Hi all
One of my first attempts at a cherry cider was 22ltr of 70/30 asda sp apple and cherrygood, with a 250ml bottle of holland and barratt montewhatsit cherry concentrate in it.
I was making it all in a single fv so had the cherry concentrate in from the start. I also added too much sugar and underprimed it (priming drops in the bottle) so ended up with a barely fizzy 10% vaguelly cherryish tasting apple wine hehe....
now, having done a few more other ciders/kits/wows etc.. and to refine the process I plan to
Make up with all asda sp apple, add sugar if required to take it to about 6%, rack off to carboy once fermented out, then add cherry concentrate (h&b stuff again or the lowitz polish stuff, if they do a cherry), add priming solution and bottle
Comments anyone ?
have I got a better chance of keeping the cherry flavour by adding it after the primary fermentation ?
One of my first attempts at a cherry cider was 22ltr of 70/30 asda sp apple and cherrygood, with a 250ml bottle of holland and barratt montewhatsit cherry concentrate in it.
I was making it all in a single fv so had the cherry concentrate in from the start. I also added too much sugar and underprimed it (priming drops in the bottle) so ended up with a barely fizzy 10% vaguelly cherryish tasting apple wine hehe....
now, having done a few more other ciders/kits/wows etc.. and to refine the process I plan to
Make up with all asda sp apple, add sugar if required to take it to about 6%, rack off to carboy once fermented out, then add cherry concentrate (h&b stuff again or the lowitz polish stuff, if they do a cherry), add priming solution and bottle
Comments anyone ?
have I got a better chance of keeping the cherry flavour by adding it after the primary fermentation ?