You know you love apfelwein when you start buying extra carboys and airlocks to let your batches sit for a few months while you brew other things. Picked up another 5 gal glass carboy because my others were full (or will be soon)!
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You know you love apfelwein when you start buying extra carboys and airlocks to let your batches sit for a few months while you brew other things. Picked up another 5 gal glass carboy because my others were full (or will be soon)!
jgerard said:Just got two half gallons of 100% apple cider for 1.50 each (managers special!) and a can of frozen cranberry juice cocktail.
Will this be sufficient for a gallon of apfelwein with my champagne yeast? Any estimates on the final abv?
jgerard said:Will this be sufficient for a gallon of apfelwein with my champagne yeast? Any estimates on the final abv?
jgerard said:Took a hydrometer reading, got 1.07 and added a tsp of yeast nutrient, its a nice deep reddish pink color. Couldn't resist adding a few spoonfulls of brown sugar also.
Looking forward to trying it! (As well as my other apfelweins, none are done yet).
I had to bottle, I would use these 1 Liter plop tops. You'd only need 20 for a 5 gallon batch or so.
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nukinfuts29 said:Ed,
What brand are these bottles?
Yes, but, like signing all dates the proper year, I won't be able to start signing 2012 until September of next year.Shouldnt your post-it note read 2012?
I fired up another batch using hte original recipe and its fizzing away as we speak. I'll bottle it next November!
Just got two half gallons of 100% apple cider for 1.50 each (managers special!) and a can of frozen cranberry juice cocktail.
Will this be sufficient for a gallon of apfelwein with my champagne yeast? Any estimates on the final abv?
OLD ORCHARD 100% Juice - Apple Cherry 12oz
Serving size
conc - 2oz (60ml)
Recon - 8oz (240ml)
Servings - 6
29g sugar amount/serving (So is that 6 x 29g = 174g)?
Any help on gravity points for this would be much appreciated......
Sugar (sucrose) has 46 points per gallon. That is 1 lb/gal = 1.046
174 g = 0.38 lb
0.38 lb/5 gal = 0.076 lb/gal
Not sure what you are asking here.
If you already have have an OG of 1.070 and you add a can of this stuff to 5 gal, you are adding (0.38/5) *46 = 3.5 points (corrected OG = 1.0735)
Correct for whatever volume you are actually using.
I had some I had out the garage all summer and it never cleared. it prob got up to the 80's and has been in primary since 4/29 (I forgot I had it out there). 1 pkt of champagne yeast (had a krausen) and 5 gal of apple juice and 2.5 lbs of sugar.
Still good?
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Recluse said:I've found that a lot of generic grocery store ciders include potassium sorbate as a preservative which will definitely impede fermentation.
Ciders that are Cold Pasteurized or UV treated don't have any Sorbates. Regular old Apple Juice seldom contains sorbate as it is probably heat pasteurized.
Similar thing for Grape Juice. Welch's has no sorbate, but some other brands (e.g. Kedem) do.
This got lost 3 pages back because of waiting in a moderation que and never got seen.
How about it? what do you think?
Hmm, I will have to go to the store and check since I threw the bottles out already. I don't think it was generic necessarily it was originally 3$ a half gallon before managers special and said which orchard it was from, but I don't know anything about any of that... I wonder how/if it will turn out if it does contain preservatives.
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