Oooo Aaaarh Cider!
So my little sister is a keen cider drinker. I never much care for it myself, but I thought I’d have a go and make some cider. I found a simple recipe on the old t’internet. It goes something like this.
Take 5 cartons of apple juice, now try to get the ones that are just apple juice no flavours or anything else. Empty 4 and a half of them into a sterilised demi john. Then get some yeast, I added wine yeast as I had a pot of it, I used about a teasp full. By my reckoning without adding any water it’ll be about 7%. About 5 days later it had finished bubbling.
I bottled it in 8 75cl pressure bottles, I divided the wine evenly between each bottle then topped each with water. This should bring the alcohol down to about 5%. I primed the bottles with sugar as you would beer, 2 teasps per 75cl. This is quite a lot so should make it quite fizzy. I also added two sacharin tablets per bottle to sweeten the cider, it is very dry straight out of the demi john.
Store the bottles in a warm place, a few days later the cider should be clear. I’ll give a month or so then try it.
[tags]homemade cider, homebrew recipe[/tags]
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January 9th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
where do you get wine yeast from??? or can you just use normal yeast
January 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
A mate of mine made some carrot whisky once using bread yeast, it did produce alcohol, the taste was awful though.
It all depends on the flavour you want. Your local homebrew shop will have the greatest range of yeast. For wines there are different yeasts for different wines. Red wines, white and ports all have different strains. As you beers, lagers use a different strain to ales. Lager yeast will give a much cleaner flavour when brewed cold (12-13C) ale yeasts work best at 22-24C.
Some supermarkets sell homebrew supplies and usually provide a universal yeast that can be used with wine or beer. It all depends on the flavour and quality of the wine you are looking for.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Big Bro! When are you going to make a cider that actually tastes nice? One that doesn’t just sit in my kitchen cupboard????