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Mike's Hard Cider Recipe |
I've been making a Hard Cider for parties for a few years now, and
it's always a hit with the non-beer drinkers aka girlfriends & wives
of my friends who come over. It's usually on the sweeter side due to the back-sweetening,
but you can control that based on how much concentrate you add.
If you want something a little more dry, go with one can only.
I typically use two cans of concentrate because I'm not looking to
win any BJCP competitions, and that's the way most of the non-beer
drinkers like it. NOTE: If you do not have the ability
to keg your cider, you will not be able to make a sweet & carbonated
version. You can either have a dry & carbonated bottled cider,
or a still (no carbonation) sweet cider. The potassium sorbate
prevents yeast growth, which is needed when bottle-conditioning the
cider.
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Ingredients
� 5 Gallons Apple Cider (Cub Foods
Brand, Indian Summer - cheap stuff)
� make
sure it doesn't have any potassium sorbate
� 2 lbs Light or Dark Brown Sugar
� 2 cans of Apple Juice Concentrate
(to keg)
� Dry Ale Yeast (I've used US-05, S04,
Nottingham - it doesn't really matter)
Mix & Ferment
� Sanitize fermenter of your choice
� Add Brown Sugar to the fermenter
� Pour Apple Cider over the sugar
which will mix it up and aerate
� Add Yeast
� Ferment until done (usually goes to
1.000 or a little higher)
� Sanitize secondary fermenter
� Add 2.5 tsp of Potassium Sorbate to
prevent further yeast growth
� Rack cider on top of Potassium
Sorbate and any other flavorings you wish to add (fruit, spices, etc.)
� Let it sit for a week or two
Kegging
� Sanitize a keg
� If you got frozen concentrate, heat
that in a pot on the stove until it's slightly warm and pour it in the bottom of
the keg
� If you got non-frozen concentrate,
just pour it into the keg
� Rack the cider on top of the
concentrate
� Hit the keg with 30psi to seal the
lid and vent headspace
I've had this cider on tap as short as 4 weeks, but I usually wait about 6.
That's from start to finish, not aging in the keg. You can play around with
different concentrates to get the level of sweetness that you want. Be careful
with this stuff around guests, especially if they've already been drinking. It
typically weighs in at around 7.5% ABV, so it can sneak up on them pretty
quickly. |
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