34/70
-forgot to take an Gravity or taste test
Bottling Day 7/6
FG 1.0
Taste: watery with a little something. Cloudy
ABV= 6.6%
Calories = 158 per 12oz
WB-06
- 1.005
- Strong Apple
- Tart Bite
- By far my favorite so far
Bottling Day 7/6
FG 1.006
Taste: Tart! Great apple flavor. I will make this again with 5 gallons
ABV= 5.8%
Calories = 162 per 12oz
Cote Des Blancs
- 1.000
- Dry w/ subtle apple
Bottling Day 7/6
FG 1.010
Taste: sweet! This makes me nervous as all the others dropped gravity points, where the Cote gained some. I only topped off with a very small amount of apple juice. I am hopping for no bottle bombs. I also primed with less apple juice.
ABV= 5.2%
Calories = 164
S-04
- 1.010
- Sweet
- no apple flavor detected
- Might be a good cider to flavor with other juices after ferment. . .
Bottling Day 7/6
FG 1.005
Taste: a bit sweet with a hint of apple. This was cloudy
ABV= 5.9%
Calories = 161
Champagne
- 1.004
- Dry
- Small Apple w/ slight tang
Bottling Day 7/6
FG 1.004
Taste: Dry, a bit tart not much flavor and cloudy
ABV= 6%
Calories = 161
Montrachet
- 1.004
- Sweet
- Little Apple
- Slight tang
Bottling Day 7/6
FG ??? forgot to measure before I took a healthy swig of my testing cider. As a result there was too little to float a hydrometer
Taste: a hint of sweet and a small bite of tartness. There is also something (good) that I can't quiet put my finger on.
ABV=
Calories =
Notty
- 1.010
- Sweet
- No Apple
Bottling Day 7/6
FG 1.005
Taste: A bit tart, and a bit sweet. More flavor of apples than any of the others by a big margin except for WB06 (my favorite).
ABV= 5.9%
Calories = 162
The pictures are from the sampler packs I was making. I put one bottle each to make a 6-er. I held out the Montrachet because I have brewed that one before and know that I wanted a lot of that for me to keep. I got 8 variety six-packs that I plan to give away or taste with friends. I also managed to get at least 1 750ml champagne bottle full of all of the different flavors. I plan to age them and see how they taste with a few months on them. The rest will be for drinking green, as this is probably how I will enjoy them if I brewed any of them again.
On a side note, some of my sanitized bottles got mixed in with my clean bottles. As a result, when I sanitized them all, some were both clean and sanitized others were just sanitized twice. About 1/2 way through I noticed some junk floating in one of the bottles I was filling. I went back and reviewed all that I had filled and found the 10 bottles that had snuck through. Some I will wait it out and see how they taste, but I had to pour two of them. I made them into their own six-packs. So in the end, I really only have 4 respectable sampler packs.
I learned a good lesson. From now on, I don't think I will accept empty bottles that other people have drank. I KNOW that I rinse all of mine twice, check for residue then rinse again. Then I go back later and clean and sanitize them. I got burned because family was drinking up my Zombie Dust clone at my daughter's birthday party and then setting them up in the section where I save my bottles. I saw them all there and assumed that I had rinsed them all and checked that they were clean. . . but sadly they were not. The worst part is most of the bad bottles had my beloved WB06 in them.
Oh well, 10 bottles and I learned a good lesson!