New year cider experiments
A new year and a new brew! It’s been longer than two days which I said last time….
I’ll be running four cider experiments, first being cloudy juice vs clear (from concentrate), second being cloudy and clear ciders flavoured with black cherry concentrate, third being a cider yeast vs an Ale yeast (Wyeast 1056) just with cloudy cider and the fourth will be a perry in the cider vs ale yeast. Hopefully all will turn out nice and tasty 
Youngs Cider yeast:
- Cloudy cider
- Clear cider
- Cloudy black cherry cider (flavoured with cherry concentrate)
- Clear black cherry cider (flavoured with cherry concentrate)
- Perry (pear juice)
American Ale 1056
- Cloudy cider
- Perry (pear juice)
- Forst flowers mead
- Red or white grape juice
As you can see I have a few different types to get through. I’m making small batches, 1 gallon demijohn each, so I can see what works out best. I’m fairly confident about the cloudy ciders, the mead and the grape batches. The others are juices are from concentrate, while they’ll have plenty of sugar I’m intrested to see if they keep their flavours or if the added absorbic acid contributes to any off flavours. Another off the shelf juice is available to me but is twice the price! Although it contains alot more pulp from pear, I think with that I’d get a large yeast cake at the bottom of the demijohn or at the very least a very cloudy perry.
I’ve chosen the american ale 1056 as the Basic Brewing guys used it for mead with great results, they got a sweetish mead out of it. I want to give it a go with ciders to see what results I get from it.