Lagered cider?

Hi all... I'm very new to homebrewing with only 5 batches under my belt. I disovered 12 gallons of apple cider in the chest freezer over at the farm left over from last year. SWMBO really likes cider (and hates my ipas, or hairspray as she calls them) so I desided to make her some while having an experiment at the same time. I thawed the cider, dumped them into 2 seperate carboys. To both of the batches I added 2.5# brown sugar. I used English Cider yeast in one and American Lager yeast in the other, both from White Labs. I was just wondering if anyone has ever used a lager yeast before and if so, what were their results.

hi have you gone through the sticky at the top of the cider page on juice and yeasts?
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/results-juice-yeast-sugar-experiments-83060/
i couldn't be bothered to check if there are lager yeasts tested but cvillekevin has tested many different yeasts and other conditions.

Ha...did I mention that I'm new to computers too. I don't even know what a sticky is.

A "sticky" is a thread (discussion) on this forum that has been purposely marked so that it "sticks," or always stays at the top of the page. Just look at the section right above all the cider topics and there will be several threads in a section by themselves. The stickies are a wealth of great information--practically a course in homebrewing all by themselves. Good luck!

FatBeagle said:

I was just wondering if anyone has ever used a lager yeast before and if so, what were their results.

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Someone has won the cider category at the National Homebrew Competition using a lager yeast. The recipe is over at the American Homebrewers Association in their forum. What temp are you fermenting at?

It has been bubbling away nicely for 10 days now at 55 degrees.

I doubt this guy came back after his 3 posts, but it'd be nice to hear the results.

I'm curious about this one meself
-Kingboomer