choice of yeast for turbo cider

[delboy]

Im going try me a batch of TC just wondering what would be the best yeast to use.

I have at my disposal

Nottingham
Safale 04
Gervin english
muntons premium
and some harvested california steam lager yeast

Any suggestions from the TC connesiurs on here (which one is least likely to make me blind ).

Also does anyone have a preference for which cheap apple juice they use ie tesco/sainsburys etc.

[pongobilly]

hi mate,

just opened a bottle of my first T/c

4.5l tesco apple juice

340g ROWSE blossom honey

youngs cider yeast

its great, just enough fizz for me and its only been bottled a week

[oxford brewer]

Im going try me a batch of TC just wondering what would be the best yeast to use.

I have at my disposal

Nottingham
Safale 04
Gervin english
muntons premium
and some harvested california steam lager yeast

Any suggestions from the TC connesiurs on here (which one is least likely to make me blind ).

Also does anyone have a preference for which cheap apple juice they use ie tesco/sainsburys etc.

I would use the Tescos value AJ(only because my wife shops there and brings me home Apple juice,pineapple juice,cranberry juice and lots of honey )and the safale-04.Next time you visit a HBS i would stock up on youngs cider yeast!

[delboy]

Thanks for the feedback think i'll go with safale .

Has anyone tried Lidl value crushed apple juice its cloudy but it tastes much better than any of the value juices made from concentrate (was doing a taste test this evening before putting this down 2moro).

i reckon it could make a nice scrumpy type TC. Or maybe if you fined it, it would clear it up (i would drink it cloudy, but i reckon people not used to homebrew would turn their nose up at it)

[Davi]

I sore the cloudy apple yesterday and was going to get some but it was more expensive then the del monte apple juice I got at heron foods. I was going to use t**co value.

[delboy]

Went with the lidl crushed apple juice 10L batch with 500g demera suagar under way .

[maxashton]

my TC went to hell. Tasted vile.

[steve_flack]

I have at my disposal

Nottingham
Safale 04
Gervin english
muntons premium
and some harvested california steam lager yeast

As an aside, I was told today by someone in the trade that three of those yeasts are the same strain. The Nottingham, Gervin and the Munton's.

[delboy]

Yeah i think i'd been told by DaaB (?) that the gervin and the nottingham were the same strain. Didn't know the muntons was as well, so much for muntons premium yeast (why go for 6g when you can get 11g for the asme or cheaper) .

[delboy]

my TC went to hell. Tasted vile.

Do you think it got infected??
I'm guessing its much easier to get a cider infected, must be a more hospitable place for bugs than beer wort.

[delboy]

First taste of the TC from a batch of 10L Lidl cloudy crushed apple juice (came tops in my value brand taste test) and 500g demera brown sugar.

First impressions lovely and appley with a slight taste of alcohol (warming feeling) by no means overpowering.
Not dry yet (its sitting at 1012) as its not fully fermented after about 10 days.

Im unsure how low it will go what with the suspended apple bits off setting the reading (but i digress). I'll keep an eye on it for a few days and if it doesn't go down much more im going to fine and keg this bad boy.

Has anyone else tried the TC with Lidl cloudy juice (im well impressed just wondering if its the real apples or this is just how good TC is anyway).

[mysterio]

I'm not sure about Muntons premium being the same strain. It has quite a distinctive aroma post-fermentation which I don't get from Nottingham.

[Caplan]

Thanks for the feedback think i'll go with safale .

Has anyone tried Lidl value crushed apple juice its cloudy but it tastes much better than any of the value juices made from concentrate (was doing a taste test this evening before putting this down 2moro).

i reckon it could make a nice scrumpy type TC. Or maybe if you fined it, it would clear it up (i would drink it cloudy, but i reckon people not used to homebrew would turn their nose up at it)

I used the Lidl pressed apple juice (cloudy apfelsaft stuff) for my last 'cider morello' - Much better tasting than the previous 'apple juice from concentrate' efforts. I use safale04 for ciders as standard.

[maxashton]

It didn't taste like aceto, it was more.. i dunno.
Felt like it was trying to suck my teeth off.

[delboy]

Thanks for the feedback think i'll go with safale .

Has anyone tried Lidl value crushed apple juice its cloudy but it tastes much better than any of the value juices made from concentrate (was doing a taste test this evening before putting this down 2moro).

i reckon it could make a nice scrumpy type TC. Or maybe if you fined it, it would clear it up (i would drink it cloudy, but i reckon people not used to homebrew would turn their nose up at it)

I used the Lidl pressed apple juice (cloudy apfelsaft stuff) for my last 'cider morello' - Much better tasting than the previous 'apple juice from concentrate' efforts. I use safale04 for ciders as standard.

Hi how long did you leave it before kegging/bottling (time and gravity). Hard to know if you're drinking the cloudly apple bits or suspended yeast. Did you fine yours?