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maybe i should rename it to apple wine... very strong and tastes alot like a wine. no9t i gotta wait for it to carbonate properly hehehehe

Yeah sorry about that, move house and had no net for a week... all bottled up and almost ready for a tester... might give one a try tonight actually :P Put it into 15 grolsch bottles for storage till my birthday or even next xmas and the rest i just whacked into pet bottles cause i can guarentee ...

the sweetness isn't the issue... apart from the slight sourness it's just right for my taste

here is the original post for ingredients...

so does anyone know why it's cloudy???

Now a question for anyone thats done a similar cider... i started off (using ingredients mentioned in 'Toxic Cider' post) with a nice clear mix... now it's gone cloudy, is this just the process of fermentation or have i gotten something wrong? it's aslo developed an almost sour taste (which i dont ...

1.020 so far and still going!

Now a question for anyone thats done a similar cider... i started off (using above mentioned ingredients) with a nice clear mix... now it's gone cloudy, is this just the process of fermentation or have i gotten something wrong? it's aslo developed an almost sour taste ...

got a pearla today, although it wasn't really advice...

mixing your beer with lemonade increases the alcohol content...

oh and not to mention drinking Old (Tooheys i'm assuming) causes memory loss...

is it just me or doesn't ALL alcohol cause that effe...........what was i talking about?

nope. no kit, just juice... maybe i got a false SG reading to start off with, ahh well, just means i'll have to drink 2 bottles instead if its weaker LOL

So is there any way to check to alcohol content after it's done fermenting or am i going to have to just do it by taste?

cmon... how can you trust anyone that is well known for dancing like a pansy LOL

appologies for those who appreciate ballroom dancing

as i said in the other thread, from what i used to check the SG it's tasting freakin awesome

Being a huge strongbow fan, i'm pretty sure its the pear that makes it

Too late now :P but the SG test tastes nice LOL

Was getting worried, been over 12 hours and no bubbling in the fermenter, but when i checked the SG the lock showed that air is getting in somewhere else (chamber emptied when tap was on, but when i turned it back off the chamber refilled rather ...

Well i wanted something strong and just going off the original gravity (1.070 :shock: :shock: :shock: ) strong is what i'm gunna get!

Recipe

16L Juice Stop Juice (12L Apple, 4L Apple and Pear)
1kg Dextrose
500g Lactose
Nutrient
Wine Yeast (Couldn't get champaigne yeast :evil: )
2L Water to boil ...

could only get a white wine yeast, so i grabbed some nutrient just incase (can't hurt right?) will be putting it down tonight

16L Juice (12-apple, 4-apple and pear)
1kg Dex
500g Lactose (as you said yours was too dry)
and another 2L water to boil up the sugars

will post the OG and recipe in a new ...

well being fairly new to the game as well i've just recieved permission to 'requesition' the bath tub for a couple of weeks due to the fact that it's warming up around here too quickly...

going to fill the tub with cold water to try and keep the temp down a bit

bit late for this question, but better late than never

Tipsy, i'm assuming your recipe was just the straight apple juice, no kit?

you need nutrient in this too or does champagne yeast work without it?

I may do an experiment with adding splenda (sucralose) to the bottles at the rate of 1 tablet per 375ml and see how that goes. may be 1/2 the bottles with sweetner the others i'll leave a lone.

Sounds like a brilliant idea, please keep us informed on how this goes...

would be nice to do a ...

I did find a brand that said it had no preservative in it and am pretty sure it didn't have food acid in it either... it was the el-cheapo juice stop that you get from clints or the warehouse... aparently the preservative they put in it breaks down into it's basic components within a couple hours of ...

Why not let the kids drink the alcoholic one...

...sure it's highly illegal and they would be absolute a-holes for 15-30min till they passed out, but once they do you have the rest of the day to relax in peace and quiet. With an added bonus of them being very suseptable payback from the years of ...

The General Managers of Cascade Brewery (Tasmania), Tooheys (New South Wales), XXXX (Queensland), CUB (Victoria) and Coopers (South Australia) were at a national beer conference.

They decide to all go to lunch together and the waitress asks what they want to drink.

The General Manager of Tooheys ...

So i want to make a cider using extra apple juice but all the juices i'm lookin at have food acid(330) and vitamin c(300). now i don't see how the vitamin c could cause a problem but from what i've read food acid(330) is citric acid which buggers fermentation. can anyone give me a specific brand of ...

thanks for all the replies.

If it tastes dodgy it's all good... i'm not the one drinking it it's for the in-laws. But i racked it last night and will leave it for a week or so until bottling... but at least my primary is now free to get a cider under way for me