Going to try this very soon

[farmskis]

Apple juice
Honey
Ginger
Lime juice
Tea
Yeast nutrient
Nottingham ale yeast

I plan on steeping some tea and mixing in the honey and adding it to the apple juice along with the grated ginger. Pitching the yeast in primary. After three weeks I will add a yeast inhibitor and back sweeten to desired sweetness and add lime juice and keg. I will let it mellow and age in the keg until ready. First try at a cider for me. How does it sound? What is a good starting gravity?

 

[EpicCider]

Lots of people have used tea in their cider making, I personally have never seen the appeal. I might have to toss together a 1 gallon batch just to see. I feel like it just adds a unique off, but not necessarily better flavor. Can't go wrong with nottingham though.

As for the OG, that depends on your goals. If you really want to taste the flavoring you would want to keep it in the 5-7% range, but if your goal is to get shammered, boost it to maybe 9%.

 

[farmskis]

From my understanding the tea will add body to the cider. That's the goal anyway.

 

[farmskis]

What are your thoughts on this? Instead of adding yeast inhibitor I will when the cider gets to desired dryness rack it over to keg and cold crash and age in fridge in keg. Will I have to much sediment as it sits in keg? Should i use a secondary frementor? ( which I would need to buy) This eliminates the back sweetening and I have heard helps to keep the apple flavor. The cider will be kept cold and in a kegerator until finished.

 

[EpicCider]

What are your thoughts on this? Instead of adding yeast inhibitor I will when the cider gets to desired dryness rack it over to keg and cold crash and age in fridge in keg. Will I have to much sediment as it sits in keg? Should i use a secondary frementor? ( which I would need to buy) This eliminates the back sweetening and I have heard helps to keep the apple flavor. The cider will be kept cold and in a kegerator until finished.

If you are going to keep it cold crashed the entire time it sounds fine. Why not just leave the lees and possibly even filter it when putting it into the keg?

The only issue is that filtering might result in oxidation. Maybe someone should invent a cover for an auto-siphon that is a cone shaped filter attachment.

I also prefer secondary for aging. My goal is to get it off the lees and give it 4-10 weeks to age.