Cider Digest #0487

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 · 7 months ago

Subject: Pear Cider Recipe Help 
Date: 20 Oct 1994 16:24:51 -0800 
From: "Scott Majdecki" <Scott_Majdecki@pdxml1.mentorg.com> 

                      Pear Cider Recipe Help 
A while ago I read a recipe for making hard cider and flavoring it with 
frozen juice concentrate. My wife is EXTREMELY fond of Wyder's Pear Cider 
and I was going to take a crack at something emulating that. Please make 
any suggestions to my guess at a recipe below: 

5 gal fresh pressed cider 
camden tablets to pasturize 
1-lb honey 
1pk dry champagne yeast 
1tsp yeast nutrient 
2 cans frozen pear juice concentrate 

1 1/2 lb corn sugar 

Add crushed camden tablets to cider. Let sit 24 hr. Add honey and pitch 
yeast w/ nutrient. Let sit forever and a day (until fermented and settled 
adequately). Rack clear cider to secondary. Add juice concentrate. Let sit 
another month or so. Boil sugar in 1 pt cider. Prime and bottle. 

Big questions: 
 1) When to add juice concentrate? As above or differently? 
 2) How to prime? Last batch primed simularly was flat though recipie used 
5lb honey and produced 26proof hard cider!! 

Thanks ahead for your help. 

Scott Majdecki 
scott_majdecki@mentorg.com 

 

 
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