Maple cider

[K2brewfisher]

So I have been doing plain old cider for a while. I'm about to get 25 gallons right off the orchard masher in the next few weeks. Great opportunity to experiment. gunna do 10 gals of my tried and true plain old cider. thinking of filling 3, 5 gallon carbons with the rest and doing other recipes. I want to try a ginger one and a cinnamon and spice one. I would also like to do a maple one, but not sure how to go about it. I have a maple farm so I all kinds, think I might go grade A extra dark for heavier hardwood flavor. I don't no about amounts, how you go about adding it, methods for stopping fermentation, and any other spices, herbs, flavors that I might want to include with it. Any info would be highly appreciated. I'm prolly just going to use wyeast cider packs for all of them just to keep it simple

 

[bucketnative]

If you were going to bottle condition a sparkling cider, I would suggest priming with maple syrup. That would be one of the better ways to keep as much flavor and aroma in the cider. I have had very good results in retaining a lot of honey flavor and aroma by priming with honey as opposed to putting it into the fermenter.