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Hard ciders mysterious demise
http://mason.gmu.edu/~drwillia/cider.html ^

Posted on 09/05/2012 3:10:02 AM PDT by djf

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To: chargers fan
Give these a try.
21 posted on 09/05/2012 4:00:11 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Lurker

I try to do a couple, but I had a batch go bad last year. Summertime.
The very best results are right about now, when the apples are fresh off the trees.

My problem now is if I start a batch, I might not have the room, I just mid-Aug bottled a run of Stout that is aging. That also came out really, really good, but another month or so it will get much better!


22 posted on 09/05/2012 4:00:29 AM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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To: djf; quantim; spinestein; 5Madman2; DTogo; Horatio Gates; Ribeye; decal; B Knotts; doodad; ...

Ping the homebrewing list.

Interesting article on Hard Cider.

I don’t think I have ever had a hard cider. I would love to try it someday!

Below is a link to info on making a home brew cider. There as some very interesting comments below the article.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Home-Brew-Hard-Cider-from-Scratch/


23 posted on 09/05/2012 4:03:14 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: djf

This weekend I tried a bottle of my 2008 batch and the next night a bottle from my 2010 batch. I’ve been getting the urge to brew. I always get it this time of year. Apple season is coming here in Maine.


24 posted on 09/05/2012 4:03:25 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Here’s a good song / video for all my brewing FRiends

http://youtu.be/SivSJVeNKm0


25 posted on 09/05/2012 4:07:53 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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To: Red_Devil 232

It’s ridiculously easy.

Three or four gallons of fresh cider (it can be pasteurized but NO PRESERVATIVES! NO SULFITES! NO SORBATES! NO PRESERVATIVES!) and a good yeast ( a nice bottom settling ale yeast works best).

Give it about 5 days primary, then draught it off and let is settle for a day or so and bottle.

You won’t be disappointed!


26 posted on 09/05/2012 4:09:04 AM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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To: Einherjar
Just a suggestion but, if you havent already, try Lairds Applejack - they are the country's first commercial distillery (despite what Jack Daniels and Jim Beam say) and remain the country's last commercial distiller of Applejack. Now that fall is upon us, it is great with warm cider, club soda or, straight up on the rocks.


27 posted on 09/05/2012 4:12:33 AM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: djf

“Beer is without question, like Pizza, Madonna, and fast cars, an icon of modern American culture.”

You lost me at “Madonna”


28 posted on 09/05/2012 4:15:03 AM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: djf

I don’t think one major contribution was mentioned in the article: Marketing.

Around 1840 or so I suspect newspapers were becoming more popular and affordable. With the influx of German immigrants I bet there were lots of ads featuring buxom Bavarian beer babes holding big mugs of frothy brew. That sounds silly but beer ads seem so much more alluring then cider ads.


29 posted on 09/05/2012 4:18:54 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: djf

you can inhibit bacterial growth at 4% but it will eventually find a way. 12% will generally halt any bacterial activity. incidentally, that’s why we have port today, because Portuguese wine merchants fortified their low wines with distilled spirits to preserve them on long voyages.


30 posted on 09/05/2012 4:20:49 AM PDT by RC one
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To: djf

Apple jack, beef jerky and barbeque baked beans would keep me happy most winter nights. If one of you brewers will invite me over I’ll bring the jerky.


31 posted on 09/05/2012 4:20:49 AM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: who knows what evil?
I read somewhere that there used to be special varieties of apples that were just for cider and not eating and that they have almost disappeared except for heritage orchards.

This also puts a whole different view on “Johnny Appleseed” and what he was up to.

32 posted on 09/05/2012 4:24:47 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: JoeSixPack

PING


33 posted on 09/05/2012 4:24:52 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Kyrie Eleison)
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To: RC one

Interesting. Thanks.

I know that one of the things I have to be careful about is fruit flies. They carry acetobacter.

The Romans knew. Sometimes wine (vin) would go bad (gar), because fruit flies and acetobacter had infected it. That bacteria changes ethanol to acetic acid. What we call vinegar.


34 posted on 09/05/2012 4:25:13 AM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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To: djf
I like to drink this, and buy it by the case. But like everything else the price has gone up.
35 posted on 09/05/2012 4:26:15 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: EEGator
I like Hornsby’s Crisp, the Amber is OK.

But if I am lucky I can get some Magners (imported from Ireland). Just had my last bottle on Saturday.

36 posted on 09/05/2012 4:28:40 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Holding my nose to vote.)
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To: djf

37 posted on 09/05/2012 4:30:32 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: djf
"Madonna, ... an icon of modern American culture"


38 posted on 09/05/2012 4:33:13 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: capydick

In Germany I drank something called “Apfelkorn”. Sort of an apple brandy and like brandy, delivered a lethal hangover.

Fascinating article. The last time I drank hard cider I was a fifteen year old kid with a gallon of unfermented cider & a package of Fleischmann’s yeast. Remember the carbonation now, too.


39 posted on 09/05/2012 4:34:27 AM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Is Magners available at most larger liquor stores?


40 posted on 09/05/2012 4:35:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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