turbo cider concerntrate or no concerntrate?

[Shn00dleS]

hey, came across this link http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hotpot/59 ... cider.html

explaining how easy it is to make turbo cider, i assume you need to use the expencive pure stuff and not the concerntrate? i would have asked them but the thread was from 2005!

[Totem]

You can use the cheapy stuff, my last TC was co-op cheapy apple juice

[Damfoose]

Have a check through the other brews section of the forum their are loads of tips and threads about TC ( turbo cider ) in their.

Im going to have a go at it myself this weekend just to see how good it is.

[ashbyp]

The good thing about TC is it gives you a good view of how fermentation works.

And it will get you plastered

[Shn00dleS]

ok

thanks for replies

[flytact]

I've never been swayed to try TC, tempting as it may be, but when I've done regular cider a can of frozen concentrate at bottling/kegging was always included.

[maxashton]

I use supermarket own brand value type stuff. You can use cloudy or clear from concentrate.

You can actually get some really tasty results.

[micmacmoc]

I went out and bought some apple juice last night to give the recipe below a try. At Tesco right now theres a good quality apple juice for the same price as tesco value, it works out at 50p a litre:


8 litre apple juice
3 1/2kg sugar (I'm told tate and lyle is the one as its cane not beet)
3 tsp yeast
water up to 40 pints.
I'm sticking the lot in a fermenter to see what occurs.
Will keep you informed, hope this helps

micmacmoc
megadizzie
cornwall

[Russ]

That should be interesting!

All my TC's have been 100% juice, I've liked em- but I have had a complaint that they are too appley I can't help thinking your juice to water ratio will be too high but:

I have made a great dry white wine:

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/show ... php?t=1562

Thats just one litre of apple juice and one of grape juice, sugar, citric acid and topped up with water- It's fantastic! so maybe juice + sugar and water will make something reasonable- let us know.

Cheers!

[Shn00dleS]

while i was at the supermarket i saw (apple, mango and lime juice), i thought of doing an experiment. i read later the mango contained within was pulp at 12% with the apple and lime juice the rest.

looking now at the demijon after 2.5 hours it is starting to go lumpy! i fear this was a bad idea but time will tell. do you think that beer finings might be a solution to this?

[Russ]

Doubt it I think you need pectolase to break down the pulp.
Check out the wines at home link I posted above sure you'll find some info on it.

Cheers

[Shn00dleS]

both my brews have alot of sediment, is it ok to use beer finings on them or is better to strain through linen, considering that i have to pour out the brew from the top of demigon, maybee a syphon from top??

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