johnhangey
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So I have been doing a lot of ciders lately as they are super cheap. Also with 2 young kids at home, its great cause it takes basically a half hour to do a 5 gallon batch. This is the recipe I have been doing which is stupid easy:
7 3qt bottles of Great Value Apple Juice
2.25 lb Corn Sugar
Yeast - Mangrove Jack's 02 Cider Yeast (basically awesome!)
OG around 1.065 FG consistently at 1.000 = 8.5%
I like the taste of it as is, dry but not too dry, and a little tart.
I made a batch that I'm going to keg and force carb for my fantasy draft, but really want to get the abv down to around 6%. I am going to backsweeten it with like 1 can of apple juice concentrate, but I was wondering if anyone has ever watered down cider. Perhaps mixing 1.5 cans in concentrate, to a gallon of bottled drinking water. I'll go ahead and rack 4 gallons into the keg on top of some sorbate, put it in the fridge overnight, and then back sweeten.
Thoughts? Thanks everyone
7 3qt bottles of Great Value Apple Juice
2.25 lb Corn Sugar
Yeast - Mangrove Jack's 02 Cider Yeast (basically awesome!)
OG around 1.065 FG consistently at 1.000 = 8.5%
I like the taste of it as is, dry but not too dry, and a little tart.
I made a batch that I'm going to keg and force carb for my fantasy draft, but really want to get the abv down to around 6%. I am going to backsweeten it with like 1 can of apple juice concentrate, but I was wondering if anyone has ever watered down cider. Perhaps mixing 1.5 cans in concentrate, to a gallon of bottled drinking water. I'll go ahead and rack 4 gallons into the keg on top of some sorbate, put it in the fridge overnight, and then back sweeten.
Thoughts? Thanks everyone
