The Great TURBO CIDER

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:35 am

DaaB wrote:
Now that I have my spanner it means I can empty my fermenter and use it for Cider
eh!

I was waiting on the spanner so I can rack my beer to my King Keg. I thikn one of my problems last time I used my KK was that the lid wasn't on tight enough so I very slowly lost pressure.

I can rack off and the fermenter is free for use

All makes sense when you know the full story

Thanks for the advise, I'll use the Beer Yeast.

Will the Champagne be good for anything else (a high gravity beer perhaps?)

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:57 am

DaaB wrote:
I'd consider changing the seals on the s30 valve

Think I have a couple of spare seals knocking around so I'll give this a go. Thanks

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:35 pm

Might throw in some yeast nutrient as well - can't see that doing any harm

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:50 pm

Well, I have started the TC

20 Litres Morrisons Apple Juice (the cheap variety)
500g Light Brown Sugar
500g Dark Brown Sugar
2 tspn Yeast Nutrient
2 Sticks Cinnamon

Got an OG of 1.066 - should be some wickedly powerful stuff

ColinKeb · Post by **ColinKeb** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:58 pm

i think im going to have a go at this stuff myself , not quite in the quantities your doing pieopah though, just enough to keep my hands off the chrimo beer

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:24 am

Well my TC has been fermenting for almost a week now and it is showing no signs of slowing down.

There is still quite a large head of krausen.

The strange thing is that the gravity hasn't actually changed that much.

OG 1.066 but is now 1.042

It was the same over 24 hours ago when I checked.

I never saw my first TC ferment as I was away. This is possibly quite normal. It is also possibly too cold. NM I'll let it carry on

Calum · Post by **Calum** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:50 pm

My TC took a good fortnight to ferment and even then there still seemed to be some slight activity. The room it was in fluctuates between about 20c and 22C so I think it was warm enough (I was going to change the name from Turbo Cider to Moderately Quick but not Rushing Cider). In the end I placed it the garage and the cold weather cleared it 24hrs.

I bought 8 litres of asda apple juice for 4 quid the other day so plan to get some more going over the weekend.

Frothy · Post by **Frothy** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:26 pm

The turbo cider is on the ceiling!!!!!! Been in the bottles for 3 days and it's explosive

Matt

chrisbooth0070 · Post by **chrisbooth0070** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:57 pm

Just made my 3rd turbo cider. 5litres Somerfield Pure Apple Juice and 300g Blossom Honey. Smells lovely

OG 1068, gonna be a strong one $\:D/$

Orfy · Post by **Orfy** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:34 pm

Mines in secondary and is taking it's time settling.

I think I may sick a syphon in and drink it straight from the demijohn.

chrisbooth0070 · Post by **chrisbooth0070** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:43 pm

Bubbling away nicely. Found an old 5l bells bottle in the attick whilst getting the Christmas stuff down. Not as if TC is ever a spare of the moment thing

As you can see from the beer lin, my cornie is empty

1 gallon batch of Hefe in little white bucket too.

Chris

Calum · Post by **Calum** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:30 pm

Found an old 5l bells bottle in the attick whilst getting the Christmas stuff down.

I used one of those for bottling my first ever kit about 20 years ago when I was still at my parents house.......you guessed it, a couple of days later it exploded

My mum went mental - it still makes me smile!!!

tubby_shaw · Post by **tubby_shaw** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:28 pm

It must be adictive

I am on my third batch of TC now

it's good but a bit dry(understatement)
Question for the TC experts, has any one tried using granulated sweetner after fermentation has finished, the stuff that we have lists the ingredients as aspartame and malto dextrin. I know aspartame is unfermentable and as it is the moltodextrins left in beer that give mouthfeel and residual sweetnes could this be the way forward?

prolix · Post by **prolix** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:43 pm

Had a batch on now for 4 days, 8L of morrisons apple juice, 8L was on special, using Deadlydes' original recipe. It had an eight inch head in my 23L carboy! and is still bubbling 4 times a minute. Hope the anticipation is not misplaced.

Vossy1 · Post by **Vossy1** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:20 pm

Question for the TC experts, has any one tried using granulated sweetner after fermentation has finished, the stuff that we have lists the ingredients as aspartame and malto dextrin. I know aspartame is unfermentable and as it is the moltodextrins left in beer that give mouthfeel and residual sweetnes could this be the way forward?

I have seen the use of these sweeteners recommended on this, and other forums...seems to be the way to get past more fermentables in an already dry cider

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