cider

Hi all, I just signed up to this forum, looks like a great site! Of late I have been trying to get a nice cider recipe happening. My first batch of cider was 20L of woolworths home brand apple juice with some nottingham yeast and some yeast nutrient (this one...

After Greg.L organised a buy of the awri 350 yeast I have put on my first cider ( well second, but you can't count the brigalow cider can and sweetener fermented at 28 about 12 years ago) Went something like this 12L woolies home brand apple juice 6L just juice apple and pear 8g awri 350 OG...

alright so this is what i did. i wanna know what it will taste like if some one can give me a clue. im not that experienced in brewing but the ciders i have made are crap and the wines are brillient. i started with 15lt just juice apple 500gr malt 3.250kg of dextrose 2 cinnamon stick 1...

Hey guys and gals, looking to use all my extra kit yeasts so though I would experiment with a cider as I have a fermenter free and the weather is nice and warm. Not too phased about making an amazing drink, probably looking at making something with a decent hit of alcohol so if it does taste bad...

Hi all. My cider in the keg has gone really cloudy and is full of sediment. What does this mean? Has it become infected maybe?

I am trying my first homebrew ever and decided to start with a simple recipe for hard cider, but as I go big or go home, I want to push the alcohol content far above the usual cider ABV. If this works out well using the equipment I have on hand, I will invest in better equipment and specialty...

Thanks for all the good info on cider making on here! Am a newbee to the forum so a quick bit of background, we have been making a light fruit sparkling wine/cider for a few years using a basic country recipe + whole fruit+ coopers home brew fermenter( we live in orchard country so have...

so its my second brew ever ive put down a brigalow apple cider as per instructions however i added a lil honey to increase the alcohol and some flavours, i added the yeast supplied when the temperature was at 21 degrees, its been 2 days average brewing temp 18 degrees the back of the can read...

Hey guys. Was going to ask if this recipe sounded good but I just went ahead and made a 4-5L batch in my demijohn (so handy) :D. I used ~4L Berri apple juice ~100 grams frozen raspberries (muddled into a puree) 5-10 raisins 150g honey EC-1118 yeast First I put the puree into some hot...

hey was looking at making a trial cider ive read people making cider from a single bottle of preservative free juice and champange yeast wondering what i need and how to do it cheers 2nd brew guys so i dont understand muchterminology and by much i mean any lol

Hey, I'm having a bit of a foray in to cider making at the moment. Been putting down a couple of test small batches using various pear and apple juices and s-04 at a low temp with the hope of some residual sweetness. Wondering if, since cloudy apple juice is always meant to be kept cold, this...

Hi Guys New to the forum so thought I would try and contribute something simple I have tried. I was in the shops and saw the Nudie apple cider was on special and thought, why not make a small batch of cider? Having used oztops before with berri apple juice and finding it semi decent, I went...

Hi All, I made a tiny batch of cider recently. As usual it is quite dry and finished at about 1006. I have been crash chilling it at 1 degree celcius to drop the yeast out of suspension. After this, I will be kegging it in a party keg. I am looking for a way of sweetening that is not lactose...

Hey Guys My first post :D and i thought i'd get your attention with the strange title. Has anyone ever used rhubarb in their cider mix before? Does the sweetness vs sourness work? Any tips? For that matter any recipes? Cheers Luke

Hi all, Firstly I'm new to this home brewing concept and this forum stuff for that matter, so not sure if I'm writing in the right spot or not, but here goes anyway. Hopefully some1 can help this newbie out. I'm 6 days into a brigalow Cider kit fermintation, I followed the method on the can...

Hey all. In the past I've made a few ciders using preservative-free apple juice and a touch of lactose. They usually go down fairly well, especially if they're six months in the bottle. Obviously they are a bit one-dimensional and lacking in the real apple flavour department. I can't really use...

Hi Guys, I'm doing a massive cider like the one in the recipe DB. Its now been fermenting for 16 days, it is all fizzing away madly still.. I'm using Vintners SN9 yeast, is such a long fermentation time expected? The yeast hasn't dropped out yet, theres nothing on the bottom of the fermenter...

Hi there. Put on a cider kit from the local home brew shop over 2 weeks ago using 1kg dextrose and the yeast that came with the kit. Bubbled away fairly steady for about 10 days then slowed down but is still letting off the occasional belch from the air lock. The SG (as well as I can tell -...

Howdy all, My wife has tried Rekorderlig Wild Berries Cider from Dan Murphy's and has placed an order with me. I'm thinking that to replicate it I could try a Brigalow Apple Cider Kit (that's the one she's liked the most so far) and add a 1.5 kilo of frozen mixed berries from Aldi, pureed in...

Hi All, This is my first post here, I found this forum doing a search in google for home brew forum australia.. I wish to brew my own cider. As a cider drinker here in South Australia, my favourite cider is Bulmers cider, not that easy to get and expensive, and then my next favourite (the one I...