flovorless?

I jsut brewed a batch of cider...
in a five gallob bucket with airlock

4 1/2 gallons jewel brand apple cider
4 lbs of brown sugar
lavin 71 B 11-22 yeast I dissoleved the sugar in juice than pitched the yeast I let ferment until bubbling stopped primed with 2/3 cups brown sugar

I just tasted it and it doesnt taste like much of anyting? its carbonated but it just doesnt taste like anything. is it because I only wiated like 6 days after bottling? I need help

 

We need more information...like what was your OG anf FG? How long did you let it ferment in the primary? Did you use a secondary? etc...

 

Taste it again next Fall. You want fast cider, don't add any extra sugar.

 

if I dont add any extra sugar wont it be super dry and way less ABV

 

Dryness and ABV are really a biproduct of the yeast you use.

As for no flavor, I doubt it's flavorless...with all that brown sugar there should be a maple/molasses flavor at least.

 

yea there is a small molasses flavor we used light brown sugar so it reall isnt comming through to much

 

I bet it's really sweet though...

 

it doesnt really taste that sweet it isnt over sweet at all

 

71B will ferment out very dry, no matter how much sugar you put in it. If you bottle it, it will taste like a decent, but very dry white wine in another 6-12 months. Next time try an ale yeast like S04, Nottingham, or US05, or a wheat yeast like 3068 and cold crash if you want something sweeter.

 

+1 on using an ale yeast.
Using wine yeast strips a lot of flavour out of the cider that needs a lot of ageing to come back. Got a few just around a year old that are good now, back when they were one to two months old they tasted kind of hot with nothing else really detectable.
I have made a couple batches with WLP300 that were very good after 2 months.
I'm making two batches now with US-05, First batch was at 1.000 when I threw it into a keg from secondary to condition. Second batch is three weeks+ and still cloudy.
Next will be a batch or two with US-04.
Anyone have other suggestions?