Turbo Cider
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Ranting Lad
Turbo Cider
I have made plenty of all grain beers and now SWMBO wants me to make some cider for her. How would I go about making 25 litres of the stuff. Thanks in advance.
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jim the fish
Re: Turbo Cider
this is originally from dreadskin i lay no clame to it and he seems to be the tc gurue on here
"HI ALL,
Although technically new to this forum (ive been reading it at work taking notes etc for the past 6 mothes) i thought i should give my 10p worth on this topic. i love cider and have been experimenting since xmas to come up with the best recipie. this is it. ive since made it three times with perfect strong cloudy scrumpy
my recipe for 20ltrs TC:
20 lts of lydle apple juice
3 pounds lydle honey
8 bramley apples (skinned), blended
1 cup of strong tea made with 3/4 bags
youngs cider yeast
stick 18ltr of juice in the fermenter, blend apples, stick them in. use some apple juice to melt honey, mix with the tea, stick it in.
when the apples 'fall out' of the juice, ie go to the bottom, and the larger bits float to the top, rack off. top up with more juice. ferment to dryness.
if you want it clear, add bentonite, (or just grow up and get a set of b*llox).
bottle it, if you want it with sparkle ad teaspoon or a slosh of juice.#
drinking: get yer mates round and watch them fall over!
i didnt really like the turbo ciders much. they were drinkable, but lacked depth or character or some other pretentious term... by adding the brambleys it gives the cider loads of body and balls. basically its sort of what the kentish cider makers do, and is a cheap method to recreate this.
ends up about 8%"
as i said not mine i tryed this on a small scale it was great
"HI ALL,
Although technically new to this forum (ive been reading it at work taking notes etc for the past 6 mothes) i thought i should give my 10p worth on this topic. i love cider and have been experimenting since xmas to come up with the best recipie. this is it. ive since made it three times with perfect strong cloudy scrumpy
my recipe for 20ltrs TC:
20 lts of lydle apple juice
3 pounds lydle honey
8 bramley apples (skinned), blended
1 cup of strong tea made with 3/4 bags
youngs cider yeast
stick 18ltr of juice in the fermenter, blend apples, stick them in. use some apple juice to melt honey, mix with the tea, stick it in.
when the apples 'fall out' of the juice, ie go to the bottom, and the larger bits float to the top, rack off. top up with more juice. ferment to dryness.
if you want it clear, add bentonite, (or just grow up and get a set of b*llox).
bottle it, if you want it with sparkle ad teaspoon or a slosh of juice.#
drinking: get yer mates round and watch them fall over!
i didnt really like the turbo ciders much. they were drinkable, but lacked depth or character or some other pretentious term... by adding the brambleys it gives the cider loads of body and balls. basically its sort of what the kentish cider makers do, and is a cheap method to recreate this.
ends up about 8%"
as i said not mine i tryed this on a small scale it was great
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monkeyb0y
Re: Turbo Cider
As mentioned to me by curious brew, sainsburys are doing buy 1 get 2 free on princes Apple juice from con....I personally like the look of this recipe and gonna adapt it for this juice and handpicked apples as there's plenty around..the son works for netto so honey will come from there...only snag, I'm still fermenting 5 gal from last week.... 
Rich
Rich
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ghostofmonkeypaws
Re: Turbo Cider
alright turbo ciderers.
never made cider before and being the appley time of year it is, was gonna give the beer and wine a break and see what i could do. after considering getting apples and pulverising them with rude stares and coarse language (as i have no press), i decided to be much more lazy and just some juicy juice from a supermarche. my plan is along the lines of the recipe that preceeds...
5 litres of apple juice (probably lidl's or some such)
some lovely honey
some tea (mother dearest drinks some weird and wonderful flavours of tea which might be fun to try)
some yeast
now, if all that seems in order, here are a couple of questions.
no sugar? is there enough sugar int juice?
some apples? scrambled in at the beginning, added in a secondary fermentation?
also, while im here, while do they call pear cider, well... pear cider? isnt it a perry?
never made cider before and being the appley time of year it is, was gonna give the beer and wine a break and see what i could do. after considering getting apples and pulverising them with rude stares and coarse language (as i have no press), i decided to be much more lazy and just some juicy juice from a supermarche. my plan is along the lines of the recipe that preceeds...
