I've been doing one gallon experiments for a while to see what I like and what I don't. So far I've learned to use a very small amount of spice for just about anything or it gets really overpowering and unpleasant and winds up down the drain.
This time I tried a recipe that a friend of mine from work used. The last time I made it the stuff bubbled like CRAZY and is still bubbling along briskly three weeks later.
Ten gallon recipe
8 gallons apple cider
10 cans Tree Top that would make 64oz juice ea, but I just put in the concentrate
10 pounds honey
Two quarts cranberry juice. This is actual cranberry juice, not cranberry juice cocktail. Unpleasant to drink straight, but added to the cyser... we'll see.
Yeast nutrients and DME for a crisp, dry finish
I broke the recipe up between two 6 gallon primaries and still have to add some cider to finish off adding ingredients to the recipe. One of the primaries seemed like it might be stuck after the first day, so I just took one of my one-gallon versions of the recipe, swirled it around to pick up everything, and dumped it in the stuck one. Within an hour, it picked up a head of steam and away we went.
I'm going to let them go for another week or so, add some more yeast nutrient and DME, watch them go nuts, and when they start to die down I'll finish adding the cider so there's a 1/2 gallon headspace on each.
Nothing fancy really, just kind of a basic cyser with some cranberry juice. I expect to rack it to a second set of identical carboys and let them age in the garage until it starts to get warm (late June around here) and then rack into one gallon jugs one at a time.
This time I tried a recipe that a friend of mine from work used. The last time I made it the stuff bubbled like CRAZY and is still bubbling along briskly three weeks later.
Ten gallon recipe
8 gallons apple cider
10 cans Tree Top that would make 64oz juice ea, but I just put in the concentrate
10 pounds honey
Two quarts cranberry juice. This is actual cranberry juice, not cranberry juice cocktail. Unpleasant to drink straight, but added to the cyser... we'll see.
Yeast nutrients and DME for a crisp, dry finish
I broke the recipe up between two 6 gallon primaries and still have to add some cider to finish off adding ingredients to the recipe. One of the primaries seemed like it might be stuck after the first day, so I just took one of my one-gallon versions of the recipe, swirled it around to pick up everything, and dumped it in the stuck one. Within an hour, it picked up a head of steam and away we went.
I'm going to let them go for another week or so, add some more yeast nutrient and DME, watch them go nuts, and when they start to die down I'll finish adding the cider so there's a 1/2 gallon headspace on each.
Nothing fancy really, just kind of a basic cyser with some cranberry juice. I expect to rack it to a second set of identical carboys and let them age in the garage until it starts to get warm (late June around here) and then rack into one gallon jugs one at a time.