Friday, 10 July 2009

Turbo Cider

4.5 princes apple juice cartons (costco (12 for 4.99))
Caster sugar to 1.090 OG
Young's cider yeast (£1)
1/2 teaspoon of yeast nutrient

Thu Jul 9 2009 - 1.090 OG
Sat Jul 11 2009 - 1.030 SG (doesn't taste awful)
Sun 12 Jul 2009 - 1.002 FG ( I think this stopped sometime on Saturday, I noticed a definite lack of gas later on and hardly any all Sunday)

Surprised at how quick it finished. I really wanted to stop this at 1.016.
It tasted dry (girly says sweet as well?!) but not much body.
Have split into 4 1lt bottles, 1 being from the top, 4 being from the bottom:

1 1tsp caster suagr
2 tiny bit of apple juice
3 glug of apple juice + 1/2 tsp sugar
4 big glug of apple juice

Tue 14 Jul 2009 - Drank the dregs of a surplus untouched 5th bottle. Tasted sweet and wasn't too bad. If this was sweet, then I hope the others mellow ;)

Sun 19 Jul 2009 - Had bottle 1. Wasn't bad, had more fizz than I thought. Didn't explode when I took it from the fridge.

Wed 22 Jul 2009 - Had bottle 4. Tasted darker. Not surprising as it was the end of the dj. Still nice and fizzy, and strong!

Fri24 Jul 2009 - all gone! 1 and 2 seemed to be the better tasting, but 3 the most fizzy.

Will make again but with a different apple juice.

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