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Cider Digest #0629
Subject: Cider Digest #629, 29 November 1996
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Cider Digest #629 29 November 1996
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
Goverment Reactions / preserving (Derek Lyons)
cider report ("Gene R. Rankin")
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Subject: Goverment Reactions / preserving
From: Derek Lyons <elde@hurricane.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:17:21 -0800 (PST)
At 09:02 PM 11/25/96 MST, you wrote:
>
>The curious thing to me--maybe I've just missed a key news report--is that
>I still haven't seen anything that pins down the cause of the Odwalla
>problem. I would think you'd want to know what caused a problem before
>you'd set out to solve it.
>
Dick;
It's in the nature of our Goverment to Take Action. Regardless of it's
relation to the cause/event. It looks awful good in the polls don'tcha
know! (I'm minded of a recent editorial cartoon... it shows a poor sod
stripped to his skivvies going thru a CAT scanner, while his luggage is
being torn apart. To one side is a Congressman saying, 'You can't blame
Flight 800 on mechanical failure!, We just mandated all this cool new
anti-terrorist stuff!'.)
But, back on topic; I'm planning on making some mulled apple juice for
gifts this christmas, (For my non drinking friends). How best to preserve
it? Boil then bottle? Campden tablets? Both?
Derek
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Subject: cider report
From: "Gene R. Rankin" <grankin@itis.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:12:59 -0600
Some time back, I asked what I'd gotten after having fermented 5 gal.
of unfiltered cider bought @ an orchard, amade from an unkown mix of
apple varieties with champagne yeast. I double-fermented it, pitching
some clarifier between fermentations, primed it VERY slightly & put it
away in Grolsch bottles. It became beautifully clear and extremely
alcoholic, almost too "bite-y" to drink. I was advised to let it sit
for a year. A year has passed since bottling. I cooled one & poured
it. Magnificent. Pale yellow, superb carbonation, faint apple nose,
very dry & champagne-like. Gonna do it again, as soon as the
fermenters are done with the ale & it gets put away in kegs.
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End of Cider Digest #629
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