Hi,
I've done a couple of tc's both of which have been carbonated, has anyone got a decent recipe for a tc that comes out similar to Cornish scrumpy?? Is it just cloudy apple juice, tannin and cider yeast?? That sounds too easy??
Thanks in advance!!
Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
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Geezah
Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Most Scrumpy/Farmhouse ciders rely upon the natural yeasts on the pressed apples to do the fermentation.
The yeast will impart a definative flavour to the finished cider, so if your using commercial apple juice you would need to find a suitable yeast strain to replicate that.
You could try harvesting the sediment from the bottom of a 2l jug of Westerns Scrumpy (avail in Morrisons) and creating a culture to pitch.
The yeast will impart a definative flavour to the finished cider, so if your using commercial apple juice you would need to find a suitable yeast strain to replicate that.
You could try harvesting the sediment from the bottom of a 2l jug of Westerns Scrumpy (avail in Morrisons) and creating a culture to pitch.
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oldbloke
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Yeast cultured from bottle of Old Rosie, add malic acid to the recipe, don't drink until secondary malolactic fermentation has worked (months, sometimes)
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kirky80
Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Thank you for your quick advice, I think I had better do some reading, I wouldn't have a clue how to harvest yeast etc... Can't be that hard, can it????
Cheers!!
Cheers!!
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Check out Oldblokes Post `How I make Turbo cider with Pics`
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oldbloke
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
yebbut I don't get the west country style, I get the clean style, making it that way.
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
chuck some straw in it for a bit. a dead rat. whatever you got to hand..
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Safbrew T-58 yeast.
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
It can't be Thatcher's, it's too expensive for them to use good quality British rat. Instead they import Sikkim rats from China.mrbisback wrote:That a Thatcher brew?
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Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Over on The Other Forum there's a HowTo on yeast harvesting, specifically for the Old Rosie yeast.kirky80 wrote:Thank you for your quick advice, I think I had better do some reading, I wouldn't have a clue how to harvest yeast etc... Can't be that hard, can it????
Cheers!!
Or, you can buy lactibacillus cultures
Personally I had enough scrumpy growing up in zumerzet, I prefer a clean style these days
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Shaun21
Re: Best recipe for a cornish style scrumpy
Geezah wrote:mrbisback wrote:Needs more rat
Black Rat is superb stuff! My mum used to work for the brewery doing all their payrol and as a perk of the job we used to get crates of it at stupidly low prices.
Oh and come to think of it.. I'm pretty sure a guy I used to go to school with works there now. Hmm, maybe I should get back in contact with him.