Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Bottling Cider

So, back in early September, I made two 3 gallon batches of cider. Pretty simple recipes. I'll post right after this posting.
However, Lesson of the Day:
If you're going to bottle anything, have bottles.
I guess since I started kegging in June, I've been recycling my bottles with Rumpke, instead of saving them. Yesterday, I was able to completely bottle one batch, but halfway thru the second, I ran out of bottles. After much swearing, I kegged the rest. Yay. One and a half gallons of primed cider. I'm wondering what the dextrose will do to the carbing....

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#1 Cider
(Coz it's my first, AND it kinda looks like wee wee.)
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3 gals Santa Cruz Organic Apple Juice
Half vial White Labs English Cider Yeast
3 tsp Fermax Yeast Nutrient
1.5 tsp LD Carlson Yeast Energizer

OG = 1.052
FG = 1.002
ABV = 6.375%

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Hard as Granate Cider
(See, it's Hard cider, and there's pomeGranate in it.)
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2.5 gal Wild Oats Organic Apple Juice
0.5 gal Lakewood Organic Pomegranate Juice (Has other juices in it)
3 tsp Fermax Yeast Nutrient
1.5 tsp LD Carlson Yeast Energizer

OG = 1.050
FG = 1.004
ABV = 6.125%

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