Newbie Cider Question

[Cauzmo]

Hey everyone. Newbie to brewing here and in the spirit of the season I would love to brew a cider, but I'm not sure what yeast to use. The ones I currently have available are Lavlin D-47 and EC-1118 as well as Nottingham Ale yeast and Red Star Montrachet. Anyone out there used any of these yeasts for a cider before? Would love some input on the subject.

 

[nestler]

Red Star Montrachet would definitely work. It is used in the recipe of the famous Ed Wort's Apfelwein on this site.

 

[dougget]

My local cider mill recommended Lalvin QA23. It's a white wine yeast.
Haven't tasted the cider yet, but fermenting for 6 days and looks pretty active.

Doug

 

[brewkinger]

Check out the stickie titled "Results from juice, yeast and sugar experiments" in the cider forum from CVilleKevin.
He did a HUGE experiment with a ton of yeast strains in cider.
Great read!

 

[Cauzmo]

I actually tried Lavlin EC-1118 in the cider with 1 LB of dark brown sugar. I'm told that EC-1118 strips a bit of the apple flavor out, but if it comes to that I'll try back sweetening with concentrate.

 

[hehawbrew]

I've used good ole safale05 and lav 1118. I like safale 05 because it's flavor is very neutral and clears well.


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[gx37987]

I mostly use EC-1118 and it work really well it usually finishes to 0.998 and dry taste so I sorbate and back sweeten then force carb, but my last batch I used Lavlin D47 its just about finished but I did notice that it didn't clear as well as the Lavlin EC-1118 I put it into the keg today and force carbing it now.

 

[TipsySaint]

I did a trial with 6 different yeasts last year and nottingham won out. It gets the booze but leaves behind a proper sweet apple flavor without going all sour patch kids....