Cider Digest #0081

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Subject: Cider Digest #81 Thu Dec 5 11:00:06 EST 1991 
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 11:00:07 EST 
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Cider Digest #81          Thu Dec 5 11:00:06 EST 1991 
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
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  Cider update (gkushmer) 

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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 9:18:30 EST 
From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu 
Subject: Cider update 

Last night I took my cider and finally racked it to a secondary (yeah!).   
The end product has five cups of cane sugar, about 3/4 of a gallon of water, 
four gallons of pressed apple juice, and a packet of champagne yeast. 

The color, as my mother has so tactfully pointed out, would easily pass a 
physical :-) 

Originally I'd thrown in only one cup of sugar, and a taste test said "cheap 
wine."  After having added another four cups of cane sugar (all of it is cane  
sugar), this now tastes smoother - I didn't even catch a hint of alcohol. 

Now it's sitting in the basement at about 70F.   

My girlfriend found two one-gallon glass carboys in a shop near Davis 
Square for $2 each.  I'm going to clean them out (I've got HCl thanks to 
the last free carboy - and that's not a complaint) and put in a gallon 
each of cider with yeast. 

I was thinking of Red Star Ale yeast - anyone have a recommendation for 
the second one-gallon batch?  Maybe a one-gallon mead with apple juice? 

Cheers 

- --gk 

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