The glory of TC!

[Rez_brp]

Hi all I'm new here... I was enticed by all this talk of Turbo Cider so me and my mate have tried making some... I have some piccies on my phone so I'll upload them when I get the chance.

We each used 4.5 litres os Sainsbugs basic apple juice with 150g granulated sugar and half a packet of Nottingham ale yeast. We found this recipe on these forums so whoever it belongs to ta very much

At the moment the result is sitting in 1ltr PET bottles and tomorrow night they go in the Fridage ready for the grand unveiling(drinking) on Friday. Its chuffing exciting... The cider is unbelievably clear and the bottles have hardened up which means carbonation has (hopefully!) occured.

We've experimented with carbonation and have some bottles with no additives, some with a teaspoon of granulated sugar in and some with 30ml apple juice added... again all ideas ungracefully stolen from these forums

If my readings are right I have a precarbonation ABV of 7.3%... I don't know if it still makes more booze during carbonation.

I can't wait to put the piccies up here because half way through fermentation the cider went a very very wierd hazy yellow colour, but all is good now.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi and if I've not put piccies up over the weekend then my cider has taken my eyesight!!!

[Vossy1]

I've not put piccies up over the weekend then my cider has taken my eyesight!!!

[Curious Brew]

I can't wait to put the piccies up here because half way through fermentation the cider went a very very wierd hazy yellow colour, but all is good now.

I love it when it does that, looks almost the colour of orange juice.

Welcome to the darkside.

[oxford brewer]

I can't wait to put the piccies up here because half way through fermentation the cider went a very very wierd hazy yellow colour, but all is good now.

I love it when it does that, looks almost the colour of orange juice.

Welcome to the darkside.

Even the devil didnt have it this easy

Hope you return safely from the TC induced Utopia and post those piccies Rez_brp

[Rez_brp]

I can't wait to put the piccies up here because half way through fermentation the cider went a very very wierd hazy yellow colour, but all is good now.

I love it when it does that, looks almost the colour of orange juice.

Welcome to the darkside.

Even the devil didnt have it this easy

Hope you return safely from the TC induced Utopia and post those piccies Rez_brp

I still can't get over how clear it is... I've brewed beer kits before with mixed results so me and my mate are thinking that we have found our niche!
As an added bonus I'm going round a work colleagues house in the next couple of days to pick up a shed load of apples so very soon we are hiring a press and having a go at "proper" cider

... and then I need to think about a ginger beer for Christmas... oh what am I becoming

[Rez_brp]

Humble beginnings...



This is a couple of hours in and the yeast seems to be working its mojo !



This one is well in to fermentation when the colour has gone very wierd! Also the bubbly gunk has gone right up the airlock but it was still working so I left it be...



And the last one is in the bottles just before I opened one...




I can't get over how bloody decent it tasted! Better that that bilge strongbow.

We worked it out to be 7.5% but it felt much much stronger...

Now the problem is that I only have 3 litres left....

[Curious Brew]

Just bottled batch #9 of my TC.

Wow, it just keeps getting better and better. This one was beautiful straight from the demijohn, reasonable weak at 5.9% but perfectly drinkable, nay excellently drinkable.

Just had a pint and bottled a further eight 500ml PET bottles, but seriously thinking about opening a bottle straight back up again.

4L Sainsbury's pure apple juice
1 sachet Young's Champagne yeast

Just pitched the same ingredients straight back onto the slurry so I should have more of the same in five to nine days time. I think leaving it a little longer definitely helps the smoothness and taste.

[drsmurto]

Been drinking the cider i made using apple and pear juice and fermented with S-04. Not bad at all. Got my hands on a pack of wyeast 4766 so will try that in a full 20L batch with straight apple juice.

Apples are just appearing on my trees now so i reckon i have another 3-4 months to get my method down before i make a real cider!

Cider making is such a simple but tasty brew.

[mattfuzzy]

C-B
my better brew was with youngs cider yeast... i discovered today that i actually have 2 packets left... dunno where one packet came from though
on another note my lemon stuffs bubbling slowly... TC UP NEXT!!!! gonna get the stuff later from the local ASDA!!!!

my best was just pure apple juice with cider yeast thats it, comes out around 5%, but for me ciders not about the percentage... i spent half my life drinking scrumpy as i live near 2 or 3 of the best cider farms in somerset

i still have 1L thats been maturing for over 6 months....

also asda sell 1lb pots of honey for like 50p each or something like that... mead anyone?
-matt