Planing Cider Yeast Experiment

[gyrfalcon]

I bought five 1gallon jugs and have well over 5 gallons of treetop apple juice so I thought it would be interesting to compare some different yeasts.

What sort of yeast would you recommend comparing? Right now I'm thinking of trying something like this:

• Muntons Ale Yeast
• Lalvin 71B-1122
• Lalvin ICV D-47
• Red Star Cotes Des Blanc
• Red Star Montrachet
• White Labs WLP720
• White Labs WLP775

As you can see I probably need to buy a few more jugs but that's not a big deal.


Besides checking the SG each day, and the results, what other sort of variables/conditions would you monitor?

 

[LouT]

Just the end taste and end FG corrected for temperature. Assuming they'll all ferment at identical conditions. If you were usingi a hefe yeast (WLP300) you might try it at 68F or so.

 

[Crazytwoknobs]

As soon as I get my hands on enough 1g fermenters, I'll be doing experiments of this kind too.