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Hi,
I'm currently making my first cider, according to the recipe "Great Dry Sparkling Cider". The recipe is at the bottom of this post. I'm doing a 4 liter batch (= ~1 gallon).
While it was fermenting, I decided I wanted to add black tea for tannins and half a lemon for some acid. I'm thinking of boiling 250 ml of water with the juice and zest of half the lemon and adding the teabag in for the last 5 minutes. After it's cooled I'll add it to the bottom of my secondary and rack my cider on top of it.
Will it do any good in the secondary? Can I get some taste out of it? Is this too much? I'm a bit of a tea fanatic, so I've got some high-quality, loose leaf black teas I can use instead of the teabag. Will that make any difference in taste and flavour?
How about the zest? Will it add, detract or should I just experiment? It isn't an organic lemon, so I bet there will be some pesticides on the skin. A decent scrub with some soap should get that off, I imagine.
Thanks in advance!
Recipe
From "Great Dry Sparkling Cider" by Echo2112.
Primary:
- 3,5L pasteurised, unfiltered apple juice
- 220 gr honey
- 500 ml water (to dissolve nutrient and honey in)
- teaspoon of yeast nutrient
- teaspoon of dry cider yeast by Arsegan
OG: 1.062
Secondary:
- 250 ml water
- 1 black teabag
- juice and zest of half a lemon
I'm currently making my first cider, according to the recipe "Great Dry Sparkling Cider". The recipe is at the bottom of this post. I'm doing a 4 liter batch (= ~1 gallon).
While it was fermenting, I decided I wanted to add black tea for tannins and half a lemon for some acid. I'm thinking of boiling 250 ml of water with the juice and zest of half the lemon and adding the teabag in for the last 5 minutes. After it's cooled I'll add it to the bottom of my secondary and rack my cider on top of it.
Will it do any good in the secondary? Can I get some taste out of it? Is this too much? I'm a bit of a tea fanatic, so I've got some high-quality, loose leaf black teas I can use instead of the teabag. Will that make any difference in taste and flavour?
How about the zest? Will it add, detract or should I just experiment? It isn't an organic lemon, so I bet there will be some pesticides on the skin. A decent scrub with some soap should get that off, I imagine.
Thanks in advance!
Recipe
From "Great Dry Sparkling Cider" by Echo2112.
Primary:
- 3,5L pasteurised, unfiltered apple juice
- 220 gr honey
- 500 ml water (to dissolve nutrient and honey in)
- teaspoon of yeast nutrient
- teaspoon of dry cider yeast by Arsegan
OG: 1.062
Secondary:
- 250 ml water
- 1 black teabag
- juice and zest of half a lemon