irn bru cider

[jeromeserena]

hi guys.
i have been making a few diff. turbo ciders over the months some better than others.
i was wondering if i wanted to mke an irn bru flavoured one could i boil a few bottles of the drink and just add it to my apple juice and proceed from there.
any advice would be great

 

[leehorder]

would be interested in this myself, would a soda stream flavouring be any good ?

 

[jeromeserena]

never thought of that
was going to try it with the real thing maybe 20% full ft irn bru 80% apple juice

 

[screamlead]

I have 2 bottles of the new highland fizz coming over shortly so i'm going to use one bottle for a 'Irnbru' cider and one for alcho water flavour. :

 

[jeromeserena]

i am a bit confused about this
am i right in thinking if i boil irn bru it will get rid of preservatives etc then i can use as flvouring . how much do you think i woud need percentage wise
cheers all

 

[Shirazzy]

If you can get soda stream concentrate then this recipe might be good:

viewtopic.php?f=41&t=15105

but after a quick google it seems not to be easily available

 

[narmour]

Scott did his Irn Bru chew a while ago, it's here

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=32332

 

[screamlead]

Try their main site - http://www.sodastream.co.uk
For some reason i cant connect from turkey today but i have used the site and ordered flavours from there - theres loads of new ones too.

Site back up now - http://www.sodastream.co.uk/gbretail/ca ... UPS&Page=1

 

[jeromeserena]

thanks for the replies and link i will give it a go and let you know how it goes
going to use regular irn bru first to see

 

[jeromeserena]

hi all
brew is on but not doing anything been on a week now and notstarted.
hope i boiled the irn brew long enough to get rid of preservatives.
if they are still present what can i do . dont fancy boiling 40 pints of brew.
any suggesstions

 

[weepete]

Try making a yeast starter, then slowly add the must. Doubling the amount of liquid in the starter every day. I've heard this can work, never had to try it myself though.

 

[jeromeserena]

cheers i will give it a try and see how it goes some one said try 3 times the yeast and that should do it.
will try little by little and see if it gets going