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Subject: Cider Digest #36 Fri Sep 27 18:00:06 EDT 1991
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 18:00:08 EDT
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Cider Digest #36 Fri Sep 27 18:00:06 EDT 1991
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
This may not be Cider, but my intentions were noble.... (Greg Roody)
my first batch (Rick Larson)
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 09:16:19 PDT
From: Greg Roody <"whzguy::roody"@necsc.enet.dec.com>
Subject: This may not be Cider, but my intentions were noble....
On a whim, I picked up two gallons of fresh sweet cider at a farmstand
last night. I had the innocent thought of using up some dry yeast I
had left over from beer making (I have sinceswitched to liquid yests
for beer). Then, things kinda got out of hand.
I wanted to retain some residual sweetness, so I figured I'd add some
wort made from some crytal malt (my freezer is well syocked with
grains). Well, while I hand the grain mill out, I threw in some pale
malt grain. Now, I figured I should mash this stuff and get some
usablesugars out of it so I did a 1 hour infusion mash, spaged and boiled.
Next, I went back to the freezer to put away the grains, and I found
some light DME; "oh what the heck" sais I, and I throws it into the boil.
So, now I figure I should pasturize the cider, so I adds the hot wort
to it and heat it to 180. While I'm heating this glop, I clean up some
more, and find six pounds of honey I was saving for a mead.... "Hmmm,
a little of this couldn't hurt... could it?"; I added all six pounds.
Now I'm about a gallon short of filling my carbuoy, so tonight I'll
throw in another gallon or so of fresh cider.
I have no idea what I have created, save that it will be STRONG (O.G.
measured 1.110 at racking to primary)
The total recipe looks something like this: for 5 Gallons
1.5 # 10 0 crystal malt
1.5 # 6 Row Pale malt
=== grains were infusion mashed, sparged, and boiled
2.5 # light DME (boiled with grain wort)
2 Gallons fresh Cider
6 # honey
1 cinamon stick ground finely
1 packet EDME Ale Yeat
1 Packet Red Star Wine Yeast
=== yeast was started as a slurry and pitched immediately into cooled wort/ci
der
Plus 1-2 Gallons fresh cider added one day into ferment
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 16:15:17 CDT
From: melkor!isildur!rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Larson)
Subject: my first batch
I recently made my first batch of hard cider and I am pleased with
the results. I have a neighbor with an apple orchard and he
likes beer. I had him over for a few homebrews and I got talking
about wanting to make some hard cider. Well, he gave me 5 gallons
of his fresh cider (he told be the blend but the brown ale good
and I forgot :-) and we split the results. I made two different
batches, a one-gallon malt batch and a four gallon brown sugar batch.
The one gallon batch:
1 gallon fresh cider, boiled
2 cups light dried malt extract
1 cup 1028 Wyeast (London Ale) slurry
OG and FG not taken
The four gallon batch:
4 gallons fresh cider
1 pound brown sugar
2 packages dried yeast (the stuff you get from beer kits and *never* use
)
OG 1.060, FG 1.000 (could this be right?)
I fermented both for 19 days in by basement (~62oF). I primed each
with corn sugar and bottled. I did mix 1/2 tsp. of unflavored
gelatin in the priming syrup for the four gallon batch (remember I
am sharing this).
Impressions
The one gallon batch was very cloudy so I kept it to my self.
I did not taste it yet but I plan to in a week.
The four gallon batch was a bright golden color and very clear.
Sweet enough to drink without mixing with soft cider. Slightly
alcoholic but not tart.
rick
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Rick Larson rick.larson@adc.com
ADC Telecommunications, Inc. ...!uunet!melkor!rick
Minneapolis MN 55435 (612) 936-8288
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