Man, I love Apfelwein

[Hopinista]

I started mine right before Christmas and put it in the corner of the living room so all the company could see it bubbling away. I'm bottling mine this weekend too!

Carb at least half, I have a batch that's ~8 months in the bottle and it's like a nice champagne, it's amazing

 

[fijigus]

I've got a few bottles left of year old + tri-apfelwine (used treetop three apple blend) and its excellent. plus part keg of regular that's 9 mo old or so. beauty part is i have taking it off tap, back on, back off, etc, and it holds up well. another great thing is that if you ever get some cider that's just ok, or low abv, or both, this cider blends well.

 

[rideincircles]

I have made 4 batches of apfelwein so far and my most recent added 96 oz of Tart Cherry Juice and I let it sit in the carboy for 7 months and kegged it. So far it is my favorite. I added cinnamon to most of my earlier batches which turns out good, but I like the simplicity of my most recent batch better. I have some of my cherry cinnamon batch bottles that are almost 2 years old now. I need to compare the 2.

 

[atimmerman88]

Any reason this isn't a steal in juice for this?

Mott's Apple Juice, Original, 128-Ounce Bottles (Pack of 4) by Mott's http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004FE9J4A/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20


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[bleme]

I paid $15 for 5 gallons of Hansens at Grocery Outlet. $18 for 4 isn't bad but there are better deals to be had.

 

[finsfan]

Any reason this isn't a steal in juice for this?

Mott's Apple Juice, Original, 128-Ounce Bottles (Pack of 4) by Mott's http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004FE9J4A/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20


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That's about the price of motts at the store and I would trust the store more than getting it from amazon.

 

[atimmerman88]

Dam...

Here seems like the going rate is $5 a gallon....still gotta check SAMs club


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[finsfan]

Dam...

Here seems like the going rate is $5 a gallon....still gotta check SAMs club


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Thats what i pay for motts. But $18 for 4 gallons is about the same, except you get it from amazon. I would rather physically pick it up and know its safe from damage/fresh.

 

[atimmerman88]

Thats what i pay for motts. But $18 for 4 gallons is about the same, except you get it from amazon. I would rather physically pick it up and know its safe from damage/fresh.

Hey Fin's

Target had a sale....$4 a gallon so not terrible I suppose.

Easy 'brew' day comin up

 

[jrowland74]

Lucky for me my wife is a deal shopper. She found half gallon Kroger brand AJ for $1. She bought all 18 of them! Gotta keep some for the kids though.

 

[podz]

I pay .83 eur per litre here at the Lidl in Helsinki. That works out to 4.38 USD per US gallon at the going currency conversation rate, or to put things in perspective exactly half the price we pay for gasoline (1.66 EUR per litre).

My demijohn is 20 litres, so that would need 5.5 US gallons for a batch. It would be a whole lot easier to carry 6 gallon jugs home than it is to carry 20 one-litre boxes home... Cutting the tops off of 20 boxes, emptying 20 boxes into my demijohn, folding 20 boxes for recycling, etc...

Maybe somebody should start a business where they have a truck with a huge tank of apple juice and a long hose with a pistol, they just come around and fill up a 50 gallon barrel of apple juice for you once a month... you know, they could even sell or rent you the barrel with a spigot.

 

[MirImage]

Maybe somebody should start a business where they have a truck with a huge tank of apple juice and a long hose with a pistol, they just come around and fill up a 50 gallon barrel of apple juice for you once a month... you know, they could even sell or rent you the barrel with a spigot.

On Brewing TV they showed a homebrew club that ordered directly from an orchard. Orchard came with a pickup with a tank of cider; home brewers came with sanitized carboys.

 

[finsfan]

On Brewing TV they showed a homebrew club that ordered directly from an orchard. Orchard came with a pickup with a tank of cider; home brewers came with sanitized carboys.

Yeah that was awesome. I need to try some fresh cider or juice one of these days.

 

[lolznrofls]

I have made 4 batches of apfelwein so far and my most recent added 96 oz of Tart Cherry Juice and I let it sit in the carboy for 7 months and kegged it. So far it is my favorite. I added cinnamon to most of my earlier batches which turns out good, but I like the simplicity of my most recent batch better. I have some of my cherry cinnamon batch bottles that are almost 2 years old now. I need to compare the 2.

How can you keep good apflewine that long? I just cant stop drinking and sampling and making notes on changes its undergoing..

 

[MirImage]

How can you keep good apflewine that long? I just cant stop drinking and sampling and making notes on changes its undergoing..

