TURBO CIDER

This as you can probably guess is a quick cider. It’s one of those recipes that is simple and can be experimented with to produce a drink to suit your own preferences ie light, strong or full bodied. The basic recipe is as follows:-

Ingredients: 4.5 litres of pure apple juice 1 tsp yeast & 1 tsp nutrient

Method: 1. Place 3 litres of Apple Juice into a previously sterilised demijohn2. Add 1 tsp yeast and 1 tsp nutrient to the demijohn 3. Shake & cover 4. Leave for 36-48 hrs to ferment, then top up with the remaining juice and water (don't fill right up at the start as it may foam quite a bit)5. Leave to ferment out 6. Rack off and drink - or if you like cider fizzy then prime with ½ tsp sugar per pint & store for 5 days in a warm place, then serve cold.

Using Tesco Value Apple Juice the S.G is about 1.042 so no sugar is necessary (to get 5.5% ish) but if you want stronger cider, add half a pound of granulated sugar & it will come out at 8% ish. You can also add sweetener after fermenting out for a sweeter brew. Experiment by using different brands of juice, sugars or honey. Enjoy!!

EIDELWEIN

1 litre Grape Juice1 litre Apple Juice

800g sugar 1 tsp citric acid

½ tsp tannin1 tsp pectic enzymeyeast nutrient

general purpose yeast2 litres water

Mix together the juice, water, citric acid, tannin and pectic enzyme together in demi-john. Seal and leave for 24 hours. Add nutrient and active yeast, fit airlock and ferment for 2 days. Remove some of the must, dissolve the sugar and add to the demi-john, top up to 1 gallon with cold boiled water, replace the airlock and ferment

out to dryness. Rack where appropriate.

This wine is a back to basics recipe making a light, dry white wine. Why not experiment & use

orange or pineapple use instead (or with) the apple juice?