Cider With Rose - In!!!

[Mitchamitri]

Cider With Rose

Experiment based on my culinary (rather than boozy) tongue:

4 litres home pressed apple juice
White wine yeast
1 litre mix of:
Fresh Orange Juice
150g honey
Half a packet youngs dried rose petals
Quarter packet French oak chips

Boiled up the 1 litre mix for a few mins.
Added to the rest of the ingredients plus yeast.

Started fermenting within 3 hours – vigorously within 12.

With rack off away from the chips and petals after a week then top up with a sugar syrup I think.

Lord knows what it’ll taste like.

[Bongo]

Sounds good let us know how it goes,i love anything smelling and tasting with rose petals in,oak also is a favourite too.Have you experimented with moroccan foods much.

[Mitchamitri]

Funny thing I was talking to someone yesterday who’s son has spent a couple of years over there and she was saying that the best way to make a tagine in this country (bearing in mind the ceramics you buy over here aren’t big enough or if they are we have nothing to cook them in that’s big enough) is to use a pressure cooker. So…I tried it this weekend and the results were superb – much, much better than any other way of doing it in this country.
Given me an idea though – if I line a wok with tin foil and put the rest of those oak chips in then find some way of lighting them. Put a rack over the top and put the lid on so the flames dies down to smoking off, then put the meat in and leave it for 10 minutes or so it’ll give me a proper smoked flavour for the tagine.

[Bongo]

Glad the pressure cooker thing worked i will have to try something similar when i get inspired,that oak set up sounds tasty,i hope you give it a go that's got me hungry now.

[Mitchamitri]

The stuff I did with rose petals and French oak looks like it is going to be delicious – initial tasting givens a good Turkish delight flavour with a nice woody dryness at the end of it – after 3 months this is going to taste great – so of course I will make another demijohn of it.

[Mitchamitri]

Right - update. This stuff is bloody horrible.

[Marts]

Taste notes please

[Mitchamitri]

Its been bottled for a little while now – theres nothing wrong with it in terms of fermentation flavours i.e. it “worked” properly.

The flavour or the roses and the wood is overwhelming. Think your grannies old, big, dark heavy chest of drawers, open the a drawer to find a bottle of Yardley English rose perfume burst all over the mothballs about 3 years ago but you only found out today.

[Marts]

A nice long condition should mellow that out.

Alternatively you could try cutting it with some standard TC to taste