MeatForBrain's super easy hard apple juice recipe

[MeatForBrains]

Get 5 gallons apple juice
Wyeast 3068

Ferment out (~1 week)

Siphon off fermentor into carboy, put it in fridge (~1 week)
Siphon off more to get rid of more yeast

Add 5 cans concentrated apple juice

Put in keg and carbonate

Enjoy.

The longer it sits the more wine like it becomes.

It's great.


One tip. I don't use any special sanitizers or anything not specifically listed above. I only use a antibacterial hand wash with triclosan 3%. But I literally wash everything inside and out, yeast packets, apple juice containers etc. If you don't it will get funky tasting. The foaming hand wash rinses away very well.

 

[Homebrew_Honkey]

When you sanitize with the hand wash is it unscented? and how many batches of this have you made? im surprised to see you aren't using any sugar?

 

[MeatForBrains]

no it scented, but that's kind of a good thing because if you can smell it, you haven't rinsed it well enough.

Apple juice has a potential alcohol level of 5 percent. But it seems stronger than that.

 

[MeatForBrains]

I've made about 7, but they all sucked. I was using different yeasts and finally figured out a good one and a simple process. for this recipe I've made 3.

 

[snuesen]

Using a no-rinse food grade sanitizer like star San or something iodine based is always a good move to make after rinsing out your cleaning product. Triclosan under fda review by the way. I spend way too much money and time to risk throwing it all away by cutting corners.

I don't always make alcohol, but when I do I prefer to control it as much as possible. Stay thirsty my friends.