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Cider in pressure barrel

Post by injac » Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:09 am

Hi All

Supplying some beer for my brother in laws wedding where I'll be serving from King kegs. The bride has also requested a cider.

Has anyone any experience of the pitfalls of serving cider from a budget pressure barrel with co2 cap? Obviously ciders tend to be fizzier than Ales - can a standard PB cope with this?

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Re: Cider in pressure barrel

Post by orlando » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:12 am

injac wrote:Hi All

Supplying some beer for my brother in laws wedding where I'll be serving from King kegs. The bride has also requested a cider.

Has anyone any experience of the pitfalls of serving cider from a budget pressure barrel with co2 cap? Obviously ciders tend to be fizzier than Ales - can a standard PB cope with this?

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Re: Cider in pressure barrel

Post by Kev888 » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:16 pm

I'm not really a cider man, but FWIW the cider section at many beer festivals is full of pressure barrels (and even bag-in-boxes, as cider isn't necessarily highly carbonated).

I guess it partly depends on what she's expecting; Diamond White could present a special kind of challenge :)
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Re: Cider in pressure barrel

Post by Pinto » Fri Apr 15, 2016 9:42 pm

It'll struggle - Im inclined to say no.

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Re: Cider in pressure barrel

Post by steambrew » Sat Apr 16, 2016 3:56 pm

As someone who worked in the cider industry for many years we used to fill a 5 gl budget barrel all the time we suggested if the client wanted to add co2 to just add a small amount to add a few bubbles to the pint but not over pressure as this would have a marked taste on the cider as all ours was meant to be still, ours was made with 100 percent Apples , I have no knowledge of turbo cider but would go for it

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Re: Cider in pressure barrel

Post by Pinto » Sun Apr 17, 2016 9:19 am

Turbo cider is analagous to what most domestic consumers would call "cider" - highly carbonated white cider (with fruit flavours, etc to suit), rather than a traditional scrumpy type cider - PBs just arent up to the pressures that such levels of carbonation would exert on them.
Primary 1: Nonthing
Primary 2 : Nothing
Primary 3 : None
Secondary 1 : Empty
Secondary 1 : None
DJ(1) : Nowt
DJ(2) : N'otin....
In the Keg : Nada
Conditioning : Nowt
In the bottle : Cinnamonator TC, Apple Boost Cider, Apple & Strawberry Cider
Planning : AG #5 - Galaxy Pale (re-brew) / #6 - Alco-Brau (Special Brew Clone) / #7 Something belgian...
Projects : Mini-brew (12l brew length kit) nearly ready :D

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Re: Cider in pressure barrel

Post by injac » Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:13 pm

I think I'm gonna stick to bottles for the cider - in terms of carbonation I'm thinking Bulmers or Aspalls kind of level. Also I'm expecting less cider drinkers than Ale suppers so any leftover can be kept longer.

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