biotransformation and cider

[elburrogrande]

Has anyone played around with this? I don't make much cider but decided to give it a go taking some lessons from NE style IPA. I dry hopped at the peak of fermentation with galaxy hops while again after fermentation had stopped with Lemon Drop hops. For Yeast I used some dregs that thad wyeast 3711. I also carbonated naturally using pineapple juice concentrate rather than sugar. The result was something quite amazing. It was not like other hopped ciders I had tried. Completely opaque with tropical flavors all over the place. A true hybrid beer. I am about to make a 3 gallon batch and play around with this more just wondering if anyone had tried to. OG for the first batch was 1.054 with nothing but nutrients added. FG was 1.000.

 

[AkTom]

Sounds good. I'll have to look for lemon drops.

 

[elburrogrande]

Just made a 3 gallon batch. very smooth, everyone has been loving it so far. For this one I used 3 gallons of cider, yeast nutrient, 3711 yeast. I added .2 oz galaxy and .4oz lemon drop at 3 days in to fermentation, left them for 7 days. REmoved them and added .4oz galaxy and .2oz lemon drop for 3 days. I did not kill the yeast. I added 1 can of pineapple concentrate into keg and kegged as usual. Here is a pic, it has a really nice color to it. I would say it looks more yellow in person