The key for me was "losing it". Basically sits in the back of the beer cabinet. I have some 3yo

 

[podz]

How can you keep good apflewine that long? I just cant stop drinking and sampling and making notes on changes its undergoing..

Believe it or not, there are some people here who own 15 carboys. Some people own even more.

 

[lolznrofls]

Believe it or not, there are some people here who own 15 carboys. Some people own even more.

I can see that happening..Ive been brewing about 3 months now and I have five one gallon carlo rossi jugs.and a beginner's beer kit with a primary bucket, 5 gal better bottle for a secondary and another bucket with a tap for bottling but sometimes I just use my racking cane with the bottling attachment...i just bottled my first 5 gallon batch of strawberry lime skeeter pee and I have just started a five gallon peach melomel and two turbo ciders and a white grape peach brew for SWMBO...now that leaves me one more gallon jug...and my lhbs sells them for 2.75 so I have a good supply if I need

 

[WinterWarrior]

Just started my second 6 gallon batch of this. Should have been on my 4th or 5th, but I decided to go off on a couple of tangents!

First batch was bottled back in March and we opened the first bottle yesterday and I'm already thrilled with it!!

This will end up being an every 2-weeker from now on!

 

[elkshadow]

I'll join the fun. I'm going to be making a batch of this with 4.5 gallons juice, some belgian candi syrup and using Wyeast 3711 French Saison yeast on it. I haven't made the syrup yet so any thoughts on darkness and how much to use is appreciated.

I know apple juice is generally around 1.050 and I'd like my finished product to be around 9-10% ABV so I was thinking an amount of syrup containing 3 pounds of sugar???

Any thoughts appreciated. I have a couple weeks before I'm doing this. The 3711 is working on a Belgian right now.

 

[Chops1867]

Put on my first batch of this today. Five gallons apple juice, 1 1/2 pounds sugar (split between corn and table sugar - ran out of corn sugar) and Montrachet yeast. I rehydrated the yeast with 4 oz water (should not have used water) and was 8 oz short of fitting in the 5 gallons.
Now I wait.


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[Galdor]

Not sure if this is still around, but can I use baking yeast? I bought about 15 packets to ferment with and really don't want to buy anymore.

 

[TexasWine]

Not sure if this is still around, but can I use baking yeast? I bought about 15 packets to ferment with and really don't want to buy anymore.

In short, can you? Yes.
Will it taste good? No.

 

[hunter_le five]

Not sure if this is still around, but can I use baking yeast? I bought about 15 packets to ferment with and really don't want to buy anymore.

It will work, but I would recommend against it. The flavors generated by baking yeast aren't great, and it takes FOREVER to settle out.

If you don't want to use the yeast recommended in the recipe, maybe try an ale yeast? (I actually prefer ale yeast).

 

[WayFrae]

It will work, but I would recommend against it. The flavors generated by baking yeast aren't great, and it takes FOREVER to settle out.

If you don't want to use the yeast recommended in the recipe, maybe try an ale yeast? (I actually prefer ale yeast).

+1

I have some of this in the primary right now. I made a few changes to the original recipe. I used dark brown sugar and Wyeast 1272. It is finished at 1.004 and I am just waiting for some more bottles to open up so I can package it. The samples taste great!

 

[lolznrofls]

In short, can you? Yes.
Will it taste good? No.

Yup..it will work..but without knowing what temp range to keep it in..ahhh..thats kind of a crap shoot

 

[Galdor]

Thanks for the information about baking yeast! I plan to but some brewing yeast soon. A real quick question about Montrachet Wine Yeast. Is this made by Red Star? Called a store and they said they had packets for like 95¢ a piece. Is this good bad or something else? haha

 

[hunter_le five]

Thanks for the information about baking yeast! I plan to but some brewing yeast soon. A real quick question about Montrachet Wine Yeast. Is this made by Red Star? Called a store and they said they had packets for like 95¢ a piece. Is this good bad or something else? haha

Yup, that's the stuff. Seems to be a typical price.

 

[schoch79]

I looked around a little but didn't find an answer. I read over and over about back sweetening with everything but more sugar. Is there any reason I cant stabilize and just add more sugar or some concentrate and then bottle it?

 

[WayFrae]

I looked around a little but didn't find an answer. I read over and over about back sweetening with everything but more sugar. Is there any reason I cant stabilize and just add more sugar or some concentrate and then bottle it?

You can backsweeten with whatever your heart desires.

 

[bleme]

I used E1118 on my last batch, now 6 months old, and am less than thrilled. It is REALLY easy to drink and packs a punch but it just seems thin and watery. I'm hoping I like my carbonated half better. I'm thinking about buying a case of Manzanita Sol to mix the still half with.