Seeking Cider Recipe

[auntsally]

Thanks for the tip, heres my problem

I have 8kg of ripe apples that will go to waste if i cant find a cider recipe soon. I have looked every where but most use shop bought juice and use a lot of chemicals.
Heres hoping.

[Squirrel]

If you don't come across a cider recipe why don't you use them to make wine? Much better than wasting them!

[auntsally]

cider

Now i need a recipe for wine, it just gets worse...

[Squirrel]

Ah now that is easy! Pop down to your local library and get CJJ Berry's book on winemaking! You can't go wrong and it will stand you in good stead for all those surplus fruit and veg! In fact could be worth your while buying it!

[yoanbob]

Aunt sally, try this one;
for 5 gallons of juice, (chop and press first of course)
3 teaspoons of brewing yeast
1 kg granulated sugar
put your juice in a clean bucket and place in bath covered in a muslin, weighted down on corners to stop vinegar flies, leave 2 days till first natural fermentation is compleate then place in a clean bucket thro a sieve or muslin.
add yeast
disolve sugar in a pan with 1-2 pints of boiling water water and add to bucket.cover with lid and keep warm for 10 days-2 weeks when liquid is clear and there s brown stuff on the top and its stopped bubbling take to a cool place for 24 hrs.
rack off into bottles add a pinch of sugar to each bottle
leave for a few weeks.
enjoy

[nick the grief]

Zider rezipeee

Hi Auntsally, Welcome to the Vine.

What you need is the booklet by Jo Deal called MAKING CIDER !! (amateur winemaking publications) ISBN 0 900841 45 1

Mines ed 3 1981

It covers everything
Early history, types of Apples, what you need, Techniques,possible faults, Recipes for Cider, Cooking with Cider & Favourite Apple recipes.

Cider Recipe

18lbs (8Kgs) Sweet Windfalls
1 level tsp citric acid
Initial specific Gravity(sp) of Juice 1055

Exrtract juice & strain into a gallon jar fitte with an airlock. Keep in a warm kitchen to start fermentaion slowly at first but should be rapid after a week.

If it has a heavy deposti in the bottom rack into a clean jar & refit air lock & leave for 2 weeks.

Rack again & leave for 5 weeks & check the SP (should be around 1035) add the citric acid rack again & move somewhere cool & leave for a month or two the SP should now be around 1005 ish. Taste it & if it tastes OK either drik straight away having booked a coupleof weeks off work first or transfer to cider bottles & add a spoon of sugar to each one & drink more moderatly

[auntsally]

Thankyou all so much, i am ready to try to make my cider. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks again

[yoanbob]

sounds like a good one nick, might try yours this year

[auntsally]

Hi all
Started off the cider last night using nicks recipe, keep you posted...
neighbour has said he will wait for the explosion...

sal

[Brewer-again]

explosion not required

As long as you use an air lock ( water trap ) you cannot experience a blow up. So rack the cider and enjoy it when it has finished and cleared. Look at other posts for sparkling cider.

[Brewer-again]

cider ?

Just wondered how it had brewed ?