Quick n00b question here,
About to start my Sherwoods Cider kit, since it seems that most people on the board seem to prefer their own yeast choice as opposed to the yeast that comes with the kit, will using an ale yeast (Nottingham Danstar) have a negative effect with the kits? The kits comes with a Cider yeast?
robably a no brainer but my limited experience so far with kit yeast was less than spectacular...or should I buy a good quality cider yeast?
Cider / Ale yeast
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BarryNL
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Petrovitch
You can quite happily use an ale yeast, i've made several batches of turbo cider with generic SB-12 ale yeast and I think they've tasted better than the batches made with actual 'cider yeast', which tends to produce a very dry crisp cider but lacking in flavour. You can also use champagne or general/white wine yeast, i've tried several batches with EC-1118 (Gervin champagne) and they fermented out to dryness and cleared very quickly.
Ahh then there is also the White Labs WLP775 English Cider Yeast, about which many people have raved, haven't tried it myself yet.
Depends what kind of cider you want to make really, tho most of the available 'kits' seem to make a fairly similar product - i.e. dry, light, crisp, sparkling (you can drink em still but tastes fairly bland, needs a little CO2 to lift the flavour IMHO).
However the Sherwoods Orchard Cider looks very bl**dy spangly (at ~£17!) sooo I may be totally wrong
Ahh then there is also the White Labs WLP775 English Cider Yeast, about which many people have raved, haven't tried it myself yet.
Depends what kind of cider you want to make really, tho most of the available 'kits' seem to make a fairly similar product - i.e. dry, light, crisp, sparkling (you can drink em still but tastes fairly bland, needs a little CO2 to lift the flavour IMHO).
However the Sherwoods Orchard Cider looks very bl**dy spangly (at ~£17!) sooo I may be totally wrong