angrysparrow
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Hey everyone,
Friday afternoon I put together a batch of what I hope will become Cranberry Cider.
Ingredients:
4 lbs Fresh Cranberries
2 lbs Dextrose
4 gallons Cranberry Juice
1 gallon CranRaspberry
5 gram packet of Lavlin K1V-1116
Recipe:
I didn't have any campden tablets for the berries, so I took one gallon of the Cranberry Juice along with the 4lbs of berries and brought it just to a boil in a clean stockpot. Then I gave the mix an ice-bath to bring the temp down.
While the berries were heating, I mixed the 2lbs of Dextrose into several of the Juice bottles and shook them thoroughly to mix and aerate.
Finally, I funneled it all into a sanitized 6 gallon carboy and pitched the yeast.
Comments:
I chose a wine yeast because I want this to be pretty dry when finished.
It took about 24 hours until I noticed airlock activity, and it's been steadily bubbling since then. At about 30 hours I started to notice some foaming on the top of the berries.
I'm sure that someone will chime in to tell me how I broke several of the commandments of cider...but I'm tossing this out there to chronicle this little project. I'll update it as it goes along and let you know what becomes of it.
Pic at about hour 36, just before I changed to a blow-off tube:
Friday afternoon I put together a batch of what I hope will become Cranberry Cider.
Ingredients:
4 lbs Fresh Cranberries
2 lbs Dextrose
4 gallons Cranberry Juice
1 gallon CranRaspberry
5 gram packet of Lavlin K1V-1116
Recipe:
I didn't have any campden tablets for the berries, so I took one gallon of the Cranberry Juice along with the 4lbs of berries and brought it just to a boil in a clean stockpot. Then I gave the mix an ice-bath to bring the temp down.
While the berries were heating, I mixed the 2lbs of Dextrose into several of the Juice bottles and shook them thoroughly to mix and aerate.
Finally, I funneled it all into a sanitized 6 gallon carboy and pitched the yeast.
Comments:
I chose a wine yeast because I want this to be pretty dry when finished.
It took about 24 hours until I noticed airlock activity, and it's been steadily bubbling since then. At about 30 hours I started to notice some foaming on the top of the berries.
I'm sure that someone will chime in to tell me how I broke several of the commandments of cider...but I'm tossing this out there to chronicle this little project. I'll update it as it goes along and let you know what becomes of it.
Pic at about hour 36, just before I changed to a blow-off tube: