gunhaus
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At least That is what i am going to assume. We make a hard cider, my son named Cherry Darling. It is a pretty straight forwards fairly high gravity hard apple cider, that we let dry out completely. Then we cold crash it, rack it onto Campden, and sorbate, and flavor it with apple/cherry, and mixed berry concentrate. It is a bit sweet, quite fruity, and a pale pink color. The wife and kid love it. We serve it still on ice - no bubbles needed. Normally i keg it, but sometimes they want bottles. So it was a few weeks back; I made them up a batch, bottled it when done, and stashed it away cold. Normally this will last a couple months. About 4 weeks in the bottles i had one (I don't usually care for this one, but I was in the mood!) It was quite good - a lot of apple flavor with a hint of cherry and berry in the back ground. Normal. Another four weeks go by, and my kid calls and says "There is something WAY wrong with this cider." I stopped over on the way home, and popped a top on one, and there were fizzys! Hmmm. There was also absolutely zero color, and no real flavor except for sweet - It was indeed like lightly cardbed sugar water! I know it could have just been the regular yeasties restarting, even though this has never happened before doesn't mean it couldn't - But i think the loss of color, and the complete loss of all flavors except the high level of "sweet" that remains more likely indicates a secondary infection of wild creatures!
As a little side note, I DID have a large bowl of sour dough bread doing it's thing about ten feet from where i was bottling - so maybe I was "askin'for it" No big loss though, we are down to a dozen bottles, of 13% abv sugar water with bubbles! A nice bottle of mixed berry juice, some glasses of ice cubes and we will fix and consume the remainder tomorrow while we watch zombies feeding on people.
As a little side note, I DID have a large bowl of sour dough bread doing it's thing about ten feet from where i was bottling - so maybe I was "askin'for it" No big loss though, we are down to a dozen bottles, of 13% abv sugar water with bubbles! A nice bottle of mixed berry juice, some glasses of ice cubes and we will fix and consume the remainder tomorrow while we watch zombies feeding on people.
