Pitching cider onto WL 530 yeast cake

Hey all,

So I brewed up an abbey pale ale (my first AG!) using WL 530 and I've heard some good things about fermenting cider with belgian yeast. I'm thinking about just pouring in 5 gallons of juice/cider and maybe some brown sugar on top of the cake.

My real question is whether or not the trub will affect the taste at all negatively.

Then again, people have said good things about graff which has a bit of malt and hop flavor to it anyway...

the recipe i used btw consists of:

6 # belgian pale
2# light munich
1# vienna
1.5 oz Hallertau at 60 mins (3.7%)
.75 oz "" at 15 ""
.75 oz "" at 5 ""


Cheers!

Belgian yeasts in cider are interesting. I don't like 'em but the ladies seem to dig it. they turn out very floral, and sometimes throw off esters that they don't in beer. Oh, and they take forever to mellow.

In general I don't do ciders with belgian yeasts anymore, too strange. but if you want, go for it.