Vimto cider

[Cainehulse]

Okie doke think I might just go for something abit more simple next time

 

[Slid]

Am I being dense here?
Surely the way to do a Vimto cider is to make the cider first then add the Vimto later, either at bottling or drinking?

I once thought making a stout and turbo cider altogether would be a good idea. Not any more! So I am pretty dense :p

 

[Cainehulse]

Finally we now have steady fermentation happening can't wait to try this when it bottled

 

[Frogbrew]

I would taste it before you bottle as the vimto leaves a very sweet taste, I made this mistake by backsweetening with a tsp of splenda to half my bottles and they were way too sweet for me.

 

[Cainehulse]

Will do cheers for the advice if I wanted to take the sweetness away what would be the best option?

 

[Frogbrew]

Will do cheers for the advice if I wanted to take the sweetness away what would be the best option?

I don't think you can as the vimto has artificial sweeteners in it which don't ferment out like sugar does.

 

[Cainehulse]

Just one last question when Ido bottle this cider I'm going to batch prime I like cider medium to very fizzy what sort of sugar levels should I use was thinking about 100grams would this be enough?

 

[Cainehulse]

Right my cider is nearly done it's at 1014 from 1090 hopefully should be done in a few days however it tastes like I'm drinking just pure vimto concentrate I've got 10litres of it if I add water to it will it be just like adding water to normal vimto? Or would it be better to add more aj?

 

[fastlad21]

I'm not 100% but I imagine adding more aj would also increase the abv% unless fermentation is stopped. But as said I'm not sure.

 

[Cainehulse]

I added 5 litres of aj today and it's calmed the taste down and it's now a lot smother it's sat at around 11%abv ATM by the time it's done it'll be about 14 I just need to figure out how much priming sugar ill need it's going in a mixture of 500 & 300ml bottles any help? I've got 15litres to bottle

 

[Chippy_Tea]

At 14% that's not cider its wine. :hmm:

2.1 What is cider?

In the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979, 'cider' is defined as 'cider or perry of a strength exceeding 1.2 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV) but less than 8.5 per cent ABV obtained from the fermentation of apple or pear juice without the addition at any time of any alcoholic liquor or of any liquor or substance which communicates colour or flavour other than such as the Commissioners may allow as appearing to them to be necessary to make cider or perry' - see paragraph 5.5 and section 25.

In addition, from 1 September 2010, the cider definition was extended to provide that 'the pre-fermentation mixture satisfies the pre-fermentation requirement' and the cider 'satisfies the final product juice requirement' - for further details see section 30.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

At 14% that's not cider its wine. :hmm:

2.1 What is cider?

In the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979, 'cider' is defined as 'cider or perry of a strength exceeding 1.2 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV) but less than 8.5 per cent ABV obtained from the fermentation of apple or pear juice without the addition at any time of any alcoholic liquor or of any liquor or substance which communicates colour or flavour other than such as the Commissioners may allow as appearing to them to be necessary to make cider or perry' - see paragraph 5.5 and section 25.

In addition, from 1 September 2010, the cider definition was extended to provide that 'the pre-fermentation mixture satisfies the pre-fermentation requirement' and the cider 'satisfies the final product juice requirement' - for further details see section 30.