cider

Hey, new here, been reading alot. I'm going to get bashed for asking this but I'm trying to brew a high ABV - 15-16% cider then run it through a through some sort of filter to get to remove as much color, flavour and taste from it (yes u read that correct lol) Planning on using a champagne...

i have this cider I am brewing, it’s peaches I juiced from my trees, I also added pectin enzyme to clear it a little and it’s 1 gallon it’s been sitting for 1 week and I am seeing this. Still smells good I am wondering if I should be worried. Thanks in advance

Hi, I was researching which hops are the best to dryhop my cider with (which I'm still trying to figure out), but then I had the idea of dry "hopping" the batch with Yerba Mate tea, either along with or instead of the hops. It's got a ton of caffeine so it has the potential to pack quite a nice...

So I’m looking to make a Cider (I’m in the UK so Cider is all “hard”) which tastes of apple crumble. It needs to have a biscuit (or cookie for our American cousins) note to it, so I am thinking of starting with doing a beer style mash with biscuit malt, reducing it down, adding some Demerara...

Hi, i had 25kg of apples from my apple tree this year and thought i might aswell start my brewing career here. I pressed my apples after letting it sit with pectine enzyme and got around 16 liters of apples juice with gravity reading of 1042 - then added honey and got a reading of 1056. I...

Hello all, I just joined the forum but I have been learning from it for quite some time now. I've been bottling my mead and ciders in Grolsch style bottles that I'm reusing from buying drinks that use them. I also have some Captain Morgan 750ml bottles and after some testing, I believe I can...

Still very new to cider brewing-Started 3 1/2 gallons of apple juice, agave and yeast on July 13. I've been so busy/lazy that I haven't racked it for a secondary fermentation where I plan to add carbonation. It's been about a week and a half since I've seen any activity in the carboy. Is it too...

My brother comes home from college this christmas, which is like 6 months away- but I'm impatient. At least for experimenting. He doesn't like beer. He doesn't dislike it either but is apathetic to it. He think its bitter and tastes not as good as other things he likes to drink for various other...

Grocery outlet in oakland, California (the one on broadway and 29th, other locations might have it as well) has 1/2 gallons of apple juice for $1.99 ($4.00 a gallon). Pretty damn good for a quick batch of cider. Only ascorbic acid, no other preservatives. This deal has been pretty constant over...

I live in Georgia and during the peak apple season it is still pretty hot here. We have a 7.0 cubic foot chest freezer that we use as our fermentation chamber, but it only holds two 6 gallon buckets/carboys at a time. Since I'm also brewing beer, that means juggling the primary and secondary...

What apples do I have on this tree? And any tips for making cider with them? Cheers!

A 6 gal batch of carbonated cider I made turned out great from a local orchard that does not pasteurize. Using the same yeast, similar apples and environment I made a batch from “another” orchard that uses heat to pasteurize there cider. It doesn’t taste bad, just less complex and bland. Any...

Hi Guys, Im in need of help, this is my first time making Mangrove Jacks extract cider. So everything went well until i bottled it, i dont like alot of carbonation in my cider so i scaled down the sugar to 1 carbonation drop pr 500ml bottle. i used Coopers carbonation drops. its been 2 weeks...

I am making cider and the yeast blew the airlock off over the first night. I siphoned some out and put it back together and took the cap off my S shaped airlock. It seemed to then have a great, fast speed of fermenting. A day or two later I decided to add some pectic enzyme to clear it up. Now...

Hi all, So I just got my score sheets back from a TON of ciders I entered at GLINTCAP this spring--I did really well overall, but there were a few common flaws. 1. First, "V/A" or " Volatile" or "solventy" --I read that this can be caused from too warm of a fermentation or from insufficient...

About a month ago I started off some apple and strawberry cider using just store bought apple juice, ribena strawberry cordial, yeast and sugar and it’s turned out beautifully Anyone got any other tasty yet simple ideas? Thanks in anticipation

Hello all, just signed up to the site as I was hoping to get some input. I have been homebrewing cider for a few months and have been using the same recipe, very simple setup, so far my friends and I have really enjoyed the cider I produce but this batch I wanted to change up the...

So I filled my sweet cider in the bottles and started pasteurizing so that I would kill the yeast and stop fermentation. I gradually increase the water temperature untill i reach water of about 160F and the cider has a temp of about 152F. I was pasteurizing the sweet cider bottles in a 160F...

Hello everybody! It's my first time brewing cider and I only used apple juice 100% It's been two weeks and my cider went down from 1.042 to 1.002 (using safale-04) , but today, when ready to start secondary fermentation, found that it had like a film in the surface and some strange bubbles...

i made some apply jelly last year and froze some. its basically apple juice+sugar+lemon juice without anything else. could i mix some with water and brew it for a little apple juice with a kick? i will have some Lavin 1118 in the near future, would this be a suitable yeast? somebody tried this...