Cheap Apple Juice at Lidl

[Bryggmester]

Half price apple juice at Lidl this Saturday and Sunday, reduced to 46p for 1.5ltr.

[jmc]

Hi Bryggmester

Thanks for the heads up.

I bought this stuff when it was last going cheap. It makes very good turbo cider.

ATB John

[Geezah]

Nice one, thanks for the heads up. I'm down to my last 24 cartons from my big buy of this last year.
I guess i'll get weird looks again at the till when I pick up another 50 cartons.

[avtovaz]

right, whats the best tc to do if you want something to bottle and get fizzy and not be more than 5%?

[jmc]

Hi Avtovaz

I based my Turbo Cider on this post.

I used Safbrew WB-06 yeast as I heard it didn't brew TC too dry Link for more info.
I kegged it and did some bottles and yeast settled fine.

Supermarket apple juice likely to have an OG of around 1048 and TC FG of less than 1002, so minimum % alcohol likely to be 6%+, unless you water it down, which I wouldn't do.

BTW: The recipe I used (above link) includes some honey so it ended up about 7%

ATB John

[Lee G]

just been and got 18 liters of juice. hate seeing a fv sitting empty.

[avtovaz]

right i have bought 9 ltrs of apple juice, and i plan to make cider in a DJ, i plan to put some honey, and some apples too...



Any idea on quantities ?


will normal type apples do ?

if i add cinimon powder will that be good too? If so how much.

[jmc]

Hi Avtovaz

I normally use Bramley apples.
In autumn I add some crab apples too for extra bite / taste.

I think the idea is to balance the dessert apple juice with some cooking apple juice for acidity, and some tannin.
Extra tannin supplied by tea as well.

See this post Turbo Cider for sample recipe and you can scale to your 9L of AJ.

I normally initially brew with grated apples in a mash bag so that its easy to remove apple pulp after 10 days to 2 weeks.
This has resulted in bright, clear (very tasty) cider for the last 3 brews.

I've never added a spice like cinnamon so I can't help you there.

Goog Luck!


ATB John

[avtovaz]

grr, forgot to add the tea!!!

i put one dj with 4 red apples from co-op, some cinimon, about 200g of honey, and made the rest up with aldi apple juice..

another the same with out the apples...


I forgot the tea!!!



Itll be ok adding tomorrow>?

[Bryggmester]

I suppose you could always top up with cold strong tea on the first racking, although I have never done it this way myself I can't see why not.

[avtovaz]

thanks