kevinstan
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I am going to buy a 1 gallon jug of organic apple juice from my local grocery store. Here is my plan - let me know if this will work for my first time brew:
1 gallon jug of organic apple juice
1 1/2 cups of dark brown sugar
1 full pack of yeast (brewers yeast not bakers yeast)
The plan is to open the apple juice and remove about 2 cups of the juice. Then add the brown sugar (plain without melting it just dropping into the juice) - then instantly pitching the yeast and sealing it with an airlock.
A few questions
1. Will this work and be good for a minimal hard cider brew
2. Do I need to alter anything
3. Should I melt the sugar in some juice then add it to the jug before adding yeast?
4. Any suggestions on specific brewers yeast ? Montrachet ? Or D47 ? Or Ale yeast ?
I plan on back sweetening with the saved juice that I remove at the first. Will I have to stop the fermentation process before back sweetening ?
Any suggestions will greatly help. This is my first attempt at a very simple hard cider. I don't want to over complicate it and I want to be successful. I had read so much on here already and seen so many YouTube videos that my head is clogged up from over thinking it.
I want to keep it simple. Thanks to everyone in advance!
1 gallon jug of organic apple juice
1 1/2 cups of dark brown sugar
1 full pack of yeast (brewers yeast not bakers yeast)
The plan is to open the apple juice and remove about 2 cups of the juice. Then add the brown sugar (plain without melting it just dropping into the juice) - then instantly pitching the yeast and sealing it with an airlock.
A few questions
1. Will this work and be good for a minimal hard cider brew
2. Do I need to alter anything
3. Should I melt the sugar in some juice then add it to the jug before adding yeast?
4. Any suggestions on specific brewers yeast ? Montrachet ? Or D47 ? Or Ale yeast ?
I plan on back sweetening with the saved juice that I remove at the first. Will I have to stop the fermentation process before back sweetening ?
Any suggestions will greatly help. This is my first attempt at a very simple hard cider. I don't want to over complicate it and I want to be successful. I had read so much on here already and seen so many YouTube videos that my head is clogged up from over thinking it.
I want to keep it simple. Thanks to everyone in advance!