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Cider Digest #0824
Subject: Cider Digest #824, 27 August 1999
From: cider-request@talisman.com
Cider Digest #824 27 August 1999
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
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Re: Cider Digest #823, 21 August 1999 (GREATFERM@aol.com)
Re: Cider Digest #748, 9 June 1998 (James Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #823, 21 August 1999
From: GREATFERM@aol.com
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:19:25 EDT
In a message dated 08/21/1999 7:38:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
cider-request@talisman.com writes:
<< f two minds whether you should add Campden tablets to the water right
away. On the one hand, if the barrel has been around for a while, it might
need a good dose of sanitation. On the other hand, this would soak a lot
of SO2 into the wood and it might take a while to leave. >>
It would be delightful if SO2 were that persistent. Unfortunately, the active
component is a gas, and will escape rather than soak in. And once the salt,
KSO4 or NASO4 is rehydrated, I'm pretty sure it loses the ability to produce
more gas, so even if it drys out and leaves crystals it will be inactive.
Whiskey, however, does soak in. We had a commercial barrel-shaver who got
into quite a bit of trouble a few years back, for pressing out the booze from
shavings and selling it. I think he got about a liter per barrel. Some people
of a certain ethnicity got used to the flavor and would add about a fifth of
bourbon to their red wine....
Jay Conner
Greatferm
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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #748, 9 June 1998
From: James Anderson <jcander1@facstaff.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:08:41 -0500
Dear friends, I have made cider for many years--in New York, Maine and now
Wisconsin. I have always used apples picked after the first frost--late fall
apples. This year, for the first time, I am making some cider from late
summer apples. I am wondering if anyone can advise me as to what
differences there might be. Can I expect good quality hard cider from
apples (4 or 5 varieties) picked in late August? (I would be more specific
about the varieties but I don't know what they are-- these are from old
abandoned orchards.)
Reagrds, Jim
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