Brew No.51 Rate: 0/10 ABV: 6% Guide attenuation: 95-100% My attenuation: 100% Achieved: OG: 1045 FG: 1000 ABV: 6% Notes: – Didnt back sweeten. 5 Tbs of Xylitol per 5L on bottling. – Forgot to wait 24 hours before adding yeast. – 3 lots of yeast. – Month in primary bucket. 2 months secondary 2 demijohns – Didn't see any bubbles or krausen. So pitched Mangrove Jacks Cider yeast a few days later as well. Still no bubbles. Assumed no oxygen, so shook cider in demijohns then poured back ...
Add 4 gallons apple juice and adjunct sugars; ferment. Potassium sorbate once primary is complete. Once stable, rack to secondary and add ¹ gallon of apple juice to back sweeten. Force Carb.
Brew No.31 Rate: 6/10 ABV: 7.2% Guide attenuation: 95-100% My attenuation: 100% Achieved: OG: 1055 FG: 1000 ABV: 7.2% Notes: Very sour but added touch of honey on drinking and was lovely. – Slightly under carbonated. Drunk after 2 years. – 6Lt Tesco concentrated apple juice. No preservatives. – 1 Darjeeling tea bag adds tannin, which helps flavour. Juice of a lime. – TO BACK SWEETEN. ADD 5 TBS OF Xylitol PER GALLON ON BOTTLING. PROBABLY ADD TO SUGSR ON BOTTING? Do again: Yeah. ...
First kit cider made on 30th April 2020 under Lockdown!!
Had four 5-gallons buckets of homegrown apples in the root cellar that needed to be used or lost around Jan 1. Decided to make this cider.