Show us your cider in a photo!!!

I'll go first.

Plum cider and apple/peach cider.
All hand juiced with a kitchen aid type juicer.... Never doing that again....

The first one is the start of my cranberry-apple one gallon batch. The second is of the same cider, finished. Turned out good.
My Carmel apple is in a blue container, so no good picture there....

5 gallon batch 50% Burgundy, 30% Newtown Pippin, 20% Paula Red. Hand picked and self pressed. Juicing can suck but having control over the blend is everything. Fermenting at around ~60 right now.

LeBreton said:

5 gallon batch 50% Burgundy, 30% Newtown Pippin, 20% Paula Red. Hand piked and self pressed. Juicing can suck but having control over the blend is everything. Fermenting at around ~60 right now.

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Nice improvised temp control system you got there

Day 2. Simplicity. Just 5 gallons of store bought juice, a pound or so of Domino, and a pitch of S-04. Will back sweeten with a frozen concentrate, stabilize with Potassium Sorbate, and keg it up! Shoulda started it 6 weeks ago. Kicked the last keg in a matter of weeks.

A sampling of my cyser:



My 2 gallon sized batches of no sugar added cider (with my 6 gallons of cyser in the background)



My black cherry apple wine:

Here is the last of my blackberry-apple cider

Greetings! Thought i'd show ny cider. It is on day two, 5 gallons of fresh local cider, Lalvin EC-1118 yeast, 1 cup of dark sugar and 3 cups of white sugar, Sailor Jerry Rum in the air lock.

It has a nice krautsen on top, and a wonderful aroma. Air lock is bubbling every 5 sec. Temp is around 69. Didn't check sg, will wait till it stops popping.

Pineapple cider using agave nectar and honey, just started this morning....

Bottled this one today. It's a cherry pomegranate cider.



Put this one together after bottling the one above. This one I'm going to dry hop with cascade or willamette.

sirmichael said:

This one I'm going to dry hop with cascade or willamette.

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it's none of my business, but have you had a cascade cider before? i tried one once, two sips and right down the drain with it. absolutely disgusting. that said, there are no absolutes in this business. so- carry on! but if you haven't tried it before, i would hop a small bit first just to make sure...

dinnerstick said:

it's none of my business, but have you had a cascade cider before? i tried one once, two sips and right down the drain with it. absolutely disgusting. that said, there are no absolutes in this business. so- carry on! but if you haven't tried it before, i would hop a small bit first just to make sure...

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I have not. I searched here about dry hopping cider and the majority of what I've found was to use a low alpha hop with good aroma. Is it something specific about cascade hops or is is dry hopping cider in general for you?

for me hops and apples simply don't work together. i say cascade specifically because of the above mentioned highly memorable experience of a cascade cider. actually it was cascade late hopped graff. but some people apparently love hops in cider; i don't know who's nuts, them or me. probably a bit of both

My pear cider, Mangrove Jack kit with added preservative free pear halves in juice, extra 1/2 kilo of brew sugar, some yeast nutrient not to mention having a crack using the krausen collar (after the airlock set up had a slow leak at the tap). The brew started bubbling within hours before I had to change vessel. First cider ever, first brew of any kind in 6 years...

Dry cider champagne on the left 6 Gal, Cran Ras Cider in the middle (Not cran juice mix) 5 Gal, Semi-sweet cyser on the right 6.5 Gal

This was from last year, I wait until the first frost to get my cider, ups the OG by quite a bit, by November it's like candy.

Strawberry before

and after

Cider on the left, mead on the right.

Cider is a blend of apples I picked and juiced (Cortland, Jonathan, Spigold, Fuju, Crab.) My first attempt at cider- hopefully it's tasty.

There's a lot of sediment/pulp that has settled out. At some point I'll have to rack off that stuff and add a lot more juice to top it off.

My little Wal-Mart beauty:



MC

Pulled a sample of cider with Trappist Ale yeast last night

caburdet78 said:

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Pulled a sample of cider with Trappist Ale yeast last night

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I'm sorry :cross: something about this pic makes me think urine sample hahaha I think it's the cup it's in, I was in health care for eight or nine years in geriatric nursing I couldn't drink apple juice for years . Haha anyhow please don't take offense! My cider made with unfiltered apple juice looked exactly the same

My 2011 cider made with fresh cider I pressed and Lavlin EC-1118. It's very dry. This year I'm going to try Graff.



Here's my home made scratter (from an In-Sink-Erator)



and press

Holy crap! I want to build my own pressing equipment now! Very nice.

Peruvian said:

My 2011 cider made with fresh cider I pressed and Lavlin EC-1118. It's very dry. This year I'm going to try Graff.

Here's my home made scratter (from an In-Sink-Erator)

and press

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Epic first post. Let me show you to the DIY forum

Here's a glass of my caramel apple cider... in fact, I am enjoying it right now.

Apple/strawberry cider, very, very refreshing.



My oatey apple cinnamon

Another cider, forgot which flavor.

HAREEBROWNBEEST said:

Apple/strawberry cider, very, very refreshing.

My oatey apple cinnamon

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Love what the oats did for the head retention!

Thanks, it's tasty, got just 1 left

Thanks for the kind words hunter and bbomber. I love DIY projects and this was an easy one. I've been pressing cider for about 4 years and make 20-25 gallons per year. About 10 gallons make it to the fermenter. The rest remains as juice.

That's pretty, picture perfect cider.

Enjoying some now. Strawberry apple. At first I wasn't to impressed with the additions of the berries, now a month or so later I'm glad I did👍

My latest creation. A sparkling peach flavored apple cider. Not much peach flavor but a very smooth tasting cider. I like it!

Apple and berry cider. Apple and pear juice 14.4L plus apple and blackcurrant 4.8L juice plus apple and forest fruits juice 3L. 1.25 kg of dextrose, 450 g of maltodextrin, EC1118 yeast & nutrient...
OG - 1070




After 2 days...

Left with corn sugar and right with regular sugar. (Running a test)

Wooly mammoth cider. Look in the cider thread for the process...

snortwheeze said:

Wooly mammoth cider. Look in the cider thread for the process...

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Nothing's coming up. Link?

Cider before, during and now
Gonna brew a stout this wx and another batch of Upstate Mike Caramel Apple Cider!