cider

G'day all, As I mentioned previously, I was recently given a whole tree's worth of pears to do "something" with, and so the Great Pear Cider Experiement has begun. After much f*cking around with a pissy little juice - that I had to empty after every 4th or 5th pear - I ended up collecting...

Hi guys. I have the apple juice sitting in vats with the yeast and yeast nutrient. How long should I leave it now before racking it? Some one told me 4 weeks. Is this right?

Hi all, looking for some help with my first batch of apple cider which I kegged about a week ago. I am having trouble getting it carbonated. When I keg a beer, 1.5 to 2 days at 400kpa and about 3 degrees C. is all I need to carbonate it to my liking. I figured that cider should have...

Just curious whether anyone crushes their own apples for cider,and if so,what varieties do you use as a blend.(Pink Lady,Grannys,etc)?

Hi all, Can anyone tell me where to find suitable apple cider bottles? I have read that I need to have proper cider bottles that are of a higher strength than beer bottles. Can you tell me what other options I have for bottling if any?

Hi All, I am about to bottle a cider in the next day or so and wish to know what would be the ideal carbonation level? Would like to know how to calculate the level for carbonating (bulk priming)? I ask these questions as in the past I did a cider and carbed it at 2.5. It turned out flat as but...

I have a cider almost competed fermintation which will be a little dry and have an alc% of approx 7-8. Im considering watering down, back sweetening then kegging to make it a little sweeter but not quite so much kick (approx 5%) but wasnt real sure how to stop the fermintation of the residule...

Made Brigalow Apple Cider with 2 cans 26L 2 kg sugar has unpleasent aftertaste , Could this be artifical sweetners they put in the mix.Hoping will inprove when carbinates in bottles or may have to mix with lemmonade to kill taste ,was going to add the extra water to make 36 L.

Hi, I have kegged my first cider and I'm not too happy with the results. I suppose my first question would be - is it normal to have the yeasty sort of aftertaste? I was hoping for something similar to commercial ciders with a clean crisp taste at the end. If it is possible to get this, how...

hello forum, first post and its one that will probably get a few tuts...here goes would i be wasting my time trying to make cider from juice concentrate? i know fresh juice is the answer but its scarce and expensive as where i am... any pointers appreciated dave

was at a pub and thought i'd try the monteiths crushed apple cider. it looked like lemonade, there was absolutely no cloudiness or colour to speak of. it was a clear fizzy apple drink. i got home and had a long hard think about it and it continued to confound me. does one use a 60L fermenter and...

recently tryed i think its called rekordering strawberry and lime cider and am diffidently keen to create something similar and wondering if anyone knows where you could buy strawberry juice or concentrate in Melbourne???

My brother got me a bottle of the above mentioned Swedish Perry. It is bloody delicious. Probably too sweet for most, but it has an amazing smoothness and vanilla quality that i love. Have other people tried it? I highly recommend. I was also hoping someone will post saying they love it and have...

I recently made my first cider, and my experience was very positive in fact it seems almost foolproof and very drinkable. The "recipe" was ridiculously simple: 10 litres apple juice (5x 2l Aldi preservative free, $1.89ea) tsp Yeast nutrient 1 packet Coopers dry yeast (re-hydrated in water)...

I've opened 2 stubbies of a new (my first) batch of cider recently. Both of them gave off a faint whiff of sulphur smell when opening. Just wondering if this will dissipate with time? I'm not really worried about it- i know that smell is often produced during fermentation and it hasnt affected...

Howdy All Did a rough small batch of cider for a bit of a test and was pleseantly suprised. Bought 2 x 3 litre just juice apple and pear juice Add yeast nutrient 7g coopers standard kit yeast from a cerveza coopers can of goo Split these and put even amounts in each 3 litre bottle of juice and...

So I have grabbed myself 23litres of juice from the supermarket (preservative free as mentioned in many threads on here). I also picked up a can of goulburn valley pear juice (it says its preservative free also). Will this be ok to add to get a bit more sweetness? My LHBS gave me some SN9...

So I`m just about to try a cider, using juice from the super market. Now the thing is I`m in Japan and cant tell if it has additives or not. I bought one litre and put some in a jar with a bit of yeast and it seemed to ferment ok. So I`m guessing it will be ok. $1 a litre. I can also get berri...

I would like to make a cider and have been looking at the recipes in the data base here. I was wondering if I combined them what sort of results would I get if I did this: 3L Cloudy Apple Juice 1L Tinned Pear Juice Juice of 1/2 a lemon 1 Cup of Black tea 400g Dextrose 100g Honey 1 Cinnamon...

Hi fellow brewers I want to run an idea of a new cider recipe. I have made cider's before using backrock cans, 1kg of dex and 500gm of lactose. It came out ok but still quite dry. I have been reading alot about cider recipe and the way to get it sweet is to use apple / pear juice it seems...