I want to make a cherry cider or a watermelon cider but have a question. Most of the recipes I have call for making apple cider and adding the other juice as a blend. Is there a problem with just using, say, cherry juice? Is it because it is more cost effective to use an apple blend?
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madscientist451
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I've made cherry "cider" with sour cherries I picked myself at a local orchard.
Its not worth the trouble.
The cherry flavor ferments out and you have a beverage that doesn't taste anything like cherries.
My 2 cents: If you want a cherry flavored beverage, make a mead, then stabilize it and add cherry juice or cherry flavoring.
You can use apple juice and go for a cherry flavored cider, but cherry flavor is somewhat delicate and it may get lost if you have other competing flavors.
Its not worth the trouble.
The cherry flavor ferments out and you have a beverage that doesn't taste anything like cherries.
My 2 cents: If you want a cherry flavored beverage, make a mead, then stabilize it and add cherry juice or cherry flavoring.
You can use apple juice and go for a cherry flavored cider, but cherry flavor is somewhat delicate and it may get lost if you have other competing flavors.
That's what I was kind of thinking. We don't make cider and expect it to taste like apples just like we don't make wine and expect it to taste like grapes. I figured it would be fun to say this is made with only cherry or only watermelon but then you really aren't getting a cherry or watermelon flavor. I will take a look at the bottled flavorings and look at adding it before bottling. I really need to get into kegging so I can stabilize and do whatever I want with it and then force carbonate.
