Gabe,
I'm visiting my sister in Santa Cruz in a couple of weeks and she promised to brew a batch of cider with me that we can enjoy when I visit her next. Any suggestions for local pressed cider in the area? I've only used store bought juice so far and am looking forward to making and...
I didn't add any water. I just wanted to see how additional apple flavor and apple sugars would affect the cider. One of my favorite batches was made from store bought juice and 2.5 lbs of honey (5 gal. batch). I didn't use any soap in the cleaning/sanitation process, so it must be fatty...
Here was my recipe:
2 gal. tree top apple cider
4 cans seneca apple juice concentrate (1.5 qt. ea. reconstituted)
german ale yeast.
all ingredients put in a 3 gal. carboy.
Yeast was fermenting strongly within 12 rs of pitching
I didn't use a secondary, I kegged it after about a...