The EdWort Recipe

[coldrice]

Does he not kill off the wild yeast or did I just miss it? Also, why is it important to use corn sugar? Why not regular table sugar? Also, has anyone ever used regular con syrup?

 

[Evan!]

EdWort's Prisonhoochfelwein recipe uses commercial apple juice. There's no wild yeast in commercial apple juice, it's already pasteurized.

You could probably use sucrose and get away with it, dextrose is just more easily dissolved and lessens the chances of cidery off-tastes. Never used corn syrup, but I don't see why you would---in my experience it's much more expensive than powdered dextrose, which you can get from most homebrew supply shops for next to nothing.

 

[Tusch]

Not a fan Evan? haha

Yeah his recipe uses commercial preservative free apple juice. And yeah using corn sugar would probably be more expensive, and I imagine it is less fermentable, and I'm not sure what flavors would be left behind when it ferments out.

 

[brewt00l]

You could probably use sucrose and get away with it, dextrose is just more easily dissolved and lessens the chances of cidery off-tastes.

me thinks that the cidery off-flavors you're already getting from fermenting that quantity of dextrose is being covered up by/combined into the cider anyhow so I wouldn't be too surprised if there was really all that much a flavor difference between dextrose and sucrose. Has anyone compared the two?

 

[coldrice]

you'll forgive my ignorance, i hope, but why avoid a cidery taste whenst brewing a hard cider?

 

[brewt00l]

you'll forgive my ignorance, i hope, but why avoid a cidery taste whenst brewing a hard cider?

exactly:fro:

 

[EdWort]

I use Dextrose because it dissolves almost instantly in room temp juice, is 100% fermentable, does not add any flavor or body to the Apflewein, and helps in drying it out.

Adding any type of cane sugar will make a hard cider, but it won't make what will taste like German Apfelwein (which was the goal of my recipe).

 

[farmbrewernw]

I've decided because of Evan! that apfelwein from now on will be called prisonhoochfelwein.

 

[EdWort]

I've decided because of Evan! that apfelwein from now on will be called prisonhoochfelwein.

You mean, award winning Blue Ribbon prisonhoochfelwein.

 

[farmbrewernw]

Yep that's the stuff. It is really great stuff I just like to kid.

 

[tiko]

hey i got some fermenting as we type. it'll be ready just in time for my birthday and party so im excited. i feel like i have to put a disclaimer on it saying it is not regular cider. well see. or drink it all myself