Angry Orchard

[saramc]

Sorry I didn't mean kill I meant make them doormat by using Potassium Sorbate.

Though, sorbate should only be used if you want a still product or you choose to force carb. Bottle carbing will not typically take place with sorbate on board.

 

[klowneyy]

Though, sorbate should only be used if you want a still product or you choose to force carb. Bottle carbing will not typically take place with sorbate on board.

Like I said before let the natural sugar and yeast in the cider do the work should be fine

 

[mskrdunn]

Angry Orchard may be the best thing I have had to drink...ever.

 

[Pickled_Pepper]

Angry Orchard may be the best thing I have had to drink...ever.

Angry Orchard is good, but I think Zima is better.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Angry Orchard is good, but I think Zima is better.

*blink* *blink*... umm I'll chalk that up to the hard cider talking! Lol.

 

[dr_al]

I gave up on my clone, I like the way my recipe turned out better than AO. Now i just need to work on kegging damn keg started to leak after a month...

 

[Pickled_Pepper]

Started to leak? From one of the posts or had a hole in it?

 

[dr_al]

from my liquid out post, i have o rings i'm just annoyed that i prolly need to tear things apart and swap ect. so my goal is to drink it all before my mostly empty tank is empty.

 

[Pickled_Pepper]

I get a stuck poppet sometimes and when I remove the tap line it will spritz me a little on occasion. It's because my poppet isn't the correct one for my particular keg. I need to switch it to a universal one at some point. I've never had one leak while plugged in though. You might just try a little keg lube on the o-ring before breaking it down.

 

[BostonianBrewer]

How did version 2 work out ?

 

[Buckshott00]

I gave up on my clone, I like the way my recipe turned out better than AO. Now i just need to work on kegging damn keg started to leak after a month...

Was your recipe closer to the Ginger or the Crisp? I'd like to try and make a clone, but I don't want to end up with apple flavored Vernors

 

[DragonApple]

Ingredients:
1 Sodastream Home Soda Maker
2: 1.5 Liter Glass Bottle Martinelli's Cider
2 Cups Wholesome Sweeteners Sugar
1 Size 7 Stopper
1 Airlock
1 Packet Rapunzel Rize Organic Yeast
Couple Oz Clear Drinking Liquor (Vodka).
Large Two Gallon Bowl
Food Safe Siphon Tubing

Directions: Open one glass jug and off 1.5 cups cider, add sugar to bottle; add yeast, reattach lid and shake until all sugar dissolved. Place sanitized rubber stopper and sanitized airlock then add vodka to airlock up to fill line. Let ferment for two to three weeks around 70-80*F or until all the yeast has settled to the bottom. Siphon off the hard apple wine from the yeast on the bottom and refrigerate the apple wine and let yeast settle out for another couple days to a week then open up the second bottle of Martinelli's and combine it with equal parts of fresh cider. Carbonate the chilled mixture in a small soda-stream bottle and then carbonate it by letting the pressure valve go off when carbonating and then waiting a minute until carbonated five bursts. Let the pressure go very slowly as to not let it fizz into the system, stopping if it starts to fizz up too much until the pressure is equalized. Tastes almost like the real deal! More like a Martinelli's sparkling hard crisp cider.

 

[atli126]

Working on Version 2 as I type. Version 1 was close to Angry Orchard Crisp, but I can do better. Will post a recipe when I have the clone.

Did you get it?

 

[cthomas]

I like Magners and Strongbow also.

Don't say that to loudly, depending on your location. This was taken in a cider bar in London last month.

 

[atli126]

My brew that's in secondary now was done with this,

4 gallons with apple cider
1.5 water
1lb brown sugar
8oz maple syrup
Yeast (can't remember which one)...

But now that it's in secondary I'm debating on throwing some ginger bc I really like the angry orchard ginger cider

 

[lolznrofls]

Swmbo used to like angry orchard till i learned how to homebrew ciders and cysers between mead and beer batches..now she wont let me buy store baught adult beverages..if I want it I have to make it..

