My first Turbo Cider

[nathanc]

Ok yesterday had a brew day and decided to do 10l of turbo cider.

I made a dry and a sweet cider using the following recipes....

Dry

5 Litres of AJ
1kg of sugar
Yeast

Sweet

5 litres of AJ
1kg og Sugar
1 Jar of Honey
Yeast

They are bubbling away nicely :

However as i think i may have taken the reading on the hydro wrong as they bot are 1.684 OG

Ill let you know how it goes :drunk:

 

[AndyMc133]

That sounds like a lot of sugar not sure if you were wanting to drink this or run your car on it :hmm:

 

[evanvine]

1684!!!
You sure you're not fermenting treacle

 

[Moley]

A very quick maths approximation tells me that would be about 1.8kg of sugar in the litre. :shock:

The sort of hydrometers we use generally stop around 1.140 so I think your reading is probably just a tad out.

 

[nathanc]

1.069 sorry was my reading Typo and idiot lol

 

[evanvine]

1.069 sorry was my reading Typo and idiot lol

Worry not, it made me smile

 

[phoenix68]

I would have thought a 1kg of sugar and a jar 1lb are of honey (400 +g) would have a higher SG than that even without the apple juice this would have an SG of 1120 that's 16% alcoholle add the apple sugars to this and the hydrometer would be off the scale,got to be looking at 19% not sure about sweet I think head banging is the word.I'd be intersted to know what it turns out like.
I do like the Idea of the honey tho I think I will try a gallon with the honey and forget the saugar all togehter

Cheers Graham.