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  1. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    This is the thread that just keeps giving. I find myself coming back to it frequently. This time because I wanted to make half a gallon to add to a stuck 5 gallons of scrumpy.
  2. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    It will have no mouth feel, just one strong cup of stewed tea per gallon.
  3. vassili

    Another desperado question

    Good afternoon everyone, Not been posting again recently as all i have been doing us scrumpy and turbo. However I have recently found desperado! And I quite like it. So I am looking at making a clone as its very expensive off the shelf. Reading through previous posts there's not the usual...
  4. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    It really does seem that the turbo is a very reliable recipe. I now have eight different trials on the go, should be bottling five of them next weekend. Tried honey, muscavado, Demerara, all the above with a tin of pears in syrup. They all appear stronger than I expect though.o_O
  5. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    Sorry I forgot to mention that the weirdest thing is that turbo made in this fashion has by far the most distinct flavour of apple of all the ciders I've ever made.
  6. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    Evening all. Well I have bottled my first batch which was fortified with 100 grams of Demerara to a demijohn. I am drinking it way too young, but I still completely blown away by the quality, taste and body of this. I produce at least a couple of hundred gallons of real scrumpy from our own...
  7. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    Here's Shirley bassets Idea. There's going to be a huge amount of sludge at the end of this one :laugh8: Used some of this year's runny honey
  8. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    Interesting! I like the sound of that.
  9. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    Varying stages of turbo, some with honey others with Demerara or muscavado sugar to pep them up a bit. Also my first batch finally bottled, one tap granulated added to each bottle.
  10. vassili

    Elderflower wine

    She has done a similar champagne version but totally got it wrong at the bottling stage! Same as her "apple juice" bottles exploding everywhere.
  11. vassili

    Elderflower wine

    Till there's literally not a bubble. Hers will stay in the bucket for a week, then if it's calmed down a bit it will get taken off the solids and into a demijohn where it will be left till bottling.
  12. vassili

    Elderflower wine

    Anyone started any this year yet? My wife picked a barrow full today. I got home from shooting and found the kitchen in complete devastation. She was only going to make elderflower cordial but then decided she fancied a medium to sweet wine. She couldn't wait till I got back so googled a recipe...
  13. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    Update on my first batch. Finally stopped fermenting after just over a month. This is obviously so long because I added the 100 grams of muscavado sugar to 4.5 lts if apple juice. I will bottle this the end of this week with my usual teaspoon per bottle of sugar to carbonate. Last Sunday I...
  14. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    It'll stop dreckly, or not :-) my real scrumpy I make ferments throughout most of the winter.
  15. vassili

    Gorse Wine

    It's excellent! We have made it many times over the last thirty years. As mentioned if you make it now it does have a bit of a coconut aroma. It's a bit laborious picking, but I promise it's worth it.
  16. vassili

    Rhubarb and Gooseberry

    Sounds very interesting, look forward to hearing how this turns out. Our gooseberries are looking good this year, but the rhubarb didn't do huge amounts so I made a spicy rhubarb and plum chutney, ageing still for at least four months.
  17. vassili

    How to make Turbo Cider.

    I started my first one (finally) 24 days ago. Presently it is still fermenting! :confused.: I'm sure I only put 100 grms of muscavado sugar in each demijohn. Looking forward to seeing what hellbrew I've made (one day) :laugh8:
  18. vassili

    Powered Cider Presses?

    Aw blimey now you've got me thinking! I will trawl through some pictures I took on the day.
  19. vassili

    Powered Cider Presses?

    Tried the hydro last year, it's efficient but slow and awkward. Again hired an electric hydraulic version, similar to the vigo one but from an Italian manufacturer, it was awesome. It will be our next step up but probably year after next when more of our trees have matured.
  20. vassili

    Apple Scratter / crusher

    Hi there, We hired the spiedel from our local orchard group last year, we were so impressed that this year we bought our own. Yes it's a large outlay, but it transforms half a ton of apples into a sloppy porridge in less than half an hour. We worked out that on pub prices ours paid for itself...
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