Cider / Extract Hybrid

[AbsoZed]

Not sure if I'm posting this correctly, but since I'm going for a bit of a New England Cider Style, I'll post it here anyway.

I have a recipe I'd like to try, it's a bit of a hybrid between an extract beer and a cider. I just wondered if this has ever been tried (Probably), or if you guys could see something fundamentally wrong with the recipe.

60 Min Boil:
0.5 Gal. Water
3 LB Wheat Liquid Extract

Once this is done boiling and chilling add to the following:

4.5 Gal. Apple Juice
1 TSP Yeast Nutrient

Ferment for 14 days w/ Wyeast 4783 Sweet White

Rack to secondary w/ 1 LB Raspberries

Secondary for ~1 mo.

Then it's off too kegs. Can anyone find anything particularly fundamentally wrong with such a recipe? Beersmith says it fits pretty cleanly within the style, but that isn't everything!

 

[graycobra]

Look in recipes under Graff

 

[AbsoZed]

Awesome, learn something new every day. Thank you very much.

 

[BrotherBock]

Looks like a pretty standard graff to me. Raspberries will be cool

 

[brewkinger]

Indeed. Graff it is and it sounds wonderful.


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[schwiz]

Sounds good, but the key ingredient of 'New England Style' is raisins.

 

[MarkKF]

Sounds good, but the key ingredient of 'New England Style' is raisins.

Really? I've never seen raisins in an old fashioned recipe.


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[schwiz]

Really? I've never seen raisins in an old fashioned recipe.


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According to Cider, Hard and Sweet by Ben Watson. He quotes The American Orchardist published in 1825 (I don't think its get much more old fashioned than that). He says in his mind a second fermentation with raisins is what characterizes a New England cider.