cider

dicky82

does anyone make their own cider? i had some homemade cider a few years back and it was delicious. but the person who had it was given it by a relative from england. is there much involved in making it?

The_M

Pretty simple really.

I made Peary, so pear cider. Just had to extract the juice from the pears. Then I pitched the cider with a white wine yeast in a fermentation bucket. After it was done fermenting, and I found it best to check the specific gravity on a cider, that batch of apple cider was a bit lively, I bottled it after adding some priming sugar.

best if it cellars for at LEAST 6 months! Not necessarily true for apple ciders, they mature quicker.

johngalway

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1353

Despite time passing faster in my head, my brew is only one week old yet.

Ayla

We've made beer, red wine & apple cider - it can honestly be as complicated or as simple as you'd like.

For us total beginners we bought kits from here so all we had to do was add water & ferment. We don't have picky tastes so the results were fine for us, but hopefully we will eventually learn enough to make the finer stuff from home grown fruit & hops, etc.

dicky82

thank's for all the replies, i'm going to give it a bash this year i think.