Boiling apple juice for turbo cider?

[bigdave]

Rather than just adding 2 kg of sugar to 25l apple juice, is it at all feasible to boil it for 30-45 min to concentrate the sugars in the juice then chill and pitch the yeast? Or is that just a waste of time?

[mozza]

Would be a cloudy cider but should work

[oldbloke]

Rather than boil AJ, which may well affect flavour, consider switching to AJ concentrate (eg Suma from hippyfood shops)
5l of that is equivalent to about 35l of AJ - with sugar content to match, so you wouldn't need to add any sugar. And you get more apple in the brew too.
OK it costs a little bit more but I reckon it's worth it.

[WalesAles]

[quote="bigdave"]Rather than just adding 2 kg of sugar to 25l apple juice, is it at all feasible to boil it for 30-45 min to concentrate the sugars in the juice then chill and pitch the yeast? Or is that just a waste of time?[/quot

Hello bd,
Why do you put in 2Kg sugar? doesn`t this come out very strong (or is that what you wanted)?
I only use 150 - 200gr sugar to get 5.7 - 6.5% in 15Lts.
No disrespect, just asking!
WA

[bigdave]

I like to make my TC to about 9-10%.

*edit*
I don't put 2kg in, that was just the first number that came to me.