Questions tagged [cider]
A fermented beverage made from apple juice
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First time cider is very tart and acidic, any fixes?
first time cider maker. I recently pressed cooking apples and elderberries into a cider mix, fermented in a bucket for a week with an air gap bung until the bubbles stopped and transferred to bottles ...
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Raw vs cheap honey for a turbo cyser
I'm planning on brewing a cyser using 4L of preservative free apple juice, Lalvin EC-1118 yeast and ~500g of honey.
Would you advise using a raw and unfiltered honey or just a regular off the ...
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Making turbo cider with pressé
I've made a turbo cider with 3L apple juice from concentrate, 500ml of elderflower cordial and 750ml elderflower pressé. None contained preservatives.
I used the cider yeast as instructed on the ...
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Regulating Temperature of Cider Fermentation
I started a batch of Vimto turbo cider yesterday (22/01/23). It's currently very cold in the UK and I'm concerned the low temperature will negatively impact the brew. I've got the fermentation bin on ...
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Method to measure specific gravity above refractometer range?
I purchased this refractometer for use in brewing hard cider. The recipe I'm using involves adding sugar and then boiling down the juice by about 1/3. After reducing the liquid, the specific gravity ...
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Under fermentation
I recently tried fermenting pure apple juice. I didn't add sugar to reach my goal for ABV. I took enough juice out to use to make a starter, but my yeast was weak. It was close to expiration, so I ...
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Store Bought Pasturized Cider Has "auto" Fermented, Safe To Drink?
I bought some pasteurized cider from a grocery store that was sourced from a local apple farm. The jug has been sitting in my refrigerator unopened since I got it.
To my surprise, after a few weeks ...
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Turbo cider 3 day fermentation, wonder if it's died?
I made a batch of turbo cider last Sunday (2022/10/02) and it slowly started to ferment over the next three days, peaking at about an inch of foam on top. Please see below for photos.
However I ...
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New to cider making. Apples treated with lemon juice
I processed 100lbs apples for pie filling, apple butter, whole chunks with cinnamon, etc.
I have a lot more in the freezer, but they were doused with lemon juice to keep them from browning until the ...
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No pre-fermentation gravity reading
I didn't take a gravity reading before my cider started to ferment. The recipe I followed said it would yield a ~9% cider, however I only put in about 85% of the sugar it specified.
Is there any way ...
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Fermentation growing too fast for bin
I started fermenting my first batch of turbo cider yesterday (10/07/2022). I'm using this this 5L fermentation bucket but the foam has already creeping up to the lid. It's very hot in England right ...
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Wild Ferment Cider never fermented
This is my second time doing 5 gallons of wild-fermented cider. Both years I used fresh pressed apples from a local orchard. Last year I had no problems. After two or three weeks at room temperature, ...
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Can cider go bad?
This is my first try at making cider. I had great results from fermentation. I was short of some things like a hrdometer so it was reacted off into 2 car boys and sealed with airlocks stored in a dark ...
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How to do I mitigate diacetyl in cider that developed during secondary fermentation?
About 10 days after transferring a cider to secondary, it developed a faint diacetyl aroma. I moved it to a warmer location (~70degF) for a few days for a diacetyl rest, but the smell is now more ...
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Cloudiness in cider
Hi this is my first batch of cider from pressed apples. 28 days in, and it’s cloudy, still tastes a bit sweet, 1.020 on hydrometer, put in some pectinase enzymes, and still a bit cloudy. What should ...
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What do you do about high cider FG?
I went ahead and tried one of Mangrove Jack's cider kits — the raspberry and mango one if anyone is interested. Shoved the fermentation bucket into the garage, and checked in after a couple of weeks. ...
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Any good Wild Fermentation for beer and cider sites, forums, recipes, and or books for beginners
I have a few fields with different fruits from grapes to dragon fruits, and I am an amateur homebrewer and want to get into wild Fermentation for ciders, fruit wines and later for beer after I learn ...
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Making Lazy "Cider"
I was making some apple vinegar and decided to just try and make a bit of apple "cider" while I was doing it.
I'll be honest its not really cider. I just have pulped a few apples mixed in a ...
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Ice cider - fermentation won't start, extreme acidity reported
I'm making a batch of ice cider, from apples from my own trees (not shop-bought juice). No preservatives. The constituent apples are early this year, and most of this batch is windfalls; 55% green ...
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What are the stages of flavor development/aging for a brettanomyces apple cider?
Recipe:
1 gallon apple
juice yeast: WLP648
lemon juice
wine tannin
nutrients (not staggered)
OG: 1.048
Pitched yeast at 70f but I turned it up to 80f after a couple days
After 2 weeks, the gravity ...
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Apple cider clearing up after just a few days
I did an experiment with a couple brands of baker's yeast and I know that my conditions aren't optimal, but as I said, it's an experiment and it will probably taste horrible. But still, my ingredients ...
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I didn't add yeast nutrients to my cider is this going to be a problem?
So I didn't put any yeast nutrient into my cider and I was wondering if this is going to be a problem? I put in EC-1118 yeast packet into a 5 gallon carboy of juice. I have never made cider before and ...
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Problem with cider not fermenting
When making cider...
We had pressed apples and put juice in a container with a lid (airtight) (forgot about bubbler).
Added the yeast after 1 day.
Changed the lid on day 2 to one with a bubbler.
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Is my home made cider safe?
I pressed apple cider last year and added nothing.... I just left it in 15 liter jugs covered with cheese cloth and paper towel... it smells like alcoholic cider, tastes pretty good, and is dark rich ...
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Freshly pressed apple cider turned into jello overnight
I have a problem with my french style hard apple cider homebrew; it has turned into jello!
