For the benefit of my cider and others who go walk down the cider path. Does anyone on here have any experience in the use of tannins and malic acid or any other "tweakers" in supermarket cider; bottle juice batches?
I've just put down another 46L of cider, which is plopping away quite happily as I type. Whilst out at the home brew shop I bought some Malic Acid and Citric Acid, the citric was a mistaken purchase, I always lose my train of thought when I'm in the LHBS, all the pretty cans and thingyamee bobs!! Well I assume it was a mistaken purchase, I dont think citric acid has any place in my cider, but I'm welcome to be told otherwise.
I meant to purchase tannin. As I was going to experiment with it in my Brigalow/2L Juice bottle ciders to see if I could impart some depth upon them. I'm not unhappy with the product I make, in fact I love the stuff. But there's always room for improvement. As a recent tasting of a small batch I made from my own juice proved.
So to cut a long story short I'm looking for tips, amounts, when, what, why etc in the use of these additives and what positive or negative effects they could have on my bargain basement ciders!
Cheers
I've just put down another 46L of cider, which is plopping away quite happily as I type. Whilst out at the home brew shop I bought some Malic Acid and Citric Acid, the citric was a mistaken purchase, I always lose my train of thought when I'm in the LHBS, all the pretty cans and thingyamee bobs!! Well I assume it was a mistaken purchase, I dont think citric acid has any place in my cider, but I'm welcome to be told otherwise.
I meant to purchase tannin. As I was going to experiment with it in my Brigalow/2L Juice bottle ciders to see if I could impart some depth upon them. I'm not unhappy with the product I make, in fact I love the stuff. But there's always room for improvement. As a recent tasting of a small batch I made from my own juice proved.
So to cut a long story short I'm looking for tips, amounts, when, what, why etc in the use of these additives and what positive or negative effects they could have on my bargain basement ciders!
Cheers