Drinking cider before its finished

[Mattyde05]

Hi guys . Can you drink turbo cider before its finished fermenting ? Say 5 days

 

[JonnyD]

Here is a snippet that the moderator Moley posted on his how to make WOW guide:

Eventually, the bubbling will slow right down and stop, and here’s where you have to start to learn one of the hardest, but one of the most important lessons in winemaking - patience. Don’t try to rush it, leave it for another week. Here comes the science:

Yeast turns sugar into alcohol plus carbon dioxide, but in between it makes other chemicals called aldehydes. If you try to rush it you will get an alcoholic drink which will get you plastered but might upset your guts and leave you with a headache. Give it a bit more time and the yeasties will finish clearing away those aldehydes and you should end up with a wine which you can be proud to share with your family and friends.


I know it's cider you're making but it's the same principle
Hope this helps

 

[oldbloke]

Hi guys . Can you drink turbo cider before its finished fermenting ? Say 5 days

Well, you could, but it won't have finished fermenting so will be sweet, and it won't have finished fermenting so the flavour will be poor or even bad, and it won't have finished fermenting so there'll be lots of yeast in it to make you fart copiously all the next day.
"Turbo" is for the ease and speed of throwing it all together, not for the time before you can drink it

 

[Mattyde05]

Hi thanks for your reply guys . The brew in question is a hard candy cider which I got from you tube . (Secue01). Which I am really tempted to drink but will hold off .i have tasted some and it tasted lovely . but still to sweet . Now I am thinking of using haribo tangfastics I don't know if you know them but they sell them in the pound shop near me . The question I have for you is could i use them in a cider . There's no Preservative in them just syrup , glucose , Dextorse That sort of thing . The only thing iam worried about is the gelatine in them . As I understand you can use this a clearing agent but is only used in 2FV . Would this be a problem in primary ? Also they are fizzy type sweets . I was thinking of boiling them down in some apple juice . Your help would be much Appreciated . Thanks

 

[calumscott]

Why don't I get this? Am I turning into a sandal wearing, elbow patch toting, beard growing, campervan driving, Tom Good clone?

If you wanted something artificially flavoured, why would you go to the bother? Surely it can't be that hard to get your hands on flavourings and just brew a kilju and lash a few drops of the raw chemical flavour in...?

Or simply buy any random alcopop...

:wha:

 

[Mattyde05]

It's just an Experiment really . To see what it tastes like only going to do 4 litres . Cheap tesco apple juice 65 p a litre . 1 pound for the sweets . Got some washed yeast in the fridge

 

[Mattyde05]

Just wanted to know what affect the gelatine would have ?

 

[Robbo]

If I'm right, Gelatin comes from animal bones and other animal parts and is used to make certain liquids to thicken.

I don't know what effect it will have in brewing. Give it a whirl and see what happens.

By the way unfermented brew always gives me a type of gut rot that is unpleasant.

 

[Mattyde05]

Thanks robbo . Think I will give it ago as it will only cost 3.60 so will just poor it away if I have to . Just trying to come up with new ways of brewing at the moment

 

[godfrey]

another member is experimenting TC with strawberry jelly

can't wait to read the results of this and the other experiment