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Hard cider recipes

BigSki

BigSki

I wanna be Dave
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I was at the farmers market yesterday and sampled some local fresh apple cider, it has so much sugar in it I started to think it wouldn't be too hard to ferment it and get some 'adult' apple cider.:mrgreen:

A Google search shows 1000's of opinions on how to do it, I'd rather hear a few from you guys if you have done it yourselves. I'm thinking brewers yeast, a cool dark place for it to gas up and work it's magic. Would I use a caraboy vessel ( like for home brewing) and a hydrometer to measure the specific gravity?

Thanks for any guidance.
 
I'm just starting in on this, hopefully Michael (mjderstine) will post up here.

At nationals he brought some of his own brew and I had a few swigs. Lately been into hard ciders over beers anyhow. Looks like no matter what you use to start to get the alcohol content up, you need more sugar.

He gave me the following info, I since just searched and made the batch work. I guess I'll know more in a few months after this weekend. Here is the PM he sent me on some help:

cider is actually pretty easy. get apple juice that has no other indredients, something that says 100% juice, with asorbic acid (preservative) is a good start. dont get anything that has added vitamins or anything like that. i get the store brand stuff from costco.

i use champagne yeast for mine. gives it that nice dry flavor. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/red-s...champagne.html

to make it have a kick i add two pounds of corn sugar Corn Sugar : Midwest Supplies. adding two pounds will give you close to 8-9% alcohol. not adding any will be closer to 4-5%

pour in all the juice and yeast, let it sit for 2 months in the brewing bucket, then bottle it and let the bottles sit for another 2 months.

just remember sanitation of everything is key!

hope this helps man. its really simple compared to making beer. its more like making Koolaid, and just having to wait to drink it.
 
Thanks for the reply. I know Mike, I had no idea he was into home brewing. I'm amazed at the 4 month incubation period. I'd have to wait until January until I could sample it.
 
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