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Cider Digest #0275
Subject: Birch Beer
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 9:01:58 EDT
From: casey!aspen!joem@uu6.psi.com (Joe Mulligan)
Have any of the digest readers ever attempted to make Birch Beer?
I would like to try, and have a few questions:
- what time of year do you tap the tree ?
- how long can you tap for without harming the tree ?
- what should the starting gravity be (I am assuming you boil the sap
to increase the gravity).
- is sugar or honey added ? How much (I know this is related to the
specific gravity question)?
- type of yeast ?
- add yeast nutrients ?
- should I do anything to the tree before plugging the tap hole ?
- should I add the green, flavorful "stuff" which is under the top layer
of bark?
Thank you.
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joem@nrd.ups.com Joe Mulligan
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 08:45:18 PDT
From: davidr@ursula.ee.pdx.edu
Subject: Forwarded message from the homebrew digest
Here's a message from the homebrew digest. Perhaps someone from
this digest can help. (E-mail to:
Anderso_A%55W3.CCBRIDGE.SEAE.mrouter@seaa.navsea.navy.mil
since he doesn't read this digest)
>Date: 12 Apr 93 03:23:37 EST
>From: "Anderso_A" <Anderso_A%55W3.CCBRIDGE.SEAE.mrouter@seaa.navsea.navy.mil>
>Subject: Fermenting Apple Cider
>
>
> Greetings,
> I had a friend over last night to help me with a Steam
> beer I was making. He had with him a gallon bottle of apple
> juice he had picked up for his son. He decided to
> experiment with the apple juice by re-hydrating an extra
> packet of dry yeast I gave him, pitching it into the apple
> juice bottle, and putting a cork with an airlock on top.
> This morning I got up and it's bubbling vigorously (I wish
> my beers fermented that quickly!).
>
> My questions:
> 1. Does anyone know how this "cider" will turn out?
> 2. I never measured OG, so does anyone know how much alcohol
> should be created?
> 3. It may be too late, but is there anything that can be
> done now to make this concoction more palatable?
>
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