Wine Filter for hard cider

[paulmichele1210]

Hi I'm making a 5 gl batch of hard cider. First try to be honest. My recipe is 20 ltrs store brought apple juice, 3 jars of honey, 1 kilo sugar, 2 pints of very strong tea and around 4 lbs of mixed liquidised apples. Will I need to filter out any apple when it comes to placing it in my keg. Also I've read about malic acid and pectolase will I need to add either and how much. Thanks.


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[Randzor]

Drop the 4 lbs of apples and add apple juice concentrate instead. easier for your first time.

 

[oljimmy]

You shouldn't need any pectic enzyme if the juice is the 'clear' or pre-filtered store-bought kind. If it's 'cider' style juice with all the original haze in it, add pectic enzyme, ideally let it clear for 36-48 hrs and then rack off the pectin into your primary fermentation vessel.

 

[paulmichele1210]

Thanks that's great. The only trouble is in UK we really don't get apple juice concentrate and if you can it's so expensive like $10 a ltr.


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