patrickwolfe
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Yesterday I brewed my first hard cider.
Ingredients:
Five 1 gallon jugs of 100% Warlmart Apple Juice - $3.99 x 5 = $19.95
One 2 lb bag of Walmart Light Brown Sugar - $1.89
One 1lb of Walmart Honey (used the honey bear) - $2.50
Two packets of Champagne Yeast $3.00
Total Cost was $27.34
Directions:
Pure all 5 gallon jugs into a sanitized bucket.
Stir in 2 lbs of Brown sugar and 1 lb of honey.
Using a large spoon, ensure ingredients are fully mixed.
Transfer the bucket of mixed cider into a glass sanitized 6.5 gallon carboy
Hydrate the cider by shaking the carboy for a few minutes.
Pitch the champagne yest.
After 12 hours, the carboy is bubbling like crazy !!!!!
Has anyone bottled a similar type of cider? If so, how was it and what were the circumstance?
Has anyone ever tried to dry hopping this with fresh cinnamon sticks?
Let me know your thoughts on the basic hard cider and how it will come out.
My goal is to bottle using Fizz Drops shortly after the fermentation stops. Any advise on bottling cider.
Any Advise will be appreciated.
Thanks
Ingredients:
Five 1 gallon jugs of 100% Warlmart Apple Juice - $3.99 x 5 = $19.95
One 2 lb bag of Walmart Light Brown Sugar - $1.89
One 1lb of Walmart Honey (used the honey bear) - $2.50
Two packets of Champagne Yeast $3.00
Total Cost was $27.34
Directions:
Pure all 5 gallon jugs into a sanitized bucket.
Stir in 2 lbs of Brown sugar and 1 lb of honey.
Using a large spoon, ensure ingredients are fully mixed.
Transfer the bucket of mixed cider into a glass sanitized 6.5 gallon carboy
Hydrate the cider by shaking the carboy for a few minutes.
Pitch the champagne yest.
After 12 hours, the carboy is bubbling like crazy !!!!!
Has anyone bottled a similar type of cider? If so, how was it and what were the circumstance?
Has anyone ever tried to dry hopping this with fresh cinnamon sticks?
Let me know your thoughts on the basic hard cider and how it will come out.
My goal is to bottle using Fizz Drops shortly after the fermentation stops. Any advise on bottling cider.
Any Advise will be appreciated.
Thanks