Apples were collected 6-7 weeks ago since they were ripe and had started to drop from the trees, and were ...
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When to rack my bubble-less cider and can I rack it into a bag in a box?
I recently pressed a some garden apples into two buckets of cider.
The first bucket has been air sealed in a fermentation bucket with an airlock for 2 weeks.
As explained in another thread I have ...
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Cider n00b questions: excessive headspace, yeast and airlock
I'm a complete homebrew n00b and I need help answering a couple of questions.
I have pressed my garden apples into 2 gallons of juice. It is now is the shed in a 3 gallon bucket. My questions are..
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New to cider making and have some questions
I thought I'd try ferementing a gallon of pure apple juice (in the glass jug, straight from the store). About 11 days ago, I poured out some juice, added a cup of sucrose, shook it, pitched some cider ...
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Refractometer correction for cider making
I have a refractometer for measuring my OG and FG for my home brews. Eventually, I found out about wort correction. Are cider and wort too different to use the same correction tool?
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Sour tasting cider with bits floating on top
This is my first time brewing hard cider.
My cider is a yellow/brown colour, smells and tastes a bit sour (think apple cider vinegar), is still sweet but also has these funky bits floating ontop.
I ...
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Can cider ferment in under a week?
I started a cider brew one week ago and when taking the gravity today it was 1.000, the starting gravity was 1.065 which according to the calculators online I have an abv of 8.5% (ish). Is it possible ...
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What should I do after the primary fermentation of my cider?
I've just started making cider, and after 12 hours of reading I came up with a plan, but I need reassuring what should I do next:
It's nearly constantly 25°C in my flat (where I brew),
I used ...
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Can I Complete A Cider Homebrew Without Nutrients While Keeping A Decent Flavour?
I'm attempting my first homebrew this weekend. I have almost everything that I need, I'm just missing nutrients for my yeast. I'm living in a country where this isn't readily available (In fact only ...
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Did I kill my cider?
I've been brewing this cider for 8 days. It was going smooth and had a lot of krausen so I took out a bit two days ago, but now it has passed more than 48hh and I was expecting some more krausen or ...
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Can lifestyle nutrition brewer's yeast be used for making apple cider
First time making an apple cider. Which yeast products are the best to use for cider? Is there any other alternative to brewer's yeast?
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How to approximate when half the sugar has been fermented
The EC-1118 datasheet suggests a procedure wherein you pitch the full amount of yeast in 10% of the total volume of your liquid, and let it ferment until approximately half the sugar is used up, and ...
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Apple cider cloudy
I made my primary fermentation since 25 days ago SG was 1.100 ( bubbling was stopped since 2nd week), today I’m going to move the cider to secondary the Gravity is about 0.980 but the cider is still ...
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Still, un-bubbly cider after priming and left for 3 weeks at room temperature
This was the first time I primed my cider when bottling for carbonation. I exclusively wild ferment and press my own apples.
I added what I think was enough sugar (ca. 120 g for 25 L), and bottles ...
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Fruit flies in airlock led to contamination
I have some mead and cider going, and left for a month. When I returned there was a layer of white mold that ive heard referred to as air mold. I think it is because fruit flies got in the airlock and ...
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Cold crashing and priming for carbonation, does that work?
My wild fermented cider from freshly pressed apples has been on the carboy for almost one and a half months now.
Cider is cloudy and there's still some very, VERY occasional airlock activity (once or ...
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Is SG 1.005 OK for cider before first racking
The primary fermentation for cider is going for 9 days and SG wend down from 1.052 to 1.005.
Is it normal to have such a low value before first racking?
Should I add sugar to rise SG to 1.015 and ...
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Stuck fermentation on wild fermented cider?
I pressed about 40 L worth of apple juice 12 days ago. Sweet cider was put into a carboy and foamed heavily after 3 or 4 days for about a week with consitent airlock activity.
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Fermentation started right after air-locking, but stopped after a few hours
I have 30L of pressed apples. After getting the wild yeast started in one week, I put an air-lock on. This is how my carboy looked right after that operation:
I used organic raw apple cider vinegar ...
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Mold or fermentation not touching the edge of the carboy
I pressed 35L of apples and the juice was pourred into a clean carboy with a muslin cloth on top, aiming to make wild cider.
After 4 days of no action, this is the carboy at 16h in day 4:
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What is the best wine filtering system?
As a hobbyist who produces at least 5 gallons a week of wine, what filtering system do you recommend? I am also looking at transfer pumps as well.
I am getting older and have torn rotator cuffs and ...
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How do you feel about Swing Top wine bottles?
The question says it all. I am sure they are great for wines that will be consumed young, but what about for wines you are going to store for longer periods of time? Months, years?
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Dry Hopping Cider
I’ve taken to making Cider and quite enjoy it. I now finalize my fermentation (temp controlled) at 1.015Gs before bottling or kegging. In the case of bottling I still prime with sugar and then test ...
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Pasteurizing Apple Juice for Cider
I'm an experienced Beer home brewer, but I've never done a Cider and would like to try. I've bought natural pressed apple juice from a farm near me, it's free of preservatives, and thus is chilled to ...
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Combining Autumn Ale and Apfelwein
I’d like to brew a spiced Autumn Ale, but somehow also combine it with Apfelwein. Can this be done? Sort of, a bastardized version of Graf (Graaf / Graff) Recipe I have calls for adding “pure apple ...
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Diluting juice from old wrinkly apples for hard cider
I've juiced about 50kg of wonderful heritage apples that I stored over winter. They've dried out a lot. When scratting the pulp was almost dry to the touch, and the resulting juice was practically ...
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