Summer Fruits TC

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arthur

Summer Fruits TC

Post by arthur » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:48 pm

Just bottled my two batches of turbo cider, not sure if this is the best forum for this, please tell me off If needs be. Im so far really happy with the cider and hope it gets better once conditioned, using a champagne yeast it should be quite tingly as JD says.

Assuming my calculations are correct and rounding to the nearest .1 percent

The "weaker" cider started with an OG of 1.046 and the FG is 1.001 thats 6.1%ABV and taste like a medium sweet cider.
The stronger cider started with an OG of 1.078 and the FG is 0.996 thats 11.1%ABV, surely that an apple wine not cider :shock: this was quite dry.

Both batches have produced 4lts each and I primed both with 16g of white sugar, simply divided 80g by 5 as per the 40pint kits. I also put 5 canderel tablets into the 4lts of stronger cider to sweeten it, this is experimental, tried trolling through the topics without much luck.

I lost a bit of colour, in the DJ both appeared quite red but I think the lees being quite pink were adding to the colour.

Heres a picture, the swing tops are presents for friends and i thought they were better than the green PET bottles.

Cheers Adam

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