydro reading on the 10th day and it went form 1.070 to 1.002. tasted like champagne though with i little apple flavor. next time ill use nottingham.

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