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Cider Digest #0787
Subject: Cider Digest #787, 18 January 1999
From: cider-request@talisman.com
Cider Digest #787 18 January 1999
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
shelf life (Peter Elderkin)
Re: Length of time in secondary (Elke und Eckard)
re: Length of time in the secondary (Michael Cukrow)
Request for cider recipes ("K. Cummins")
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Subject: shelf life
From: Peter Elderkin <elderkins.apples@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 16:39:20 -0700
I have been filtering and artificially carbonating my cider for the last
several months, great results. Does anyone know the shelf life one can
expect with this method. Seems to be good so far .
Pete Elderkin
Nova Scotia
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Subject: Re: Length of time in secondary
From: Elke und Eckard <eichen@advm2.gm.fh-koeln.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:37:00 +0100
At 09'27 13.01.99 MST, you wrote:
>From: Stephen Mahala <NoSpamRental1@ptdprolog.net>
>As an extract beer brewer, I decided to try my first batch
>of "Hard Cider!" After fermentation in my primary carboy, I
>transferred over to my secondary. The cider seems to have
>settled out pretty clear, and I'm wondering how long I
>should keep it in the secondary before bottling? I intend
>to add some corn sugar at bottling time in the hope of some
>mild carbonation. Any advice is appreciated, especially
>since most of the newsgroups seem to shy away from this fine
>beverage!! Thanks in advance!!
>
>Steve M.
I bottle my cider as soon as it is clear. If I want to make carbonated
cider, I dissolve 200 gramms sugar in 10 liter cider, add champagne yeast
and fill into champagne bottles, closed with those special plastic corks
with metal wire. I start fermentation in a warm room, after a week or so I
put the bottles in my (cold) cellar and let them rest for some months upside
down. I ice the top of the bottles, remove the corks with the iced yeast and
close again.
(excuse my bad english, I hope I used the right words)
Eckard
Elke Eichen-Witte und Eckard Witte
http://members.xoom.com/eckard_witte
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Subject: re: Length of time in the secondary
From: Michael Cukrow <mcukrow@nac.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:34:17 -0500
I generally keep my ciders in the secondary 2-3 months, though I have
only made 3 so far (2 are still bottle conditioning so I don't know how
they turned out yet). The first one, after bottle conditioning for 6
months was very good - after a year, excellent!
Mike Cukrow
Lake Hiawatha, NJ
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Subject: Request for cider recipes
From: "K. Cummins" <kcummins@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:13:15 -0800 (PST)
Hello to all,
I've recently started making my own cider and would like to explore
cooking with cider. I've had little success looking for recipes on the
web--anybody have some ideas for me?
Your (hard) cider recipes would be greatly appreciated! I am especially
interested in main course items. Feel free to respond to me directly or
through cider digest.
Cheers,
Kevin
kcummins@u.washington.edu
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