Pear cider recipe

[Brewski221]

Hey guys, I recently got some samples of a bunch of different brews from a beer rep. One of them was a fox barrel pear cider. I'm not a big drinker of stuff like this but it was kinda tasty ( the wife loved it). I figure if I make some for her, it will let me continue my mini brewery on the dinning room table. I found a recipe in a brew book I have but it seemed to simple so I wanted to run it by you guys. Here goes,
5 gallons of pear juice
2 tsp pectin enzyme
1 cup light brown sugar
1 or 2 packets of yeast ( ummm)
3/4 cup corn sugar ( priming)

Place 4 gallon pear juice in fermenter. Combine remaining pear juice, brown sugar , and pectin enzyme together and mix until dissolved. Add to fermenter and let sit 24 hrs. Add yeast and ferment 7-10 days. Transfer to secondary and ferment additional 10-14 days. Bottle and age 14-21 days.

To me this sounds like carbonated wine. Here are my two questions provided the recipe sounds ok. Is the gerber 100% pear juice ok to use? Nothing added to it but vitiman c. It is however from concentrate . Also I would like it to be kind of tart and I don't think this will be . What could I add to get that? Some sort of acid blend?. I also want to try this as a gallon batch in case it doesn't work out. How the heck would you split this into fifths?! Any suggestions, input or opinions would be awesome! Thanks guys

 

[Brewski221]

No dice huh?

 

[badlee]

weak wine yes.
Will probably come in at 8%
Fermented juice of pears is called Perry

 

[SmokeyMcBong]

one fifth of your recipe =
3.78L pear juice
2ml pectic enzyme
50ml brown sugar
20-40% of a pack of yeast
75ml corn sugar

sorry i had to transfer to metric but its easier for recipe reductions and its what i deal with most at work. i could convert it back if you need

on another note, should there be any campden in there? hopefully someone who knows will pop in but when i made the frozen concentrate wine, i had to add one campden tablet to each gallon of water 24hrs before pitching the yeast.

good luck brother

 

[Brewski221]

Yes i was thinking campden also. I will find a way to convert it back and i appreciate you breaking it down like you did. i didnt even know where to begin. I guess ill give it a go because i dont have much to lose. thanks again guys.

 

[SmokeyMcBong]

No problem brother.

I think I'd check the gravity first also to make sure there's enough sugar to end up around about the % that I'm looking for. I kinda think it might need more sugar but I could be wrong