Scrumptious Jon's Cider

#Recipe #Booze #Cider

I lovely sweet, tart cider made by a lovely man

👤 Jonathan Bowden

🥘 Ingredients

  • apple juice
    25 l
  • glycerol
    1 tbsp
  • pectolase
    5 tsp
  • sweetner
  • white sugar
  • yeast
    2 tsp
  • yeast nutrient
    2 tsp

🍳 Cookware

  • fermenter
  • hydrometer
  1. 1
    The best apple juice for making cider at home is cold-pressed cloudy apple juice with no additives. If you can't find that specifically any apple juice without preservatives will work.
  2. 2
    Put apple juice into a sterilised fermenter . Take a hydrometer reading of the juice, you're looking for a reading of at least 1.045, if under add white sugar to compensate.
    apple juice: 25 l, white sugar
  3. 3
    Take a Ph reading of the juice, you're looking for a Ph of between 3.6-4.2. Use Malic Acid to adjust to below 4.2
  4. 4
    Add yeast , yeast nutrient , glycerol and pectolase and leave to ferment
    yeast: 2 tsp, yeast nutrient: 2 tsp, glycerol: 1 tbsp, pectolase: 5 tsp
  5. 5
    Once fermentation has finished and sediment has fallen out, syphon off the sediment into a keg. Add sweetner to taste then add enough white sugar to carbonate the keg.
    sweetner