New to brewing!

[clarkey2r]

Hi all

I am new to all this brewing lark, I have been around in the Kit brews forum but only a month or so!

So, I have been given some frozen berries, I have about 500g's of logan berries and rasberries (maybe a little more) and I was wondering if I could add this together with some pure apple juice to make cider??

Any help/advice is much appreciated!!

clarkey

[DREADSKIN]

you could indeea, or add 500g of sugar to it and youd get wine.

[chris111]

im fairly new to using ingredients besides apple juice or kits so what would one need to make a 1 gallon batch of fruit cider. Sorry if ive hijacked just seems a good idea OP.

[DREADSKIN]

fruit pulped, apple juice and a mug of tea.

[clarkey2r]

Tea?

Also does all the fruit have to be strained or literally just pulped with a blender?

[clarkey2r]

also what sort of apple juice do i need to buy? where is the best place to buy it from?

[Spud395]

Yeah you heard right TEA. A big strong (3 bags) mug of tea. I pulp in a blender.
I use a mix of Aldi, Lidl and Tesco cheap AJ.
100% juice from concentrate with no other ingredents.
Put on one today with all Lidl AJ an apple and a handfull of raisans.
For a change I cut the apple into chunks washed the raisans and boiled both of these with some unrefined caster sugar (it was in the press) then added this to the AJ and tea.
Threw in half a sachet of champagne yeast and she started bubbling after an hour or so.

It's as easy as it gets

[clarkey2r]

How long do you ferment it for?
do you rack it or just bottle it and leave it for a week??

[Spud395]

Untill it stops, kinda 10-14 days I think. 14 is allways good, weekend to weekend.
Expect a pretty low FG 992-994 ish
Bottle with some sugar and leave to carb up if you like a fizzy cider

[clarkey2r]

I put my 2 TC's in on Saturday evening and fermentation seems to have slowed right down, it almost stopped! could I pop my finnings in tonight and bottle it tomorrow??

[Spud395]

I'd leave it a for 3-4 days, but I dont use finnings!

Almost stopped and stopped are a good bit different as well