 

[atli126]

What are your favorite recipes? Any tips on what I'm doing now. It's still in secondary so far

 

[lolznrofls]

I havent been brewing long enough to have a favorite..I have a six one gallon ciders and cysers brewing together with different yeasts and spice combinations..I also have five gallons of irish red ale in the secondary..I also have a hard strawberry limeade I based off the skeeter pee recipe bottle conditioning..
Now im taking a quick break to upgrade my brew kit..I just built a diy wort chiller and I need to invest another $200 or so it making a fermentation chamber.
Hopefully I can get it made soon..im looking forward to brewing my friends pumpkin ale recipe..he gave me a few bottles to sample and I fell in love with it....best advice I received was to go meet people in the hobby..I've already had a few invites to go to my lhbs when their homebrew clubs meet and bring some of my brews to trade tastes with..

 

[atli126]

My brew that's in secondary now was done with this,

4 gallons with apple cider
1.5 water
1lb brown sugar
8oz maple syrup
Yeast (can't remember which one)...

But now that it's in secondary I'm debating on throwing some ginger bc I really like the angry orchard ginger cider

I kegged this way too soon (near 6 weeks) it was really good but not sweet. So I added 7 cans of frozen apple juice concentrate and it is pretty much amazing (to me) now.

 

[Cheezer]

I enjoyed Angry Orchard until I drank Stella Artois. But it's so damned expensive. then I discovered http://www.smithandforgehardcider.com/ and I'm a convert. If I can produce a product similar to this, I'll never by retail again. Just started a couple carboys of cider in the last few weeks. These are my first ever.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

I ....best advice I received was to go meet people in the hobby..I've already had a few invites to go to my lhbs when their homebrew clubs meet and bring some of my brews to trade tastes with..

This is great advice. Also, it brings the community together.

 

[MindenMan]

I have been making hard cider for about a year now, as well as making Apple Jack to bottle and age. ( a batch of 11 month old Apple Jack we put away, is just killer now)
My wife had an Angry Orchard yesterday at the local artificial wave, floaty place, and really liked it. She asked if I could make something similar, and my response included the need for equipment to "force carb". Oh well, at least I tried...

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Keep trying! I just got swmbo on board with a kegging system on the idea of "wine on tap"....

 

[RobertTHunden]

I too have been messing with an AO clone recipe for some time, but just can't seem to get enough sweet apple taste left over at the end.

Anyone try starting with concentrate that is only reconstituted say 50-75%?

My thought is to start with an over the top apple flavor, so that it's more tolerable but still very sweet after fermentation.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

The problem has always been in my mind the back sweetening process. If you can't arrest the yeast fermentation to leave residual sugars then you can add tons of flavor but not seem to get it right sweetness. Plus, I suspect they have a 'concentration' that may be 'all natural' but hard for us homebrewers to replicate.

 

[RobertTHunden]

Agreed on the "concentration" that AO has, which is why my next round of experimentation will deal only with frozen concentrates.

 

[fuzzy2133]

I too have been messing with an AO clone recipe for some time, but just can't seem to get enough sweet apple taste left over at the end.

Anyone try starting with concentrate that is only reconstituted say 50-75%?

My thought is to start with an over the top apple flavor, so that it's more tolerable but still very sweet after fermentation.

I found that a 12oz can of Tree Top Frozen Concentrate is 40-44 brix completely thawed.
Attempting to make something similar to AO Ice Man. Testing using the above frozen concentrate to make an Ice Cider first. The notion of a concentrate that is un-fermentable is an interesting idea.

 

[MindenMan]

Here is what I do, I back sweeten to where I want, then add the "proper" amount of priming sugar. When the carbonation is correct, I pasteurize.

 

[cheeseplease]

Hey UpstateMike, any update on version 3?

Thanks

 

[atli126]

I would also like to know