Extract Cider

[80/-]

Hi all - first post so be gentle !

I've just started an extract cider this weekend - the instructions stated that the kit should be mixed with sugar up to 4gallons and then after 5 days, that the wort should be topped up to 5 gallons with water.

I was wondering if I topped up with a gallon of pure apple juice, instead of water, if this would help to keep the cider more apple tasting ?


Any thoughts ?

 

[80/-]

Okay - I'll take the deafening lack of response as a "don't know" !

I bought two litres of apple juice from the supermarket - just the normal tetrapack stuff and added it to the fermenting cider yesterday.

Fermentation is still going strong - cider certainly seems to ferment quicker than the beer I've brewed in the past - and has dropped from 1.052 to 1.010 and is still dropping.

I'll give it another week to ferment out and then transfer to a secondary for a couple more days - once its settled in the secondary for a while its into bottles, a couple of days in the warm to carbonate and then off to the garage for 3 months maturing (assuming I can resist the temptation that long!)

Slainte !

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[rightwingnut]

Never brewed a cider, but that sounds harmless, and preferable to water. I don't know that it can be called a wort, though. (Well, it CAN be called anything you want...) Not being picky, but I'm curious as to what it is called...a mead before yeast is a "must", a beer "wort".....

 

[80/-]

Yeah - I didn't think that the usual beer terms were applicable either, but stuck with them as at least people will be able to work out what I'm talking about.

Now that I think about it, I recon your suggestion of must is one i've seen used - but the online dictionaries suggest this is really meant to relate to unfermented grape juice.

This page http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scrumpy/cider/cider.htm just calls it juice.

Juice is good enough for me !

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[rightwingnut]

I like juice. Juice is good.

 

[MindenMan]

Actually the term is "must" the same term used for yeast.

 

[Maylar]

Bored dude? Why are you dredging up 11 year old threads?

 

[MindenMan]

Bored dude? Why are you dredging up 11 year old threads?

No,
I must have been asleep because must and yeast are certainly not the same thing.