Hopped Cider?

[Secue]

Righto then m'lads, the wife is gluten free and so cant drink beer. I think if I was to buy a gluten free beer kit, she'd drink about one beer a month though if I was lucky...taking up oodles of my bottles for the forseeable future. So, I was toying with the idea of hopping a cider. Anyone ever done this before? Any suggestions of best hops to use? I've got fuggles, east kent goldings, willamette, chinook, galaxy and whitbread goldings.

I was just going to do a test gallon to see what like.

Thoughts?

Ta

[oldbloke]

I suspect there's a reason there are no hopped ciders in the commercial market, but it won't cost you much to make a trial gallon to check.

The "Gone With The Wheat" kits aren't bad, or you could malt/roast/mash some millet - that definitely works.

[Spud395]

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[Secue]

lol spud, I saw that as well, I'm defo going to try a dry hopped cider. Is galaxy a pretty pungent aroma hop? might try that. That's interesting about millet old bloke, don't suppose you have a recipe?

[oldbloke]

lol spud, I saw that as well, I'm defo going to try a dry hopped cider. Is galaxy a pretty pungent aroma hop? might try that. That's interesting about millet old bloke, don't suppose you have a recipe?

Well, I did it just as an experiment with some cheap millet from an Asian grocer's. About a pound of millet makes a gallon. It has to be malted (sprout/kiln/roast), mashed (I tried for a stepped mash to get as many enzyme rests as poss but it was all a bit hit'n'miss on temperature control so I chucked in some amylase as well), then proceed as normal. Next time I have the tuits I'll get some better millet off ebay.
In theory a pound of millet has enough sugars (if correctly malted and mashed) not to need to add any but the hydrometer disagreed so I ended up putting 8oz of sugar in! The flavour is pretty close to a barley malt though - it's all in the roast, I reckon.