"Seat of My Pants" cyser

[emr454]

Threw together a quick experimental cyser today using the following:

~1 gallon apple juice
1 lb clover honey
US05 slurry from my last batch of Graf


I used 46 ppg for the apple juice and 35 ppg for the honey, so if I did it right, then it should have the following specs:
OG 1.081
FG 1.015
ABV 8.5%

This is my first attempt at a cyser, so I'm really excited to see what the honey brings to the finished product

 

[emr454]

So my cyser is down to 1.000 so my math was probably off a little.

The bad news is that is had a rubbery/plasticy off flavor, which I assume to be from stressed yeast. I've had it in a swamp cooler but the US-05 slurry may not have been the best idea for this. At least its only one gallon lol.

 

[pricelessbrewing]

Both meads and ciders tend to finish low. I've never had either finish above 1.005 unless I specifically stopped fermentation, but then it's cloudy.

 

[Chris_The_Rogue]

Apple juice lacks certain things yeast need and honey has allmost nothing the yeast needs ( aside from sugar). Some yeast neutriant or a few raisens in your next batch would help.