A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

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A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by JohnnyD » Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:04 pm

Hi All

Done the wine and beer thing recently with good results, can anyone recommend a nice dry/scrumpy style (cloudy maybe) cider kit?

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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by davew » Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:33 pm

Look up turbo cider. 23l supermarket apple juice. 1 litre of strong tea made with 4 bags. Tablespoon of tomato purée as nutrient. Yeast of your choice. Some add honey, some add sugar. The world is your oyster.
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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by Pinto » Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:17 am

If you're after a scrumpy style dry cider, you might want to shred a few bramley cookers and add them to the FV. When fermented out, just bottle without priming sugar for a flat cider.
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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by oldbloke » Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:22 am

For a proper scrumpy you need to get a secondary malolactic ferment. Culture up some yeast from the dregs of a bottle of Old Rosie. After the normal yeast ferment, leave it to do the malolactic thing for a few months.
Can't stand the stuff myself, prefer a clean cider.
Some wine yeasts give a slightly funky scrumpyish edge without all the malolactic bother - try Gervin D. It's not the same, but it's better than nowt.
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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by Pinto » Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:31 am

oldbloke wrote:Can't stand the stuff myself, prefer a clean cider.
agreed 110% :)
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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by jmc » Fri Aug 21, 2015 3:43 pm

Pinto wrote:
oldbloke wrote:Can't stand the stuff myself, prefer a clean cider.
agreed 110% :)
It takes all sorts :wink:
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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by oldbloke » Sat Aug 22, 2015 1:14 am

jmc wrote:
Pinto wrote:
oldbloke wrote:Can't stand the stuff myself, prefer a clean cider.
agreed 110% :)
It takes all sorts :wink:
Grew up in Zummerzet. You get quite bored with straight-from-the-farm stuff fairly quickly. A lot of its rubbish. Strength is no substitute for flavour, and I can do without the hangovers
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Re: A nice dry/scrumpy style cider

Post by JamesF » Sat Aug 22, 2015 2:13 am

oldbloke wrote:Grew up in Zummerzet. You get quite bored with straight-from-the-farm stuff fairly quickly. A lot of its rubbish. Strength is no substitute for flavour, and I can do without the hangovers
Grew up there, left, came back twenty years later. I have to agree. Generally I hold to the opinion that a cloudy cider has not been made with sufficient care. The reason so many teenagers used to drink cider so cloudy that you couldn't see the other side of the glass was because it was cheap because no other bugger would drink it. We used to pick it up by the demi-john from local farms and I reckon the demi-john was probably worth more than the contents.

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