This recipe I got from a buddy who loves it and highly recommended it. I can't take credit for it. If you have a kegerator, this is the easy and delicious recipe for you. This could also be bottled and pasteurized for carbed sweetness. Taste is crisp apple with a touch of cranberry sweetness, but far from overwhelming cranberry flavor. Just right. Perfect on a hot day.
Ingredients:
-5 gallons of Motts applejuice
-1 packet of Nottingham Ale yeast
-1 to 2 pounds of white sugar
-1 gallon of Ocean Spray Cranberry juice
-Campden tablets and k sorbate
While re-dydrating your yeast, mix your apple juice and sugar in the primary, dissolving all the sugar. Pitch your yeast. Rig up blow off tube and let it ferment dry. I replaced the blow off tube with an airlock 2 weeks in. I didn't touch it for 5 weeks total. By then it had finished and was about perfectly clear. Racked a gallon of the cider into a gallon carboy and the rest went into the keg, onto proper amount of metabisulfite and sorbate to stabilize. Hooked it up to CO2 and purged the oxygen out of the headspace. Waited a day and then added my cranberry juice bringing the total volume in my keg up to 5 gal. Hooked it back up to CO2, purged again, then shook the hell out of the keg for a min.
The result is an absolutely delicious carbed cider that's not too sweet and rediculously good. AND... Was one of the easiest brews i've done, aside from apfelwein.
Bonus:
You now have a gallon carboy of still/dry cider to drink or experiment with. As homebrewers, we all like to experiment for our next batches.
Ingredients:
-5 gallons of Motts applejuice
-1 packet of Nottingham Ale yeast
-1 to 2 pounds of white sugar
-1 gallon of Ocean Spray Cranberry juice
-Campden tablets and k sorbate
While re-dydrating your yeast, mix your apple juice and sugar in the primary, dissolving all the sugar. Pitch your yeast. Rig up blow off tube and let it ferment dry. I replaced the blow off tube with an airlock 2 weeks in. I didn't touch it for 5 weeks total. By then it had finished and was about perfectly clear. Racked a gallon of the cider into a gallon carboy and the rest went into the keg, onto proper amount of metabisulfite and sorbate to stabilize. Hooked it up to CO2 and purged the oxygen out of the headspace. Waited a day and then added my cranberry juice bringing the total volume in my keg up to 5 gal. Hooked it back up to CO2, purged again, then shook the hell out of the keg for a min.
The result is an absolutely delicious carbed cider that's not too sweet and rediculously good. AND... Was one of the easiest brews i've done, aside from apfelwein.
Bonus:
You now have a gallon carboy of still/dry cider to drink or experiment with. As homebrewers, we all like to experiment for our next batches.