Home Brewing Recipes - More Cider

I liked my home brewed cider recipe so much that I thought I would try it again. The taste was good with a nice mixture with the cinnamon and orange zest. The only criticism I have of it was that it was super carbonated.

When I say super carbonated, I mean that if you opened it a little too aggressively it would geyser everywhere leaving you nothing to drink. The same thing would happen if you tried to open it when it was too warm. Not a good thing.

So for this time I am going to pull back on the fermentable sugars, and change up the yeast a bit. So here is the second recipe:

5 gallons of apple cider. This time it will have bee UV pastureized, but with no added preservatives.

1 cup honey
1 lb brown sugar

Cinnamon. I am going to used powdered this time as opposed to sticks.

Orange zest.

Cote du blanc yeast. I am going to use 2 packets in the primary, and then a second when I go to the secondary.

I will let you know how this turns out when it is ready. And that will be in quite awhile, because it is going to sit in the primary for a good 2 weeks, and the same in the secondary. Bottling will take it out to a 6 week process, and hopefully will produce some real fine drinking cider.