kb6m
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Hi all,
I just started my first batch of cider. Hoping it turns out drinkable. I was wondering if I could get some feedback on the recipe I used.
4 gallons of Mott's apple juice
1.2 gallons of martinelli's cider (unopened left-overs from Christmas)
4# "Zulka" cane sugar
1# Light brown sugar
1 pkg of Nottingham yeast.
I poured 1/2 of each gallon of juice into the carboy, then I tried to dissolve about 1# each, of sugar, into the remaining 1/2 gallon, by shaking the heck out of it. I still had quite a bit of undissolved sugar in the carboy.
If I read the hydrometer correctly, it had an OG of 1.068. I put a fermentation lock, full of vodka, on it and set it in my closet. I really, really, tried to sanitize everything and hope it works out.
I plan on letting it go for about a month and then bottle it. This is going to be a long month.
Thanks,
Greg
I just started my first batch of cider. Hoping it turns out drinkable. I was wondering if I could get some feedback on the recipe I used.
4 gallons of Mott's apple juice
1.2 gallons of martinelli's cider (unopened left-overs from Christmas)
4# "Zulka" cane sugar
1# Light brown sugar
1 pkg of Nottingham yeast.
I poured 1/2 of each gallon of juice into the carboy, then I tried to dissolve about 1# each, of sugar, into the remaining 1/2 gallon, by shaking the heck out of it. I still had quite a bit of undissolved sugar in the carboy.
If I read the hydrometer correctly, it had an OG of 1.068. I put a fermentation lock, full of vodka, on it and set it in my closet. I really, really, tried to sanitize everything and hope it works out.
I plan on letting it go for about a month and then bottle it. This is going to be a long month.
Thanks,
Greg