5 litres of apple juice (probably lidl's or some such)
some lovely honey
some tea (mother dearest drinks some weird and wonderful flavours of tea which might be fun to try)
some yeast
now, if all that seems in order, here are a couple of questions.
no sugar? is there enough sugar int juice?
some apples? scrambled in at the beginning, added in a secondary fermentation?
also, while im here, while do they call pear cider, well... pear cider? isnt it a perry?
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jim the fish
Re: Turbo Cider
i always add a bit of brewing sugar aswell as honey about half a pound to 5 ltrs and a makes it a bit stronger and a greated bramley in there for good measure always turned out well
just made a 10 ltr batch
just made a 10 ltr batch
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Spud395
Re: Turbo Cider
Well Pear cider is pear flavoured cide rwhere as perry is made from pure pear juiceghostofmonkeypaws wrote:
also, while im here, while do they call pear cider, isnt it a perry?
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ghostofmonkeypaws
Re: Turbo Cider
aye, i know that! have you seen the the magners 100% pear juice PEAR CIDER? ive seen others too. thats what im on about. sheesh!Spud395 wrote:Well Pear cider is pear flavoured cide rwhere as perry is made from pure pear juiceghostofmonkeypaws wrote:
also, while im here, while do they call pear cider, isnt it a perry?
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DREADSKIN1
Re: Turbo Cider
its only perry if its made from juice from perry pears. its pear cider if its made with the juice from desert pears
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ghostofmonkeypaws
Re: Turbo Cider
thank you! an intelligent answer rather than being condescended to
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pauliedangerously
Re: Turbo Cider
Howdy, first time poster here having been a lurker for a while...
I have been content making 5 litre batches of my turbo cider using just 1 x sachet of wine yeast. I am now upping the ante, as it were, and wondered if there is a formula for the amount of yeast I should be using per batch? Is it simply a case of doubling the amount so 10 litres = 2 sachets?
I am relatively new to this and the FAQ and basics sections seem not to cover it.
I'm hoping to become a active member on this forum so any help/advice gratefully accepted!
I have been content making 5 litre batches of my turbo cider using just 1 x sachet of wine yeast. I am now upping the ante, as it were, and wondered if there is a formula for the amount of yeast I should be using per batch? Is it simply a case of doubling the amount so 10 litres = 2 sachets?
I am relatively new to this and the FAQ and basics sections seem not to cover it.
I'm hoping to become a active member on this forum so any help/advice gratefully accepted!
Re: Turbo Cider
I was doing a 20l batch, and one sachet of cider yeast was fine. It all went wrong the other night though.
I had just seen Iron Maiden in Manchester. It was a lovely night. I got back to Chester, and my Mum came to me with a sad look on her face
"AceMcAce, I think you should go to the garage. Something has happened"
I opened the garage door to see 20L of lovely lovely TC all over the floor. The builders had left a plank of wood leant against the wall, which fell down and knocked the tap on my FV causing it to skip the thread and drain out all over the floor.
Anybody know how to stop my garage smelling like a brewery? I'd hose it out, but there are 2 chest freezers and a washing machine in there that I'd rather not kill.
I had just seen Iron Maiden in Manchester. It was a lovely night. I got back to Chester, and my Mum came to me with a sad look on her face
"AceMcAce, I think you should go to the garage. Something has happened"
I opened the garage door to see 20L of lovely lovely TC all over the floor. The builders had left a plank of wood leant against the wall, which fell down and knocked the tap on my FV causing it to skip the thread and drain out all over the floor.
Anybody know how to stop my garage smelling like a brewery? I'd hose it out, but there are 2 chest freezers and a washing machine in there that I'd rather not kill.