Apfelwein Recipes??

[199q]

MY question is to you guys, in the spirt of recent apfelwein posts, Is who has tried what and how did it come out? meaning how did you vary the original recipe and how did it turn out? terrible? good? would you do it again? recommend it? how does the flavor vary from the original recipe?

My thoughts with this thread it would be an easy place to refer to, and a place to spark creativity in this amazingly simple, close to prison hooch, dang good stuff!

for starters here is what I tried:

5 gal batch ( changed the following
Lavin E-1118 Yeast
2 cinnamon sticks broken in half
4 cloves

let the cloves and cinnamon sticks sit in the carboy until bottling.


it is very apparent with the clove taste. but the cinnamon doesn't come on until much later in the aftertaste.

with my next batch I might try some raisins to get a bit more tannins, for a little bit heaver body.

What do you guys have out there!!! I am interested!

-Nathan

 

[Nurmey]

There is only one Apfelwein recipe (Ed Wort's) but there are lots of cider variations. This thread has many of them:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/better-than-apfelwein-29003/

 

[199q]

that mostly talks about the yeast. I was thinking about more like, using brown sugar instead of corn, adding blueberries, or raspberry..... etc

 

[rod]

i have used brown sugar and cinnamon sticks with the lavlin ec1118 and its all gone
then i added a can of mango concentrate to the next regular batch and its all gone.
now i am patiently waiting for the next batch to ferment out-am going to go the campden/sorbate route and force carb with a can of apple juice concentrate added to get a stronger apple flavour.