Thoughts on getting this to work with pear nectar? Don't really want to do it with honey. Any substitute you'd recommend?
Update: pasteurization only cost me 1 bottle, so in a three gallon batch, I ended up with 29 bottles.
Good flavor, not too sweet. On par with a Woodchuck or similar, but not as cloying. I'm happy with it, and my wife, who is the real cider drinker enjoys it. She even said, "I can't believe you just made this."
Kudos, KWB. Thanks!
Thinking of doing another batch. Summer berries maybe? Thoughts?
Never tried anything like that with a cider. Let me know how it turns out!
OK, so, in an attempt to reach my goal of a super-peachy apple cider, this just happened:
Eight cans, along with about 200g of orange blossom honey, added to just two gallons of 8% ABV cider. Due to the volume of the "nectar" I ended up dropping my ABV down around the neighborhood of 5.5% but such is life. It tasted pretty good from the bottling wand, I'll report back when it's carbed, pasteurized, and cold!
OK, so, in an attempt to reach my goal of a super-peachy apple cider, this just happened:
Eight cans, along with about 200g of orange blossom honey, added to just two gallons of 8% ABV cider. Due to the volume of the "nectar" I ended up dropping my ABV down around the neighborhood of 5.5% but such is life. It tasted pretty good from the bottling wand, I'll report back when it's carbed, pasteurized, and cold!
This is my first hard cider
6 gal tree top from costco
3/4 gal water to get to the top of my 6.5 gal carboy
OG 1.052 first time taking a hydro reading.
pectic enzyme added
Notty pitched
Was thinking about adding a cinnamon stick or two, is this a good time to do this in the primary?
I'll let sit in primary 30 days
then back sweeten with local honey 1lb
and 1 can frozen AJ.
bottle and pasteurize when carbonated to my liking.
I'm not to too worried about the 2 cinnamon sticks they were pretty old small ones, and swmbo did not really taste cinnamon last night, just stated that it tasted like white wine.
I can drop the temp pretty low, 5.0 Freezer is working as my fermentor at this time.
I'm cold crashing to 38F, now I wish I had crashed at 1.012, the taste was really great nice tart apple not to sweet at all.
Will back sweeten with 1lb honey and 1 can frozen AJ.
This sounds lovely. Any other Peach concentrate you have used or can recommend? Very heard to find in canada
This is an incredibly easy, tasty, and cheap cider to make. Its become a big hit with everyone that's tried it at beer tasting events.
You get however many gallons of Publix brand Apple Cider you want to make, though this recipe is for 6 gallons. Add it to a sanitized carboy. I like to put 3 gallons in the freezer, one gallon in the fridge, and leave 2 gallons out. This way its already cold and I dont have to chill it before pitching. Once your close to 65f pitch your Notty and close it up. Thats it for a little over 2 weeks. Once its fermented and the yeast has settled out rack over to your bottling bucket. At this point you have a base for making almost any cider you can imagine. From experimenting I've found adding honey at bottling time really brings out the apple flavor. Ive also done variations using tart cherry juice, pear nectar, black cherry juice, guava nectar, and am currently working on a ginger version.
Once in the bottling bucket/keg, back sweeten with 1# of Orange Blossom honey and 1 bottle of Looza Organic Peach Nectar(34ozs). I heat the honey up in the microwave so its easier to get out of the bottle and mix into solution. This is just my preference of nectar to use but really you can just add to taste.
Once everything has been mixed in its ready to bottle up. At this point I open one up every other day to see when its carbed to where I like it. Usually it only takes 3-4 days. From there pasteurize all the bottles using the stove top method. Dont let the bottles get too carbed otherwise the pasteurizing process can be extremely dangerous. And you cant not pasteurize this recipe unless your kegging because all the sugar that was added at bottling will create bottle bombs. Now your ready to chill it and enjoy
Brand new... when you say pitch your Notty, does that mean one packet of Nottingham yeast? Is one packet the amount required for 6 gallons?
Thanks
Just so you know, Juicy Juice makes a peach apple that you can blend to plain apple for the balance you want.
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