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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 Guys, I am just about to do my first apple cider and I don't have any yeast nutrient. I have read in a few posts that you can boil up some yeast to kill it, then add it to the fermenter as yeast nutrient. Has anyone used this method? Would bread yeast be a suitable source of yeast...

Apologies first up if this has been covered before - Has anyone experimented with adding malt to apple juice for a cider? I was thinking a little LME to give beer head retention (well, some head retention - my ciders don't hold any!) and some body to the finished drink. Cheers- Chris

I've got a cider that is 50% apple and 50% pear (store bought juice). Fermenting with SN9 wine yeast- started off at 16 but have ramped up a couple of degrees. It started at 1.050 and is now down to 1.020 after 9 days. Usually i'd say its stalled and do the usuals to get it going again, but is...

Hey ladies and gentlemen, I've seen all the recipes ofmaking cider with store bought preservative free juice, I'm keen to know if its possible to make a cider using the Apple & Blackcurrant variety? A few questions: Would it be a good idea to use lactose? Would I need to use a combination of...

Hi, I'm just starting to research making some cider.. My Dad did it years ago and told me that they used to use whole apples (not juice) cut them into quarters and add to some liquid and leave it all to ferment, the rest of the description from him is VERY vague.. Has anyone heard of this...

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...

G'day guys, I've just been offered a tree's worth of pears to make a perry out of, but unfortunately, I won't be able to get brewing for another few weeks and the pears are not going to last that long. So I'm thinking of dehydrating them to preserve them. My question is: do you think it still...

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?

Second verse, same as the first: Just Juice 2L - Apple Juice - 3 for $5 @ Coles Happy Cider Brewing.

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.

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 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...

The missus doesn't want me to do apple juice, so she asked if I could ferment pineapple juice. Has anyone done it before?

I have been trying to find something on it but no luck so far. Has anyone tried to use the Cloudy apple juice from the supermarket for a cider? I've put down 4 litres of Coles brand cloudy apple juice in a 5L demijohn with the EB-1888 wine yeast. Tiny bit of yeast nutrient added too. Started it...

I just bottled my experiment. I used the black rock cider kit (which I have used many times before, it always comes out great) and I put some pears in there, to see what happens. I looked here and googled a bit but couldn't really find out much about adding fruit. So I sort of winged it. I...

hey guys, was just wondering if anyone had any reciepes and techniques they would like to share with me cheers

Hi all. I'm a new brewer and and never atempted wine. This time of year we get a sudden and short lived glut of plumbs in the neighborhood. Plum sauce and relish are standards but i was considering what else i could do with the fruit. I've seen wine made from flowers and other fruits simply by...