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You need to start with good apples.
<br>A mixture of sweet and tart arr the best. Red and gold delicious,
Granny Smith, Braebury, Gala, etc. You need the tart apples with
the acids to balance the sweet apples. It also adds complexity of
flavor and a nice roundness.
<br>Woodchuck and others do not add extra sugars to ferment, they will
add sugars after ferment (and stabilization, either sorbastat or pasturization).
<br>Red Star Cote de Blanc is a nice easy good yeast to use.
<br>Sugars 1.040 to 1.060 Acid
.8 to 1.0 titrate as tartaric.
<p>Mash the apples into a pulp (pomace), then let sit and brown slightly.
Then press the pomace in a wine or fruit press. <font color="#FF0000">A
food processor will not do.</font><font color="#000000"> Some
cidermakers will add the browning thru caramel colors.</font><font color="#000000"></font>
<p><font color="#000000">Hope this can get you started.</font>
<p>Bowen MacTarbh wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Greetings unto the list;
<p> A friend recently introduced me to alcoholic
apple cider, a brand
<br>called woodchuck. I now turn to the list for information on brewing
a good
<br>sweet apple cider.
<p>
Respectfully;
<br>
Bowen
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