Cider Digest #0299

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· 8 months ago

Subject: Re: sour cider (Diane Palme x2617) 
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 11:06:13 -0400 
From: aderr@BBN.COM 

>  I posted to the newsgroup a while ago telling of my first try at a 
> cider.  Unfortunately, it has turned out somewhat less than expected. 
> It has been fermenting for about a month now and is starting to taste 
> just like apple cider vinegar! 

Well, I can't smell and taste your cider to know for sure, but I had a 
similar experience with my first batch. I used honey, brown sugar and 
spices and it took a LONG time to finish fermenting. When it did 
finish, it smelled like weak vinegar and tasted sour. I thought it had 
gone bad, but figured "what the heck" and I bottled six 12oz bottles 
worth (I threw the rest away). I tasted it about a year later, and it 
was delicious! Kind of like a dry white wine with the aroma of apples,  
honey and spice. I kicked myself for throwing the rest away! 

So, unless it's REALLY off, I'd suggest bottling it and waiting for 
six months to a year. (Then if it IS vinegar, have a huge salad party 
or make vast quantities of pickles!) 

Good luck, 
AD 

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 08:40:17 -0500 
From: forrest@nlbbs.com 
Subject: RE:sour cider 

Diane Palme writes: 

>It has been fermenting for about a month now and is starting to taste just 
>like apple cider vinegar!  :-(   

Well, if it's truely vinegar then there's not much to do other than open a 
pickle factory. However, I have had batches of cider in the past which 
tasted pretty darn awful within the first month or two and then six to 
eight months later they tasted super. What kind of sterilization did you 
use? 

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|Forrest Snyder            The Northern Lights BBS   | 
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