the wife and I have really been enjoying a nice glass of hard cider this fall, so we decided to give a "hard apple juice" beverage a shot. it is simply 2.5 gallons of pressed apple juice with a slurry of Pacman yeast. that was it. "brew day" took all of 10 minutes (and that was due to cleaning and sanitizing a LBK!). this is going to sit pretty for about a 3 weeks, then we are going to rack it into a keg with another gallon of the same juice as a "back-sweetener". by doing this, it should be drinkible near the holidays...if we left it up to nature to smooth/mellow out this beverage, we would be talking MONTHS, and quite frankly, we are not that patient.
total investment for this experiment was about $18 for the 4 gallons of 100% apple juice, the yield shoud be around 30 US pints.
total investment for this experiment was about $18 for the 4 gallons of 100% apple juice, the yield shoud be around 30 US pints.