First apple cider of the new season

[Daniele96]

Yesterday I started Apple season in my plantation in Piedmont. The first round brought me about 800 kg of apples and so today I have started the cider season with 6 gallions of cider. The juice of my cultivar is very sweet so I don't add sugar on it.

 

[bmd2k1]

Yesterday I started Apple season in my plantation in Piedmont. The first round brought me about 800 kg of apples and so today I have started the cider season with 6 gallions of cider. The juice of my cultivar is very sweet so I don't add sugar on it.View attachment 583798

Curious what OG do ya get? Local cider mills will be pressing very soon around here [emoji41]

Cheers! [emoji111]

 

[Daniele96]

Curious what OG do ya get? Local cider mills will be pressing very soon around here [emoji41]

Cheers! [emoji111]

I am sorry but I don't speak a perfect English. Please can you explain what do you mean for OG? If you question is concerned on the cultivar I use an Italian one that contains a low enough of sugar but the result is excellent (about 7% of alcohol and a fantastic fruit taste).

 

[Andre Lau]

Nice,
It looks like really sweet!Do you know the sugar content?

 

[Daniele96]

Nice,
It looks like really sweet!Do you know the sugar content?

It is not very sweet: the colour is due to the apples (I used a red apple cultivar). The sugar is about 1040 with hydrometer.

 

[ebbelwoi]

The sugar is about 1040 with hydrometer.

Then the original gravity (OG) is 1040.

 

[Daniele96]

Then the original gravity (OG) is 1040.

Ahh[emoji28] ok. I didn't understand what OG was....

 

[ebbelwoi]

Ahh[emoji28] ok. I didn't understand what OG was....

It's also called the starting gravity (SG). The measurement at the end of fermentation is called the final gravity (FG, of course).