Brewnight: Strawberry and Lime TC

ash132 said:

OK, so gravity down to about 1000 now, I guess it near done in the primary. The acid taste seem to have subsided a quite bit, though it still tastes too much like a wine for my liking.

Can I add more AJ in at this point or maybe in the secondary to get it away from the wine taste? I'm wondering if making the cider to the 8% abv recipe has caused it to taste too much like wine instead of cider and therefore watering down or adding AJ will help take the edge off the taste?

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Roddy said:

Probably heavy on the lime juice, less is more on this brew I think

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Roddy said:

Back in the game.....

25L of Cider popped on tonight

15L of Lidl vitafit
2 x 440ml Lowicz strawberry
1L strong tea (5 bag)
5tsp pectolase dissolved in some warm water
Juice of 6 fresh limes (one for you Mrc ☺)
Cider yeast with sweetener

Warmed 3L of aj and lowicz in pan until hot

Made up tea, left to stew

Emptied AJ into coopers FV
added hot AJ/lowicz
added tea
topped up to 25L with cold tap water
added lime juice
temp about 22deg
stirred in cider yeast with sweetener I got on ebay (thread on here somewhere)

Sg 1.040
intending to prime with another bottle of lowicz strawb, so est abv 6%

boom 😃

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Adrian2101 said:

very daft question as I am rubbish at maths but what would this recipe be to make in a 5lt DJ how would I convert thanks in advance :)

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oo7tk said:

Going to give this a go as my very first cider recipe and just wondering is it just the syrup you used to prime or did you use sugar also using the batch priming method..

Thanks

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oo7tk said:

Going to give this a go as my very first cider recipe and just wondering is it just the syrup you used to prime or did you use sugar also using the batch priming method..

Thanks

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