TandemTails
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to plan ahead and start my Thanksgiving/Christmas inspired hard ciders now so they'll have plenty of time to ferment, clarify and sit.
Pumpkin pie has always been one of my favorite desserts and I want to try to carry over those flavors into a cider. I've found a few recipes around the web but none of them seem to be very promising (the results are really lacking pumpkin flavor). I'm hoping to remedy this by making a syrup out of the pumpkin and adding that to the cider.
Goal
Hard cider with creamy mouthfeel and hints of pumpkin pie. Reduce pumpkin spices to a syrup to condense the flavors and also add a “mouthfeel mixture” to help with the drinkability.
Test Size
1 Gallon
Ingredients
Steps
Estimated Fermentation
Primary: 2-3 weeks
Secondary: 2 months?
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, suggestions, concerns, etc before I get this started?
Pumpkin pie has always been one of my favorite desserts and I want to try to carry over those flavors into a cider. I've found a few recipes around the web but none of them seem to be very promising (the results are really lacking pumpkin flavor). I'm hoping to remedy this by making a syrup out of the pumpkin and adding that to the cider.
Goal
Hard cider with creamy mouthfeel and hints of pumpkin pie. Reduce pumpkin spices to a syrup to condense the flavors and also add a “mouthfeel mixture” to help with the drinkability.
Test Size
1 Gallon
Ingredients
- For the syrup mixture
- - 15 oz 100% pure pumpkin puree (Libby’s brand)
- - ½ cup brown sugar
- - ½ cup granulated sugar
- - 1 tsp vanilla
- - 2 cups apple cider
- - 2 tsp cinnamon
- - 1 tsp ground Allspice
- - 1 tsp ground Ginger
- Make a “mouthfeel mixture” (to provide more mouthfeel)
- - 1 cup of water
- - 1 bag of black tea
- - 10 raisins
- - 1 key lime (juiced)
- 1 gallon cider
- ¾ tsp Wyeast beer nutrient blend
- 2 grams Safale S-04 Yeast
- ¾ tsp pectic enzyme
Steps
- Warm 1 cup of apple cider and pitch yeast with yeast nutrient
- Make the syrup
- - To make the pumpkin spice syrup, combine syrup ingredients in a pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, and let cook for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally
- - Let syrup cool slightly
- Make the “mouthfeel mixture”
- - boil the water, add the tea bag, lime juice and raisins
- - let sit for 7 minutes
- Add syrup and tea (with raisins) to cider in the 1 gallon glass jug and shake to combine
- Take OG reading
- Add pectic enzyme
- Add pitched yeast, attach airlock and let sit
Estimated Fermentation
Primary: 2-3 weeks
Secondary: 2 months?
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, suggestions, concerns, etc before I get this started?