berrycrumble
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We've finally bought our first tip of a home, and we're lucky enough to have some apple trees with it. After home-brewing our way though university (me foraged wine and my other half beer) we thought we'd give cider a go!
Our unknown variety of red eating apples were sat after picking about a week. We chopped, blitzed, crushed and juiced them, added them to sterilised demijohns with a campden tablet. We then proceeded to make a "ginger bug" which I had not attempted before. The recipe we followed is this one; https://www.growforagecookferment.com/fermented-apple-ginger-beer/.
We added the bug to the demijohn with a cup of castor sugar after 3 days, however within 13 hours our ginger and apple beer has turned swamp green! I can't smell anything particularly horrific. I Any ideas on what's happened? Have used no metals in the process and other than an old wooden apple press borrowed from a friend we've only used plastic and glass in the process.
Any cider Sherlock's out for us? I'm laughing just uploading these pictures, what a contrast!
Our unknown variety of red eating apples were sat after picking about a week. We chopped, blitzed, crushed and juiced them, added them to sterilised demijohns with a campden tablet. We then proceeded to make a "ginger bug" which I had not attempted before. The recipe we followed is this one; https://www.growforagecookferment.com/fermented-apple-ginger-beer/.
We added the bug to the demijohn with a cup of castor sugar after 3 days, however within 13 hours our ginger and apple beer has turned swamp green! I can't smell anything particularly horrific. I Any ideas on what's happened? Have used no metals in the process and other than an old wooden apple press borrowed from a friend we've only used plastic and glass in the process.
Any cider Sherlock's out for us? I'm laughing just uploading these pictures, what a contrast!