Home brew cider is awesome!

[Bluepete]

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Not much else needed really!

6% and ice cold.

Sunshine out on the decking, chickens clucking and the cat sprawled in the sun. BBQ maple and orange chicken with home grown salad and potato salad, coleslaw and sweet cherry tomatoes for tea.

Happiness.

On the flip side, I've buggered my elbow again and ripped my quad scrapping with a drink driver, so feeling sore again :smt009 (1-0 to the five-o by the way)

Cheers everyone, have a pint in the sun, smile a bit and relax.

Pete ;)

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

Reminds me of getting really drunk on scrumpy as a kid.

[DJFridge]

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That looks so tasty!

[xXBADGERXx]

What did you make it from Pete ? ..... and I know the obvious answer lol

[Specialone]

Is this the turbo cider I heard people going on about?

I love cider, it's all I drink, I like to brew some of this, looks nice :)

[Bluepete]

What did you make it from Pete ? ..... and I know the obvious answer lol


Four litres of cheap Tesco apple juice, 74p per litre, 250 grams of sugar and a sachet of cider yeast. Leave to bubble in an air locked demijohn four about two weeks. The fermentation will have finished after one week, the second week is to clear the cider.

Bottle with half a teaspoon of sugar in each bottle. I leave them for at least four weeks to clear further and carbonate.

Chill,

Drink etc.

Pete ;)

[yorkie_chris]

Where do you leave the demijohn to ferment? What sort of temperature?

[Bluepete]

Just on the table in the dining room Chris. Whatever temp that is, just leave it until its relatively clear before bottling.

It's important to use the right yeast though.

http://www.goodlifehomebrew.com/vintners-harvest-yeast-sn9.php

[Bibio]

and for flavoured add some essence of your choice to the demi when bottling. i also tended to use another container for bottling this way you can add dissolved priming sugar to the batch instead of granular in each bottle.

[Geodude]

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[SoulKiss]

Reminds me - I need to got the 40-pint pressure barrel loaded up for Ginger Beer for the AR :)

[yorkie_chris]

Bubble my pretty, bubble!
:shaking2:

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However, I got the recipe a bit wrong and only used 200g of sugar. Will this just affect the abv or what?

I used muntons GV10 yeast. £1.35

[hardhat_harry]

I got a Kit at Xmas which was fake Koppaburg with spices in it, tasted ok once it fermented.

6 months of sitting on my office book shelf (all 30 1 pint bottles) and it is probably the best cider I have EVER tasted.

Stunning!!

I also bought some Diablo (strong german dark beer) at the time and wasnt fussed on it when it came out of the bucket but after 6 months its excellent!!

Need to get another brew on!!!!!

[hardhat_harry]

And your best brewing 30 pints or so or it just aint worth it

[Dave Mac]

what bottles do you use, plastic or glass?

[hardhat_harry]

Coopers plastic with screw tops

[hardhat_harry]

Just picked up Belgian gold beer and mixed fruits koppaberg cider to go on.

[Dave Mac]

might be buying a new house soon, it has outside brick outbuildings so looks like a good place to store it when its bottled.

[Bluepete]

Chris, that yeast looks fine. Each one has a different taste, so find what you like and stick with it. Just look at http://www.whitelabs.com/ to see why.

As for the sugar, it'll make slightly less alcohol.

Pete ;)

[yorkie_chris]

The pack actually said almost verbatim the same as on the yeast you linked me to, so it should produce something drinkable :)
Then again a brew made with bread yeast actually ticked the "gets you well hammered" box fine when skint and studenty!!


And your best brewing 30 pints or so or it just aint worth it

I dunno, bearing in mind I've done it before that cider took about 20 minutes to start off.

[xXBADGERXx]

It`ll be alright YC , you only need to provide enough Sugar for the Yeast to munch on , you could always add a half a Carton of Apple juice and sugar warmed up in a pan , allow it to cool and pour it in slowly into your existing mixture without shocking the Active Yeast and it will munch on it quite happily whilst it`s active . You just run the risk of getting a Gremlin in there and farking the whole mixture if things don`t go to plan .

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah I'd rather have a slightly weaker brew than 8 pints of vinegar!

[xXBADGERXx]

Aye ..... and you`ll be surprised how it affects you this homewbrew , tis sneaky stuff

[yorkie_chris]

Hmmm well that didn't work too well.

Think maybe letting the primary ferment go on too long affected this (it was very clear in the demijohn before bottling), but there is very little fizz and I don't think it's vinegared more that it's so dry it's nearly undrinkable.


I did try half a litre or so when desperately sober with ice to try and battle through it, but I was still sober at the end and still ended up with a hangover. Hmmm.

[orose]

Sounds like something you could sell to alcoholics to get them to quit...

[Bluepete]

Sounds like the shyte they sell around here in Dorset as "Farmhouse cider" feck me, its like nitromorse.

Did see a teeshirt today though, said

"it's not cider....


it's scrumpy!"


Made oi larf

Pete ;)

[speedyandypandy]

If we ever happen to be at the same trackday could you please bring a pint, that looks gooooooood.
Don't think I've seen diy cider here in Norway, only beer and wine.