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Cider Digest #0294
Subject: first of the season
Date: 06 Jul 1993 12:22:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Atkinson 356-0269 <PATKINSON@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 12:19:00 PDT
From: "Philip Atkinson"@mr.gov.bc.ca
Subject: first of the season
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Hi Everyone
I couldn't wait for the apples to be ready this year so I went
ahead and made a gallon of cider using frozen juice from the
local supermarket. It has turned out to be quite good, if
somewhat tart. Here's the recipe:
4 tins frozen apple juice concentrate (I used Welch's. It's a
Canadian brand and costs about twice what the cheapest brand
does, but it's a much better quality juice.)
Complex B vitamin tablet
Champagne yeast
Cup cold strong tea (Tetley's) for the tannin
I was a bit worried in case there were preservatives in the
concentrate, so I boiled it for about 15 minutes. When it was
cool, I topped the concentrate up to about a gallon added about
half-a-kilo of inverted white sugar as syrup, the crushed
vitamin pill and the tea and sprinkled the yeast on top. It took
off after a day or so and fermented down to just below zero.
(Sorry, I forgot to record the Original Gravity!) That only took
two days - the house is a bit on the warm side this time of year
- and I racked it into the secondary for a month. It is crystal
clear and I have bottled it with about 2tbs invert white sugar.
I had removed about a wineglass worth before priming and it
tasted tart but clean and very appley (is that a word?) Can't
wait till it gets a bit fizzy.
Who else is at it? Or are you all waiting for the fall and the
new (cheap) apples?
Phil Atkinson
Victoria, BC
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