Ceejay
Landlord.
So, first Turbo Cider (or anything else for that matter) brew day today. This is going to be a quick 17 day brew as I want to drink it on the 18th December.
Ingredients are 22l of Asda Smartprice Apple Juice and a sachet of Vitners Harvest SN9 yeast, which I was assured would be fairly neutral and was ideal for cider. I don't want this to be rocket fuel and I thought it'd be a good idea just to do apple juice + yeast to get a feel for what it tastes like first and then experiment with tea, honey, sugar etc in later brews. It has to be a quaffable brew so with the apple juice already having an SG of 1.045 I didnt bother adding any sugar. Assuming it ferments down to 1.000, it should yeald and ABV of 5.8% ish
Method - Just sanitised everything, sloshed half the apple juice into the fermenting bin from height to airate it. Stuck the yeast in and then sloshed the rest of the apple juice in. Lid on, bubbler in. Nothing happening after an hour or so although the temp was about 15 degrees so I'm not too concerned. It's sitting near a radiator in the warmest room in the house and I'll wrap it in a sleeping bag once it's got up to 20 degrees ish. Now the wait :whistle:
Ingredients are 22l of Asda Smartprice Apple Juice and a sachet of Vitners Harvest SN9 yeast, which I was assured would be fairly neutral and was ideal for cider. I don't want this to be rocket fuel and I thought it'd be a good idea just to do apple juice + yeast to get a feel for what it tastes like first and then experiment with tea, honey, sugar etc in later brews. It has to be a quaffable brew so with the apple juice already having an SG of 1.045 I didnt bother adding any sugar. Assuming it ferments down to 1.000, it should yeald and ABV of 5.8% ish
Method - Just sanitised everything, sloshed half the apple juice into the fermenting bin from height to airate it. Stuck the yeast in and then sloshed the rest of the apple juice in. Lid on, bubbler in. Nothing happening after an hour or so although the temp was about 15 degrees so I'm not too concerned. It's sitting near a radiator in the warmest room in the house and I'll wrap it in a sleeping bag once it's got up to 20 degrees ish. Now the wait :whistle: