Getting Started with 1st ever attempt

[ragamuffin]

I am trying to make a simple pear and apple cider. I am doing this by pressing the fruit to get the fresh juice but I am unsure of the ratios of juice to sugar and yeast. Ive had a look around but I havent really found anything to help me with this.

 

[Marrsy86]

One of the admins will probably move this to the discussion board as it's not a how to guide :p

How much are you wanting to make in pints/litres/gallons and what kind of alcohol percentage would you be wanting ?

 

[ragamuffin]

Sorry for posting in the wrong section. I am looking for an alcohol percentage of anywhere from 5 - 6%. I have bought a cider kit that come with a can of condensed apple juice but I do not want to use this as I have excess fruit to be used up. The instructions are to use 1kg of sugar to make 40pints, but that is for concentrated juice not fresh.

I dont know how much juice that pressing will yield so I am looking for a rough ratio guide( or an example and i can work out the ratio myself)

 

[Marrsy86]

As your using apples it's hard to know what their sugar yeild is. When you have juiced them and take your Hydromiter Reading aim to these numbers as a rough guide.

1.040 = 5%
1.045 = 6%

Should be accurate enough :)

With regards to yeast a tea spoon should do for anything under 25 Litres.

Cheers

Marrsy

 

[ragamuffin]

Thank you.

I haven't found anything that simple online. Should make all the difference for em going forward.

Thanks again