I need ideas for cider for the mrs

[RobMorgan1981]

I'm not used to brewing cider, as I'm more a beer person
The Mrs likes Rekorderlig, but she doesn't like strongbow or Magners, as they give her a horrible hangover apparently.
Are any of you in the same boat? Can anyone recommend kits that may suit what she likes? With regards to flavours, she likes lots of fruity stuff, mainly strawberry and lime, but drinks most of them.

 

[Clint]

Send her out to get her own.

 

[RobMorgan1981]

She'll come back with a crate of Rekorderlig!

 

[Banbeer]

I'm not used to brewing cider, as I'm more a beer person
The Mrs likes Rekorderlig, but she doesn't like strongbow or Magners, as they give her a horrible hangover apparently.
Are any of you in the same boat? Can anyone recommend kits that may suit what she likes? With regards to flavours, she likes lots of fruity stuff, mainly strawberry and lime, but drinks most of them.

I have a recipe for a fruits and berries Turbo Cider (TC) that I used to brew for my missus and she likes Rekorderlig and Kopparberg fruit cider.
All you need is a DJ, airlock, siphon tube, 5L bucket 8 or 9 500ml bottles and the ingredients. Let me know if you're interested and I'll PM you the recipe.

 

[RobMorgan1981]

I have a recipe for a fruits and berries Turbo Cider (TC) that I used to brew for my missus and she likes Rekorderlig and Kopparberg fruit cider.
All you need is a DJ, airlock, siphon tube, 5L bucket 8 or 9 500ml bottles and the ingredients. Let me know if you're interested and I'll PM you the recipe.

Do I have to use DJ? I have FV with airlock

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

LoveBrewing do a nice apple cider kit if it’s available. My wife likes fruity ciders so I make the apple cider and add cordials - cherry works quite well.

 

[Banbeer]

Do I have to use DJ?

I find the music he puts on adds to the ambience, no you can make as much as you like but obviously you will have to convert the recipe or just brew 5L in your FV, I've only ever done this in a DJ.

 

[RobMorgan1981]

LoveBrewing do a nice apple cider kit if it’s available. My wife likes fruity ciders so I make the apple cider and add cordials - cherry works quite well.

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Excuse my ignorance, but do you add the cordial whilst brewing? Or just a splash in her glass?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Excuse my ignorance, but do you add the cordial whilst brewing? Or just a splash in her glass?

The latter. Brew normal apple cider and add flavouring as you serve - that way you can have many flavours available to suit your every mood and whatever strength of flavouring you like.

 

[Banbeer]

do you add the cordial whilst brewing? Or just a splash in her glass?

I add it to the 5L bucket post bottle.

 

[Ale House Rock]

The latter. Brew normal apple cider and add flavouring as you serve - that way you can have many flavours available to suit your every mood and whatever strength of flavouring you like.

Agree. I've made the Bulldog strawberry and lime cider but from what i recall it was apple juice concentrate with strawberry and lime favouring powder.

 

[Tim Wilkes]

Just done an "On the Rocks" peach and mango kit for Number Two Daughter. She tried it last night and pronounced it "really nice". It was quite light and definitely not as sweet as I was expecting despite only being ten days in the bottle.

 

[Banbeer]

PM sent with recipe

 

[Begbie]

PM sent with recipe

Banbeer, any chance you could be so kind to share the recipe with me too please?

I'm brewing my first cider right now, but it's only a test batch - 3 litres in a 5 litre demijohn, straight Tesco AJ with D47 yeast. Nothing else. D47 was all I had, so I'm going to see how it turns out before deciding whether to add fruit or cordial in secondary to flavour before bottling and priming. I've got some cider yeast on order too.

 

[Banbeer]

PM sent with recipe

 

[Vinotinto]

Do a 'Roddy's' Strawberry and lime.
Excellent

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/brewnight-strawberry-and-lime-tc.70852/

 

[Paul Roberts]

Kit wise Wobbly Gob do a great blood orange cider.

or make a turbo cider with rhubarb added in

 

[RobMorgan1981]

Kit wise Wobbly Gob do a great blood orange cider.

or make a turbo cider with rhubarb added in

When you say rhubarb added, do you mean just throw in some rhubarb? I have some rhubarb in the freezer, that has been chopped to inch long bits. Just chuck that in? Or do something else to it first?

 

[Crabby_patty]

I cooked the rhubarb gently in water with sugar and pectolase then strained the rhubarb and added the juice to fv and portioned the pulp into bags for use in crumbles etc . Its priming in bottles at the moment but the sample i tried had a good rhubarb flavour .

 

[Paul Roberts]

What crabby said, heat it to break it down