Good Afternoon - Flixon Breweries Here - Haylp!

[Flixonbrews]

Good afternoon, Flixon Breweries Here,

Roddy's turbo cider in the bucket. Just tested it today. We've done 40 pints worth, all in pure Lidl apple juice and a EC-1118 yeast and some yeast nutrients. It's been heated to around 21-22 degrees throughout primary fermentation for 10 days.

We forgot to put the bobber in it, but we've took a bit out today, enough to test it on the palate and with the bobber stick. The bobber stick reading was 1.030 ish, and it tasted like cider, but it tasted a bit weak.

Now then, do you think we should just leave it for longer, or should we bang some sugar into it? It's no good having fizzy glassfuls of tramp juice that won't make us wobble is it?

Any advice would be much appreciated by the Master Brewers here at Flixon Breweries. For now, we've sealed her back up, and zipped up her high viz jacket.

Ten four, over and out. :thumb:

 

[serum]

Leave it longer, it'll have further to ferment so it'll get a bit more poke to it. Sugar will weaken the glorious flavour of lidl's finest apples.

I'm sure you'll be sleeping on park benches and picking fights with imaginary people in no time.

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[chewie]

It still has a ways to go, try it again this time next week.

 

[Godsdog]

Cider more than beer benefits from a much longer maturation

 

[Flixonbrews]

Leave it longer, it'll have further to ferment so it'll get a bit more poke to it. Sugar will weaken the glorious flavour of lidl's finest apples.

I'm sure you'll be sleeping on park benches and picking fights with imaginary people in no time.

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Brilliant. I'll contact NCP for some advice on the nearest stairwell to my mate's garage... ahem... I mean, Flixon Breweries Head Office and Microbrewery Central. :whistle:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Flixon you should post a "Flixon brew days thread" in the brew-days forum the stuff you post cracks me up. :lol:

 

[terrym]

Cider more than beer benefits from a much longer maturation

+1 on that.
About 12 months in the case of my one and only turbo cider. :whistle:

 

[serum]

+1 on that.
About 12 months in the case of my one and only turbo cider. :whistle:

That's a shame. Looks like it'll be a while before he's urinating in any car parks.

 

[Flixonbrews]

That's a shame. Looks like it'll be a while before he's urinating in any car parks.

There's no way tramp juice is taking up a year in our bucket. We need it for our red wine run. :mrgreen:

 

[Godsdog]

There's no way tramp juice is taking up a year in our bucket. We need it for our red wine run. :mrgreen:

Its not the bucket that it will be maturing in,keg/ bottle yes

 

[Tanzanite]

Its not the bucket that it will be maturing in,keg/ bottle yes

Godsdog. I think you have it wrong in the Flixon case, it goes bucket to belly not bucket to bottle.:whistle: