H0U5ECAT
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laying down a full batch of cider this w'end after doing some small batches and trying to find a right mix.
The father in law and myself came up with something I think is a real winner.
Ingredients:
22 ltrs Apple juice (your preferred brand, Aldi did OK by us),
Half kilo light dry malt,
1kg of iron bark honey (can be substituted for another style, but get something with a good strong flavour),
11.5 grams Safale s04 yeast
4 grams yeast nutrient
In your sink, fill it up with hat water and immerse the honey tub into it.
You want to soften the honey up to make it easier to mix in
Put about 6 or 8 ltrs in the fridge to cool it down a bit.
Pour 2 ltrs juice into you fermenter and add the LDM.
Stir till dissolved mixed in.
Add another 2 ltrs of juice and add the honey.
We found adding the extra juice, just made it a bit more simpler to stir through.
Top up the fermenter to 22 Ltd mark.
You want to do this in a closed fermenter, especially if you want it to ferment for a longer period of time.
Pitch yeast and nutrient.
You want to ferment this at about 18° if possible.
After 2 weeks in the fermenter, I've bottled mine and let it condition out for 3 weeks now.
From the initial taste from the fermenter, the honey gave it a really nice earthy flavour and the colour from the ldm still left it a bit cloudy.
After three weeks in the bottle, the colour has cleared out and left a really nice golden colour.
And the taste.....
Fantastic. Especially for the first cider batch.
I think that with even more conditioning, come summer, this will be a pearler.
The father in law and myself came up with something I think is a real winner.
Ingredients:
22 ltrs Apple juice (your preferred brand, Aldi did OK by us),
Half kilo light dry malt,
1kg of iron bark honey (can be substituted for another style, but get something with a good strong flavour),
11.5 grams Safale s04 yeast
4 grams yeast nutrient
In your sink, fill it up with hat water and immerse the honey tub into it.
You want to soften the honey up to make it easier to mix in
Put about 6 or 8 ltrs in the fridge to cool it down a bit.
Pour 2 ltrs juice into you fermenter and add the LDM.
Stir till dissolved mixed in.
Add another 2 ltrs of juice and add the honey.
We found adding the extra juice, just made it a bit more simpler to stir through.
Top up the fermenter to 22 Ltd mark.
You want to do this in a closed fermenter, especially if you want it to ferment for a longer period of time.
Pitch yeast and nutrient.
You want to ferment this at about 18° if possible.
After 2 weeks in the fermenter, I've bottled mine and let it condition out for 3 weeks now.
From the initial taste from the fermenter, the honey gave it a really nice earthy flavour and the colour from the ldm still left it a bit cloudy.
After three weeks in the bottle, the colour has cleared out and left a really nice golden colour.
And the taste.....
Fantastic. Especially for the first cider batch.
I think that with even more conditioning, come summer, this will be a pearler.
