cider

Made an apple cider for a mates 21st a while back and it went down a treat and now I'm in hot demand. That was as plain as simple as it got, apple juice, yeast, water, dextrose. So this time I'm looking at doing pear and I want to spruce it up a bit, I was thinking cinimon sticks, vanilla...

I just put 2x 4Lt batches of Store bought apple juice. One batch of cloudy and one of Clear. I have some sn9 yeast and also a coopers kit yeast and US-05 I dont know which yeast I should use. I am thinking of racking it on to some crushed apples and/or pears to sit for 1 week once primary...

Hey all, keen for a go at a cider and would love some feed back. I've got access to an apple tree which has green apples, and I've been told they don't have as much sugar as the red ones so I may need to add some sweet stuff. Green apple juice about 20lWine or champagne yeast?100 or 200g LDME...

Hi all, Thinking of putting a cider down with this recipe, 23L of Juice ( about a fifth of it is going to be pear juice) Packet of montrachet yeast Ferment at around 18 degrees for two weeks if possible, then bottle with sugar. With bottling do i treat the same as beer use my regular rate...

Howdy All The lady friends are all hitting me up for a cider for Oz Day celebrations. Normally I just do 21l Apple Juice, 500g lactose and cider yeast from craftbrewer and it has always been a hit. However, I want to take a punt and make something even better. They have all been crapping on...

Hi Guys, I have been reading this forum for a while now and finally decided to sign up. I have decided to put down a 20L batch of cider this weekend. I am usually a kit and kilo brewer, not lazy, just don't have a kettle or pot big enough to boil in yet. I have 8 x 2.4L Berri Apple and Pear...

I am new to making cider and have been looking around for a good recipe, I have heard from several different forums that using apple juice produces poor quality cider, and that the only way to go is to crush your own apples. Because i have no experience making cider, i would have know idea which...

I'm very new at brewing in general, but I've always preferred cider. Apple, pear, sweet, dry. I'm not at all picky. Thus far I have only just had my first try, using nothing but a black rock kit, ~22L of water, and 1kg of plain table sugar (was told this sugar makes beer bad/'cidery' so thought...

I've got 2 x 20 litre beer fermenters, they are plastic with screw off tops. I was thinking of making some cider, but didn't want to make 20l since I'm pretty new to this and didn't want to throw a lot of $ into vinegar. Will say, 10l of cider brew ok in a 20l tank, or am I better off...

Hi all. For the 3rd time now my cider is going bad at the first fermentation stage. I wash the plastic keg with a capfull of bleach and plenty of hot water. I use fresh apples. I use the correct proportion of wine yeast as sold and recomended by brewcraft here in Melbourne. The cider develops a...

G'day mates, Ive been fermenting Franko's all juice cider recipe, slightly modified and it has been sitting at 1006 for a bit over a week. Recipe was 18 ltrs of apple juice 3 ltrs of apple/pear juice 1 ltr of pear juice 250 grms of light dried malt extract 200 grms of lactose wyeast cider...

Hi! I'm looking to do my first home brew, and since my partner has done an ale I thought I'd like to do a Cider. I bought from BrewCraft their Irish Cider kit which comprises of: 1x Black Rock Cider Kit 500g Lactose 500g Dextrose 250g maltodextrin 250g malt extract 1x apple schnapps...

Hi, I am Jenny and we put down a keg of Apple cider on the 26th October. From reading through the posts, I am thinking my brew might be DED!!! We followed all directions that came with the brew base (Brigalow Apple cider) but there has been no bubbling in the air lock, there is sediment in the...

Hi All, I have just purchased some oztops and would like to make some spiced cider. I want something that you drink cold (A communal drink for Christmas Day or similar). Does anyone have some good suggestions from things they have tried in the past? I was initially thinking maybe 1 stick of...

Well I've been charged by the wife to make a mid strength 3.5% low carb dry cider. Now with a blackrock kit it would be too easy, halve the fermentables and either use dry enzyme or choose a particular yeast. However, I've been making the wife's cider with straight apple/pear Berry juice with...

G'day guys, So if I want to add extra kick to a cider brew I could throw dextrose/brew enhancer etc, so I'm guessing that I'll dissolve a brew enhancer into a couple litres of boiling water, then add 20L or so of juice, then wait for the temp to get below 30C and add yeast from a yeast starter...

Hi all. Ok so I have my 1st cider brew (18l fresh juices, 250g light dried malt extract and some liquid cider yeast) fermenting away in my wort - very exciting :) My question is after achieving a stable sg, what do I do? Do I literally just bottle with carb drops similar to beer brews? Is this...

Hey y'all, Tomorrow I'm brewing my first cider! It's going to be a pear cider! I bought 40kg of pears and 2 kg of strawberries. I've put them in the freezer so they break up a bit and give more juice. I'm planning to juice 'em tomorrow and than simmer the lot for 1/2 hour. I'm thinking of...

Hey guys, just put down my first ever brew of cider a couple of weeks ago, and although primary fermentation seems to be well over, I'm left with clear cider that has a pretty noticeable reek to it. For reference, this was my method: ~9L of 50/50 homebrand apple juice and Berri Apple + Pear...

Hello there. ive been floating around the Non Beer forum for a few weeks after having purchased my first brew kit. I've got a Coopers DIY kit and did a swap with one of the guys at work for a cider KnK for my lager tin. Anyway just bottled 21 bottles of Apple raspberry cider. Did it all per...