Turbo cider

[Totem]

Well this is as easy as it gets! Grin
(called turbo as its so quick and easy)

Ingredients:
4.5L of pure apple juice
1tsp yeast

Method:
1. Place 3L of apple juice into a demijon (assumeing everything is sterile)
2. PLace 1tsp of yeast into the demijon
3. shake
4. leave for 36-48hrs to ferment then top with with the remaining of the juice (cant fill it right up at the start as it will foam quite a bit)
5. leave to ferment out
6. Rack off and drink (or if you like cider fizzy then prime as usual)

i thought i would try this out and i was very impressed with the results.

it is sssooooo easy

i used tesco value apple juice and SG was 1.042 so no sugar was necessary (to get to 5.5%ish) but if you want cider stronger add sugar/honey or whatever.

very good for a beginer and an expert alike!

good for trying out different yeasts also since the recipe is so simple and the ingredients vary so little.

[WoLFe]

Is it really that easy?

[Moby-Dick]

home brewing isn't that hard at all.

however make sure thet you clean everythign very well.

if you can't get proper brewing steriliser stuff , use milton tablets.

a great resource is http://www.art-of-brewing.co.uk/ I used to get loads of stuff from them

[Totem]

Yep its that easy. Ive made about 20lt so far. nice and strong too.

[Swafe]

36 hours for the first bit, then when you add 1.5 litre more... same amount of time?

[Tomo2]

i made some out of a load of fruit that was goin off and a bit of marmite we had in the cuboard when we were snowed in for a while and it was delicious and really strong me and the missis were off are barnets (heads) and a rite merry old time P.s sent her rather horny the dirty little harlet she was so get brewin lads

[Rave]

I'm always tempted to get back into home brewing, but I live an hour and a half from Dover, I can get a ferry for £25, and wine is less than 60p a bottle in France...so I really don't know if it's worth it. Still, my first proper homebrew was wicked, I got one of those super strength kits from Boots and made a gallon of pseudo malibu- it was obviously homebrewed, but it was drinkable and at least 20% strength. I had several pissups out of it and it got my best friend stupidly drunk on one occasion when he was supposed to be babysitting my little brother. As a finale, I filled an empty evian bottle with it and took it to a party at a hired venue. I tucked the bottle into my waistband (behind my back) on my way in, and when one of the bouncers caught me drinking it later I just blagged it that it was water.

That summer, I brewed another gallon of 'cherry brandy' and took it with me to Newquay for a lad's week. Not quite as stong, but it did us. My final effort was to buy a can of 'strawberry wine' and a seperate sachet of teast. That one didn't really ferment through properly; I guess it only got to about 8% and the finished product was still very sugary. If you drank a whole bottle it would give you a serious stomach ache....but I never let that stop me. On student nights out I'd cane one and then try and get into the bar ASAP so that I could water it down with a pint. On a couple of occasions I had to wait outside for half an hour doubled up in pain.....but it always passed, and it was still the equivalent of three pints for a quid.

Oh, I love being a cheap bastard.

[Matt1eD]

18 pages of your questions answered:

http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/cgi/...3122390;start=