Hello, friends! Today I'll show you how to make home-made cider!
This year I make it from red sweet and green tart apples and sweet and balmy pears.
Last year my roamer broke down,
that's why I'll use a chopper.
After one and half an hour of grinding and our apples and pears became a pot of pulp.
Now it has to be pressed by using of cheese cloth.
I've got about 9L of juice, so let's determine it's sweetness!
I use areometer
Well, this juice includes 12% of sugar,
so after fermentation it will be about....5-6% ABV.
I poured it in equal parts
Coz of not washing the apples, there must be wild yeast.
So, juice must ferment by itself
Cover it with cheese cloth and wait till fermenting.
Would-be cider's the second day under fermentation lock
The fermentation process is OK
Let's wait till fermenting out!
5 days ago cider has fermented out its sugar
Now I rack it off
I've tested it and I think it's too low-alcoholic
I've decided to put another 50g of sugar per 1 Liter.
Pour it into the jars and leave it for postfermentation.
As yet it's like a young wine to the taste, but smells like cider.
Cover with fermentation lock and let it ferment.
After 6 days I rack it off and brighten
I'm using bentonite - it's special clay.
I add to bentonite some water for mixing it till thick condition.
Close up the jar and shake well
Shake it during the day 2-3 times
then leave it for a few days till it becomes bright and clear.
After 4 days cider became bright and precipitated out
It's not so much bright as I expected but yet.
Now I rack it off again
And as always - quality control!
The smell is nice - feels apple and pear.
To the taste.... it's dry.... fruit...wine...tasty!
Now let's carbonize our cider.
The bottles you see I've antiseptisized by iodine water and washed by water.
Then I put into each bottle 1 TBSP of sugar and bottle cider
I void about 3-5 cm from the neck
Then I leave cider for about 2 weeks in dark place at room temperature for carbonization.
Hello everybody!
Today I gonna test cider made from sour-sweet apples and sweet pears
After 3 days of carbonization I've noticed, that bottles are too soft
and a thought has struck me, that bentonite has eaten wild yeast
and cider has nothing for carbonization
and I made a little trick: I've put into each bottle a pinch of wine yeast and a bit of sugar
Now let's check out what we have!
As you can see, it's well carbonized: a lot of foam and carbon dioxide.
It was carbonizing 2 weeks at room temperature and 3 days in the root cellar.
So let's smell it!
It has fruity....
fruit aroma with pear note
apple-pear-honey sweet
Let's taste!
mmmmm.......nice....very nice!
I thought it would be bitter coz of yeast - but not!
What about sweetness?......emmm...It doesn't need sweetness
slightly sweet and slightly sour
The smell is nice!
I've already drunk a glass and I can say about its alcoholic effect:
jollifies nice, I feel tipsiness
So, it's about 5 or 6% ABV....definitely...I feel
Having tasted it, I can surely say that smell is apple-pear-honey sweet
to the taste it's slightly sour...apple-sour..I feel soreness of the mouth
It's really nice.....tasty and aromatic drink
We made decent cider from apples and pears, so we can stand it or drink a chilled glass after hard working day.
From my personal experience I can say, that cider goes nice with cherry and currant fruit liqueur. So, let's put some ice-cube!
I pour out 30-40 ml of.... currant fruit liqueur.
and pour out with chilled cider
Mix it.........taste it!
Delicious!
Nice! Actually cider goes well with cocktails.  
I've tasted it with grenadine or cherry syrup,
especially nice it goes with strawberry or raspberry syrup.
What can I advise to concoction:
It's better to brighten it in natural way,
because bentonite can "eat" the yeast, but we need yeast for carbonization.
My second advice:
Usually cider is made from several kinds of apples,
rather sweet or sour-sweet apples, I used sweet pears
You can ferment it by using either wild yeast or wine yeast
But I have nothing to say about Saf Levure yeast or others.
I reveal a little secret to you! I have for you at least 2 recipes of cider.
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Cheers!
