nukebrewer said:I've not made EdWort's, but I've got a cider going that, if all goes to plan, will clock in at 8% ABV. I'm sure I'll be in your shoes here in a couple weeks or so. Cheers!
Frige said:I made a bock that ended up at 11.2. One left scared to drink it. LOL
Are you carbonating it? And did y ou push your og up with brown sugar, dextrose, turbinado?
In trying to find a sweet cider for Swmbo.
I just started this recipe yesterday.
2 gallons pasteurized cider
1 gallon apjuice
About a cup of brown
1/4 turbinado
Hopefully this will give me a more cidery texture. Gonna carb with apple juice concentrate. Swmbo looves woodchuck so hopefully it will be sweet like it.
jcam91 said:Are you carbonating it? And did y ou push your og up with brown sugar, dextrose, turbinado?
In trying to find a sweet cider for Swmbo.
I just started this recipe yesterday.
2 gallons pasteurized cider
1 gallon apjuice
About a cup of brown
1/4 turbinado
Hopefully this will give me a more cidery texture. Gonna carb with apple juice concentrate. Swmbo looves woodchuck so hopefully it will be sweet like it.
nukebrewer said:Yeah, I pushed the OG up with a pound of brown sugar. Put my OG at 1.051 and my FG was .996 for an ABV of 7.2%. It came out pretty dry so I sweetened with a pound of lactose. Primed with table sugar. Tasted pretty good at bottling, so we'll know in a couple weeks whether it worked or not.
huntingohio said:I've had this same problem, your main problem will be finding a good cider to start with as a base as most comercail ones are poor in the taste department.
jcam91 said:Being in NM this plays a big factor. 5 dollars a gallon for a "local" cider. This seems high?
Yeah, prison hooch does that.
Come on now, Apfelwine isn't that bad
youll find theres alot of hate for cider here, most threads someone will bust in with "prison hooch". Not sure where it comes from because cider can be truly amazing. It in fact was really critical to the founding of this country. The wives tale that the first thing done when the "pilgrims" landed was brew beer is incorrect. What they brewed would be akin to gruit. From record it was thought to have apples as a base fermentable. Cider in fact was find in the cellar of most homes all the way into the begging of the industrial revolution. At that point its thought that advetising campaigns and cheaper beer made it unfashionable.
Cider was even reported to be tha favored drink of Ernest Hemingway. There are several historical accounts of french winemakers visiting american cidery sampling the grog and marveling at how good it was.
In summation cider is good and F@#K livers!!
Hard cider is great.
"Apfelwein" is fortified apple juice.
Umm then what is cider?
Cider is litterally apple juice with parts of pulp in suspension. Now if when brewing you cider if you add anything to it say fermentable sugars, malic or lactic acid, really anything but more cider, it is now "fortified juice" with bits of pulp in suspension.It infact has been common practice since cider was made in eroupe to add spices or more fermentables, usally in an attempt to cover up of flavors created by the wild yeast and acetobacter present on many apples.
Its kinda like do you want orange juice with pulp or without. I prefere it with but without it its still orange juice. This is the kinda stuff that reminds me of when I got a rather nasty email from some elitist basically half swear words. The main point of the email was that I was an arsehole for calling anything but the ferment beverage from a grape wine. He even aserted that all but grapes is just simply a ferment juice.
People
If it's clear and yella, you got juice there fella. If it's dark and brown, you're in cider town.
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