cider

Hi all,I have been making cider with all different brands of apple juice using a cider yeast but I still can't seem to get anywhere near a commercially branded brew. I have tried the kits but they lack in taste and body and I have tried the pear juice to take the edge off the dryness. The best...

Ok. So I am making some cider as some of you will have already gathered from my previous post. Although it is not ready to bottle yet, I am just trying to get my head around hat I will need to do to prime it when the time does come. I have decided that I will use apple juice to prime instead...

Any hints, corrections, or tips eagerly wanted. I want to do a either a mangrove Jack Cider or Black Rock Irish Cider. The wife likes a sweeter cider than is generally on the market. I though about only using up to 15 liters of water but using brown sugar. And was going to use Saaz hops. Any...

Looking a putting a cider tomorrow in a 15LT fermenter and I bought some Wyeast 4766 but I am not sure of it I should be using (the yeast that is) and how I should store the remainder? This is a smack pack.

Hey guys, Just put my first cider in the fermenter. Bought about 16l of apple juice and 4l of apple/pear. I put that all together with different sugars and champagne yeast. After the first day I boiled some oak chips (1,5gr/l) and put them in the fermenter as well. Afterwards I read on this...

Winter experiment #1 - dark.cider Following on from last years successful dark 'from scratch chilli ginger beer' im going to brewa dark cider for fun 10L apple juice 8L apple blackcurrent juice 3L pear juice 1kg or 2kg dark brown sugar 850ml treacle Now yeast selection is my last decision...

Hi all, I am bottling my first Cider today and was wondering what rate most people prime there cider at? i usually bottle my beers on the lower side of what most recommend and would appreciate a general idea of what most people do. Thanks

I know the true cider people will say this is not good,but it is!!!!!!!!! I have been useing:18 lts of woolworth apple juice 11.5 grams of us-05 yeast and that is it,og is1.040 2days later the sg is 1.013 which give you a abv of 3.5% I cold crash for 1 day,then bottle...

Am I correct in assuming that this cider is now infected? Annoying (and weird) that fermentation was complete, and it has been in the secondary for a week and a half without showing any signs, and I leave for the weekend and return to this! >:(

Hi all, Put down my first cider last week (10 days ago) and all has been going well, but I think the yeast may have stalled. Re-reading previous posts, I think I mah have shot myself in the foot for not 'activating' the yeast and only dry pitching. (pitched at 24 degrees) I have kept the...

Hi Guys I am looking at doing an apple blackcurrant cider. Any suggestions to the below? 18L Apple and Blackcurrant Juice 500gm Lactose Safale US-05 Yeast 500gms Dextrose or possibly not needed as juice has heaps of sugar? Let me know what you think, I hate dry cider trying to get sweet if...

Hi There I am having a go at my first brew of anything alcoholic - using up our apples (unknown seedling variety) to make cider. I juiced the apples using a juicer (until the juicer melted), then blended the remaining apples and had a go at pressing them using a car jack, milk crate and wooden...

FYI - story on the UK cider scene in the London Guardian newspaper. Good quality cider is increasingly easy to find across the UK, with Yorkshire being the latest county to stake its claim as a serious cider-making region. But for the best stuff, it's still worth exploring the traditional stars...

Tell me i'm dreaming if the following is silly, as I don't have a huge wealth of experience... Everyone keeps saying that getting a carbonated mead or cider is hard without back-sweetening or force carbing etc, but wouldn't you be able to do this (assuming that you dont mind a high ABV drink)...

Howdy all, I've recently conducted an experiment to try to find a yeast strain that will give me a cider I like. I had several bottles of UHT apple juice (SG: 1046) and fermented them dry with the following results; Craftbrewer Cider Yeast - FG: 1008 Coopers Brewing Yeast - FG: 1015 US-05 -...

Hi all, On the weekend I started my first cider with real fruit, and had a few things that didn't go as planned / stumped me. I'm doing an Apple, pear, and plum, and without a fruit press, had to resort to a food processor. This is when I ran into my first problem - I had no clue how to measure...

So made an off comment to a guy at work that I could make some cider. He showed up with about 10kg of apples. So I thought I'd give it a go. The apples are not the best quality (smallish and a bit sour), so I thought I'd just use some US05 I have (plus I'm too lazy to go source some cider...

My brother was making cider and said he used about 10g of bread yeast. I suppose it would work. Has anyone had experience with using bread yeast? He basically loaded the fermenter with 20l apple juice, a kilo of brown sugar and a cinammon stick, to which he added the dry bread yeast. It's...

I'll start with a small history here... for tldr skip down. My first cider batch I considered to be a write off... used 1kg table sugar, and black rock kit, bottled (with cooper carb drops as typical for beer etc) for 1 month... resulted in extremely dry, almost apple flavoured swamp water. It...

Hey Guys, Just thew down my first cider on the weekend, just a small test batch to get something sitting in the 11L glass carboy we bought for mead making. 3x 2.4L Berri Apple Juice 2x 2.4L Berri Apple+Pear Juice Tsp Yeast Nutrient 1x Sachet Dry Sparkling wine yeast. This is happily...