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Friday, December 24, 2004
Spiced Cider Recipe
My last batch of spiced cider came out excellent, so here's the recipe:
5 Gallons of unfiltered Cider
10 sticks of Cinnamon
1 tbs whole cloves
1 tbs whole allspice
1 tsp nutmeg powder
1.5 lbs light brown sugar
White Labs Cider Yeast
Throw all ingredients into a pot and boil for one hour, cool and pitch yeast.
Ferment 10 days, rack to a secondary, let fermentation continue until complete (4-5 days).
Prime with 2/3 cup table sugar, bottle and let condition for 2-3 weeks.
Original Gravity: 62
Final Gravity: 4
Alc 7.482%
Notes:
Despite its high level of alcohol, the final product is fairly dry, slightly sweet, lightly carbonated, and without any of the alcohol smell or flavor you'd expect with a 7.5% drink.
The cloves are a bit heavy in the final flavor, unless you really like cloves I would cut them down to about 3/4 of a tbs. You might also use 3/4 of a cup of sugar if you like a high level of carbonation.
5 Gallons of unfiltered Cider
10 sticks of Cinnamon
1 tbs whole cloves
1 tbs whole allspice
1 tsp nutmeg powder
1.5 lbs light brown sugar
White Labs Cider Yeast
Throw all ingredients into a pot and boil for one hour, cool and pitch yeast.
Ferment 10 days, rack to a secondary, let fermentation continue until complete (4-5 days).
Prime with 2/3 cup table sugar, bottle and let condition for 2-3 weeks.
Original Gravity: 62
Final Gravity: 4
Alc 7.482%
Notes:
Despite its high level of alcohol, the final product is fairly dry, slightly sweet, lightly carbonated, and without any of the alcohol smell or flavor you'd expect with a 7.5% drink.
The cloves are a bit heavy in the final flavor, unless you really like cloves I would cut them down to about 3/4 of a tbs. You might also use 3/4 of a cup of sugar if you like a high level of carbonation.
Friday, December 17, 2004
Dangerous work
I was making a yeast starter yesterday and I screwed up. I took a 750ml beer bottle out of my hot sanitizer solution, and proceeded to pour nearly boiling wort into it, filling it about 1/2 way. Then, for some reason, I decided to cool the bottle rapidly by running cold water over it.
So, I'm standing at my sink bottle in hand running cold over it, when I hear a click. CLICK.
I freeze and the bottom of the bottle falls off in a very neat, clean cut. Hot wort splashes everywhere, burring my arm from elbow to wrist. That hurts, it hurts a lot.
So don't let anyone tell you brewing beer isn't dangerous work!
Also, remember that glass is very temperature sensitive and it will break if you do something stupid.
So, I'm standing at my sink bottle in hand running cold over it, when I hear a click. CLICK.
I freeze and the bottom of the bottle falls off in a very neat, clean cut. Hot wort splashes everywhere, burring my arm from elbow to wrist. That hurts, it hurts a lot.
So don't let anyone tell you brewing beer isn't dangerous work!
Also, remember that glass is very temperature sensitive and it will break if you do something stupid.
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