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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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