My best cider yet - Toffee Apple

[johnmac]

I've tried brown sugar, grape juice, golden syrup, treacle and honey but this time I made toffee by boiling 1kg of sugar. Fermented this with 4 1/2 gall of Lidl apple juice. Next time I think I'll try caramel rather than toffee, see if it's even better.

[Spud395]

To clarify, how much liquid did you boil and for how long with the sugar in it.
I like the idea of toffee apple tc

[johnmac]

I used just enough to avoid burning - the water all evaporates at 100C anyway and you carry on to 155C, let it cool, break into chunks and chuck in the fermentor.

[johnmac]

FG is about 1005, so it would appear that turning the sugar into toffee makes it a bit less fermentable. You can't really taste the toffee but it makes for a lovely full bodied cider that's not at all dry.