Simple Summer Cider
A crisp, lightly sweet cider perfect for the riding lawnmower
Servings: 5 gallons
Equipment
- 2 carboys or buckets
- 1 airlock
- 1 siphon system
- 1 bottling wand if bottling rather than kegging
- 1 capper if bottling rather than kegging
Ingredients
- 5 gallons apple juice in primary
- 3 small lemon's juice in primary
- 5 grams wine tannin in primary
- 1 packet US-05 ale yeast in primary
- 1 tbsp pectic enzyme in primary, optional
- 6 grams Fermaid-O use meadtools.com to calculate alternative nutrients
- 1 cup erythritol in secondary
- 5 oz priming sugar if bottling
Instructions
- Blend primary ingredients in carboy.
- Pitch yeast.
- After 24 hours, add nutrients.
- Allow to ferment for two weeks.
- Confirm fermentation has finished using hydrometer readings.
- Transfer to secondary, sweeten with erythritol.
- If bottling, mix in priming sugar by making it into a simple syrup and blending gently in bottling bucket.
- Bottle in beer bottles with crown caps or transfer to keg and carbonate.
- Bottle conditioning may take up to six weeks.
- Serve chilled.