Cheers mate
There's the thread
http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57932
This was my second batch I only used 750 ml of squash as its really sweet but it's a personal thing so defo try it as the instructions state then mess around for all it costs to experiment [emoji106]
I've got a couple on the go. One was an experiment using a supermarket apple juice (3 litres) and raspberry syrup (750ml) that had preservatives. I simmered the syrup and left to cool overnight.
Next day heated a bit of the apple juice, added tea bags. Put that in a DJ and then added yeast. I checked the gravity and it was something stupid like 1080. Nothing happened. I thought I might have the temperature too high when I added the yeast.
So I added a different yeast. Nothing happened. I then was too busy to do anything to it so left it on the laundry floor. About 4 days later I walked past it and it was fermenting. Since then I've shaken
it up a few times and it's fermenting. It's just sat there for the last week and I plan to syphon it off soon.
* just bottled it actually. Forgot to take a final gravity reading. I've got a sneaky suspicion this one didn't finish fermenting properly. I've hidden it at the back of the garage in case of bottle bombs.
I've used swing tops. I read somewhere the excess gas is more like to escape through the seal, although I have no idea how true this could be. One bottle is a PET though so I can check for carbonation.
Another I started was a turbo cider. I was quite excited about this as I was adding pectolase, malic acid and glycerin. Then I realised that out of the 12 or so of juice I bought, that six litres was only
35% juice. I considered asking my 11 year old if he'd drink it and I could get some more, but decided to soldier on. That's been in the FV for 11 days now and pretty much finished.
I've no idea how it'll turn out considering the 35% juice content.
Then this week grapefruit juice is discounted so as soon as the cider is bottled I'll make a start on 12 litres of the grapefruit brew. I've only got 2 bottles left of the original batch and I've promised to keep
one of them for a friend. It really is very nice.
what kind of turn a round have you got on your cider from when it starts fermenting to drinking it?
thanks man, was curious as im going to bottle mine soon and wondering how long i can hold out from drinking. will leave it a month an then give them a try i think.
p.s you poor sod just going to work, been sat for the last hour drinking wine thinking about what i shall do this weekend.
Try it after a couple of weeks. It might be bitter.
Just back in from the garage sorting the Grolsch bottles.
9am Saturday morning here. I don't usually work Saturday, but someone is taking 2 or 3 months off with an unspecified condition. We're all casual staff so we're all doing a few extra shifts so the Boss doesn't take someone else on and she can come back to her job. We're hoping she comes back fit and well, but in the meantime we're all dong a bit extra.
Then come home, bottle the cider and then sit down to watch the (not so) Mighty Mariners. Hopefully we can pull something out the hat.
do you follow football? We've signed Luis Garcia for the remainder of the season.
In Lidl today ...
... saw 100% Apple Juice at 50p a litre ...
... so this afternoon ...
... 4 litres + some nutrient + some pectolase + some Ale Yeast in DJ = "Who knows?" :thumb: :thumb:
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