Recent content by Michael Popp

Thank you all so much for your input. I’m going to stick to just pear as it’s my first one and I guess I’ll use it as a basis for future pear cider and decide how I want to improve the taste from here on. So I’m wondering how a good cider company would make a pear cider that is sweet...

I crushed a gallon of pears and pitched some cider yeast 2wks ago in a glass carboy, it fermented very well, I decided to place it in a secondary FV as there was a lot of lees. After racking there was only about 2/3 gallon of cider and it was pretty bland as I think the pears I used were pretty...

Hi I'm making my first batch of cider. I used home crushed apples via a cold press, and fermented using Safcider yeast into a 1 gallon glass FV. Left it for about 3 weeks. Bottled 2 days ago into glass bottles with caps, adding 1 litre of preservative free cold pressed apple juice and 3...