Pith
Well-Known Member
The following will be my second cider, so I'm still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed about being ridiculously experimental. The first cider I did was 2:1:1 juiced Gala, Sundowner and Granny Smith, but I decided I wanted more than 4 litres of cider so I dumped in 9 litres of store bought juice. It tastes better than Strongbow/5 Seeds cider, but not much.
Anyway, so I was thinking that I could make a nice, dry cider with sweet (Fuji, Sundowner, Gala) and acidic (Granny Smith, Jonathon) apples, then when it's fermented to dryness, I would do a practise bottle using bottling sugar as recommended for a specific bottle size (ie 2 teaspoons for a 750mL bottle or whatever it may be) somewhere on the internet, then test gravity of the sugared solution, then to the rest of the cider in the bottling bucket I would add the juice of an aromatic kind of apples until the gravity was at a corresponding level, then bottle it. The aroma would be saved because it can't escape the bottle, right?
It seems like such a nice idea. From what I can gather, a dry aromatic cider is "out of style" with regards to BJCP guidelines. Not that it matters since I'm Australian and probably won't be entering any competitions anyway, but I can't imagine why such a nice idea is "out of style".
Anyway, so I was thinking that I could make a nice, dry cider with sweet (Fuji, Sundowner, Gala) and acidic (Granny Smith, Jonathon) apples, then when it's fermented to dryness, I would do a practise bottle using bottling sugar as recommended for a specific bottle size (ie 2 teaspoons for a 750mL bottle or whatever it may be) somewhere on the internet, then test gravity of the sugared solution, then to the rest of the cider in the bottling bucket I would add the juice of an aromatic kind of apples until the gravity was at a corresponding level, then bottle it. The aroma would be saved because it can't escape the bottle, right?
It seems like such a nice idea. From what I can gather, a dry aromatic cider is "out of style" with regards to BJCP guidelines. Not that it matters since I'm Australian and probably won't be entering any competitions anyway, but I can't imagine why such a nice idea is "out of style".