thisgoestoeleven
Well-Known Member
I got married this summer, and we finally moved into a decent-sized place from our crappy studio, and so we're having Christmas with our families at our place for the first time. I want to have something on tap for it, but between moving, work, etc I haven't had enough time to get my brewing stuff set up for the new kitchen (longer tubing for wort chiller now that the stove's no longer next to the sink, making sure the stove in the new place can handle a full volume boil, etc), so that leaves cider. The trouble is, I've heard that ciders take much longer than most beers to be ready to drink. The recipe I was planning was as follows:
5gal apple cider (from a local orchard)
1# brown sugar
(not sure what yeast, something simple and clean like US-05)
Primary for 3 weeks
Keg and force carb for ~3 days
Tap Christmas day
Will this produce drinkable, good-tasting cider, or am I setting myself up for failure with only 3 weeks of fermentation?
5gal apple cider (from a local orchard)
1# brown sugar
(not sure what yeast, something simple and clean like US-05)
Primary for 3 weeks
Keg and force carb for ~3 days
Tap Christmas day
Will this produce drinkable, good-tasting cider, or am I setting myself up for failure with only 3 weeks of fermentation?