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Subject: Cider Digest #712, 21 December 1997
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Cider Digest #712 21 December 1997
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
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A US cider standard ("Luedtke, Jim @ MIN")
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Subject: A US cider standard
From: "Luedtke, Jim @ MIN" <jluedtke@isisys.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:48:00 -0500
What commercially available ciders available in the US are true enough
to the UK traditions to be used as a standard? My apologies if this
subject has come up recently, but the extensive taste testing reported
last week underscores the issue for me.
I have made dry ciders now and again for over 10 years. The first batch
I tossed out because of the excessive sharpness. Then I found out about
malo-lactic fermentation, now exhibit more patience toward the process,
and am relatively pleased with the results. However, it is quite dry,
with few recognizable 'apple' qualities, and no doubt quite different
from the traditional English farmhouse ciders that sound so good.
I can research the traditional apples and methods at libraries, but
still have not found a cider which tastes like the description of the
farmhouse ciders. Most of the US ciders taste like apple pop with a
yeast aftertaste. Making Woodpecker my model would be the bland leading
the bland, but the only other British version I've seen in Minnesota is
Weston's, and last week's tasting trashed it also.
Maybe I'm just too fussy, but there has got to be something better out
there. Suggestions?
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