Mine stayed cloudy but i'm sure it was from the apple rather than the yeast - All my previous attempts using non-cloudy juice and safaleS04 cleared quickly.
I bottled it after about 4 weeks but it didn't include much extra sugar so was lower ABV. Leaving it longer before bottling if your not fully convinced it's free of supended yeast certainly won't hurt.
choice of yeast for turbo cider
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delboy
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delboy
Had a few tasters from the kegged TC, its real dry with a pretty bad after taste, swmbo wrinkled up her face stuck out her toungue and went bleehhh whilst handing me the glass straight back.
I used the cloudly lidl juice which tastes lovely out of the carton so im pretty surprised and dissapointed. Im hoping its suspended yeast ,nowhere for the yeast taste to hide in cider and because its cloudy cider i can't tell if its yeast or apple particles. Or oxidation, it was sitting in an ordinary fermenting bucket for a month.
Anyone had experience of this, will it improve or is it likely to be sacrificed on mount sink to the brewing gods???
I used the cloudly lidl juice which tastes lovely out of the carton so im pretty surprised and dissapointed. Im hoping its suspended yeast ,nowhere for the yeast taste to hide in cider and because its cloudy cider i can't tell if its yeast or apple particles. Or oxidation, it was sitting in an ordinary fermenting bucket for a month.
Anyone had experience of this, will it improve or is it likely to be sacrificed on mount sink to the brewing gods???
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deadlydes
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delboy
What sort of flavours does it bring to the cider (i admit im reluctant to pay a fiver for yeast just to make cider, are you propagating the yeast or doing one of jims starter split into 6 methods to keep the cost down!!deadlydes wrote:the WLP 775 cider yeast totally revolutionized TC for me.
i would not do another batch with a different yeast (unless more decent cider yeasts come available)
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chrisbooth0070
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deadlydes
Delboy:
i found that with an ale or wine yeast or even the bread yeast the cider was quite sharp, tart, thin perhaps and very dry
with the wlp775 it is just so much more apple-ly, slightly sweeter, more mouthfeel and just so much more body.
regarding youngs cider yeast: thats not bad either. better than the other yeasts apart from the wlp775
i found that with an ale or wine yeast or even the bread yeast the cider was quite sharp, tart, thin perhaps and very dry
with the wlp775 it is just so much more apple-ly, slightly sweeter, more mouthfeel and just so much more body.
regarding youngs cider yeast: thats not bad either. better than the other yeasts apart from the wlp775