Cider Digest #0614

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Subject: Cider Digest #614, 25 September 1996 
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Cider Digest #614                                         25 September 1996 

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                      Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor 

Contents: 
  Re: Cider Digest #613, 18 September 1996 (Michael S Ferdinando) 
  Re: Sweet Cider (Pickleman) 
  Kegging in Stainless Steel ("ERNIES (604) 363-6371") 
  grape tannin (John B Gilmour) 
  Cider Styles listing (Morgan Miller) 

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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #613, 18 September 1996 
From: msf2@cornell.edu (Michael S Ferdinando) 
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:24:40 -0400 

> 
>Subject: Cider is clear bottles 
>From: Brian Black <b.black@worldnet.att.net> 
>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:41:55 +0000 
> 
>Has there been any evidence of clear bottles harming cider? I understand 
>that Seven Sisters uses/has used, and I am looking for technical info on 
>this. Any ideas? 
> 

I've been bottling cider in clear glass soft drink bottles (mostly 16-oz 
Pepsi and Coke bottles) for years, and have never had a problem.  A couple 
sat out in the sun for a few hours this summer, and there was no 
degradation in flavor. 

 
Michael S Ferdinando 
Production Control Assistant--Cornellcard 
Cornell University Office of the Bursar, 260 Day Hall, Ithaca NY 14853 
607-255-8135  //  msf2@cornell.edu  //  fax: 607-255-6442 

After I am dead, I would rather people ask why I have no monument than why 
I have one.          --Cato the Elder (234-139 BC) 

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Subject: Re: Sweet Cider 
From: Pickleman <wrp2@axe.humboldt.edu> 
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:16 -0700 (PDT) 

Hi, 
        I did finally try a stevia cider.  Actually, I made a tea w/ the  
stevia herb and added it to a glass of cider.  It tasted pretty bad.   
appearantly the herb in leaf form imparts a slight bitter taste along  
with its cloying sweetness.  Not at all what I like to taste in cider.   
The tea also had incredible body.  I may have to try some of this in  
beer.  I think it could make an interesting sweet stout.  As for cider,  
back to the drawing board. 

The Pickleman 

..I dress this way so that nobody will ever ask,   
        "Excuse me, but do you work here?" 

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Subject: Kegging in Stainless Steel 
From: "ERNIES (604) 363-6371" <ernies@ios.bc.ca> 
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:00:27 -0700 (PDT) 

I've been making cider for quite a few years now, but always 
bottling the results.  A beer making friend of mine has  
offered me one of his kegs to store/serve some of this years  
production.  We've had no trouble with beer in these kegs and  
I know stainless is used extensively in winemaking, but  
because of the higher acidity in cider, could there be some  
sort of leaching (metallic taste) problem using cider in these  
kegs? 

Ernie Sargent 
ernies@ios.bc.ca 

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Subject: grape tannin 
From: John B Gilmour <jbgilm@malthus.morton.wm.edu> 
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:07:23 -0400 (EDT) 

 
The raw apple cider I can get most easily is lacking in tannin.  I bought  
a small container of grape tannin at a wine and beer making store.  Does  
anyone know how much powdered grape tannin to add to five gallons of  
cider to perk it up without ruining it? 

Thanks,  John Gilmour 

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Subject: Cider Styles listing 
From: incider@teleport.com (Morgan Miller) 
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 15:03:53 -0700 

In conducting a cider tasting, we felt that the American Homebrewers Cider 
styles list was limited, so we came up with a more inclusive list for cider 
styles. Please let us know what you think of it, comments, corrections, 
etc. Its posted on the Cider Space web site at 

http://www.teleport.com/~incider/ciderstyles.html 

Thanks, 

Morgan Miller 
Cider Space 

PS William Rhyne/Sonoma Cyder I have your tastings sheets but have lost 
your address. E-mail me! 

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