Hi all,
I'm new to the site. And in search of information about using unripe apples for cider. I mistakenly used unripe what looked like delicious apples, and its left a harsh floury aftertaste to the unfermented juice. I'm wondering if that will go away after time, or if its just the taste of the campden tablets that i haven't used before. The juice is incredibly sweet however, so it will be a shame to dump it.
How it came about was, I thought it may have just been soon enough to pick some apples and make cider. And with a deadline of leaving for perth in less then 3 weeks time(for six months), I figured it was now or next year.
After tasting apples off 3 roadside trees, and testing with the refractometer scoring ~14 Brix. We picked about 80Kg of apples off 4 trees... with the 4th untasted tree having the most red ripest looking apples, so we concluded that they should be ripe to. The other apples were mainly green, and being small and not my apple trees i had a limited idea what they were and what colour they should be.
So we left juicing the nice 'ripe' red ones until last, so we didn't even try and of the juice.
I'm new to the site. And in search of information about using unripe apples for cider. I mistakenly used unripe what looked like delicious apples, and its left a harsh floury aftertaste to the unfermented juice. I'm wondering if that will go away after time, or if its just the taste of the campden tablets that i haven't used before. The juice is incredibly sweet however, so it will be a shame to dump it.
How it came about was, I thought it may have just been soon enough to pick some apples and make cider. And with a deadline of leaving for perth in less then 3 weeks time(for six months), I figured it was now or next year.
After tasting apples off 3 roadside trees, and testing with the refractometer scoring ~14 Brix. We picked about 80Kg of apples off 4 trees... with the 4th untasted tree having the most red ripest looking apples, so we concluded that they should be ripe to. The other apples were mainly green, and being small and not my apple trees i had a limited idea what they were and what colour they should be.
So we left juicing the nice 'ripe' red ones until last, so we didn't even try and of the juice.