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Subject: Cider Digest #559, 15 October 1995
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Cider Digest #559 15 October 1995
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
Great American Beer Festival Winners (Shawn Steele)
Commercial Cider (Jim Dorsch)
What is cider anyway? ("Jonny Miner")
Weird smell (Peter Matra)
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From: prh4@cornell.edu (Peter R. Hoover)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:21:43 -0500
Hi all,
Well, this year's batch (56 gallons) is bubbling away in the primary
fermenter. Made from 3 bushels crabapples, 3 bushels incredibly astringent
hard pears, 14 bushels mixed Greening, Cortland, Northern Spy. Added two
gallons of sour cherry pits and skins from the freezer, left over from
making cherry wine a couple of months back, and 10 pounds sugar. Starting
gravity 18 Brix. Quantity way down this year, but taste is outta sight,
probably due to the drought we've had all summer. My well is still dry, but
it looks like the winter will be suitably wet. Happy cidering all!
Peter Hoover
prh4@cornell.edu
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Subject: Great American Beer Festival Winners
From: Shawn Steele <shawn@aob.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:15:51 -0600
The winners list of the 1995 GABF winners is available by sending
e-mail to info@aob.org and including the key word "WINNERS" in the body
of the message.
- - shawn
Shawn Steele
Information Systems Administrator
Association of Brewers (303) 447-0816 x 118 (voice)
736 Pearl Street (303) 447-2825 (fax)
PO Box 1679 shawn@aob.org (e-mail)
Boulder, CO 80306-1679 info@aob.org (aob info)
U.S.A. http://www.aob.org/aob (web)
Note: When replying to my messages, please include enough of my
message so that I know what you're replying to! :-)
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Subject: Commercial Cider
From: Jim_Dorsch@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Dorsch)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:54:32 -0400
I'm writing about cider for the Washington Post. Please let me know if
you know of any new ciders on the market since I last wrote on the
subject last spring, and feel free to give constructive criticism based
on the articles I wrote by myself and with Greg Kitsock on cider for
Beer, The Magazine, Ale Street News, etc. In particular, I'd appreciate
contacts at commercial cideries, especially the newer ones.
Is Wyder's currently being made? I know Iain Wyder left the company,
and I heard they weren't doing well without him. What are the new
ciders? Hornsby's (Gallo?)? Others?
Thanks everybody, Jim
- --- Maximus/2 3.00
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Subject: What is cider anyway?
From: "Jonny Miner" <woofhead@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 15:26:54 UT
Here's a newbie question. What is cider anyway? When you go to the
supermarket, there is always apple juice and apple cider next to each other
on the shelf. Both are non-alcaholic. What is the difference between these
two?
- --Jonny
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Subject: Weird smell
From: Peter Matra <stalkwol@cloud9.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 07:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
This is my first cider and it seems to be fermenting really
rapidly. I have done sucessful meads, and I have a question. At the first
initial two to three days when this started fermenting I smelled a faint
hint of that rotten egg/sulphur/stink bomb smell. After about a week it
has gone away and I can just smell alcohol/cider smell. Very weird. Can
anyone tell me what this is? and what kind of chemical reactionc occurred?
Thanks, Pete
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