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    Cider Yeast?

    Hi people, i reckon a naturally cultured yeast from organic apple skins in organic tassie apple juice gives a real indication as to what we are aiming for as far as taste and dryness and true cider heritage goes. It is variable but such is life...also this method although a bit of extra work...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi ya all,4 days now with a bit of sun and heaps of wind so things are inproving and just around the corner is "sandra", potenially more rain .. drinking an exceptionally nice mandarin mead at 1 year old and wow this is nice, dry pithish against a sweet finish, i am only drinking the first rack...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Yahoo, Damien13 and I, all glasses to "FRANKO" ,this recipe does work, give it a hit... Peter .... am currenty drinking a pomegranite brew, this is another ripper, actually having a taste test at work tomorrow with fellow workers,,, "shhhhh" the boss dosn't need to know cause this is...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey Airgead, yeah i know but this is some serious mould going on, its not just the carboys, also the air locks,even in the very top above liquid level and the thread on lid, my fridges and cold crash, my egg incubators and basically everywhere. I have dumped this and another and gone beserk with...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Yeah its me again, having dramas here, rain rain rain. bit of heat, rain rain rain, came home to black mould on outer carboys, easier to dump and wait for more favourable conditions, thinking mushrooms ....Peter
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi people, working slowly, cool weather due to constant rain making this a nice slow but solid start, seemed to get smelly quicker after first hit of nutrient but easy fixed. Less head on the keg brew but smells ok. see ya peter
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi ya Dan26, good on ya, it won't dissapoint. yes you can bottle and carb similar to your beer. I don't keg as i prefer a still cider. A lady friend who makes this does keg and also bottle /carb and i reckon its excellent, the bubbles do alter the mouth feel a bit but adds another dimension to...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi people, well its up and running and its looking good...i'm afraid to say....but,i am confident... that OKA sounds good tonight... and there will be a difference between this and recon juice.. Peter
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey guys, had a spare carboy and found some cheap recon juice yesterday so am going to do this with it. This goes completly against what i think and say but it seems that a lot of people still prefer CHEAP cider from recon juice so i thought i would make one up so i can make comment from a real...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey Damien 13, yeah thats why i put the recipe up, cause it is a nice drink[cheers to Franko]. As for the smell, it seems apple, brewing and alcohol brings out the best and the worst from this forebidden fruit, most issues are nutrient based and helps having a strong yeast up and running and...
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    good Food article - the truth about cider

    Hey citymorgue2, yahoo a good read and throwing credance toward using real juice to make a cider. I read up a while ago about what happens to apples in china[now biggest supplier of apple concentrate, dry and liquid] to make the concentrates, how this is stored and treated. Then aussie suppliers...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey Bribie G, all my stuff is done at ambient temperature unless its really hot then its in temp controlled at around 25c. DrSmurto, good to see you using the good stuff, i was amazed at the difference in end product after changing from recon juice to fresh apple juice, i was getting a bit low...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi people, Dr Smurto, am not particularly interested in reinventing the wheel as i have already found a great recipe that gives a good drink, easy, quick and able to be reproduced easily... and its always my choice, am over the apple chunks or not, its personal choice. Komodo, this is something...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey phoneyhuh, yeah ya get that, lot of info out there, may as well add my bit. Over time i have done the odd thing or two to apples in the name of "science" whoops i mean "alcohol". Nothing to tell other than what i have said but a recommendation is, get away from recon juice, this really is a...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi people, forums are great and at times it is hard to make ones point and thats ok. Sorry Greg but the point here is not that cider was first made accidently and led to fantastic advances in brewing that we all now enjoy but it was first made with whole fruit and as such did its thing and...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hi all, now getting back to it, nobody has said that adding the chopped apple to a mix will make the world of difference but airgead is saying it does nothing ,useless was the word i believe. You can even do his experiment of throwing some apple in a glass of water and wait an hour and this will...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey airgead, read above to save me typing it all again. Yes we are still talking about apple chunks. You comment that throwing in chunks is useless. If we put apple chunks in some liquids [trying hard to avoid that water word] they generally fall apart and you have a slurry of liquid and all...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey Manticle, the reference to crushing was in relation to airgead's jug of water experiment and encouraging him in another experiment. "You can try an experiment - quarter an apple and add it to a jug of water. Leave it an hour and taste. What you will taste is water. All the juice and flavour...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    hey Airgead, me again. As i said i am not an expert on what apples do and can't quantify my results other than with taste. I too have don't some tests [blind testing means that you had no idea whatsoever as to which mix had which ingredients, i can't do this cause i am the brewer making the test...
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    First Cider i can replicate the taste

    Hey Airgead, not an expert in what apples do but when you say" put some cut apples into water and wait an hour" is a bit misleading as we are not putting apples into water. We are putting apples into a apple juice, nutrient, yeast, enzyme,alcohol mix which i would think may have a different...
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