Im gonna try this once Ive ran my 1/2 marathon and Im back on the alcohol.

Cheers

I just had another look and theres been a big change.

Theres lots more white gunge at the bottom and the bubbling has pretty much stopped. Now theres only the occasional big bubble, whereas before it was millions of tiny ones. Its clearing up a bit too, looks a lot less murky than it did last night. I think its nearly ready.


Im guessing itll be ready to syphon off tomorrow, and then maybe I can taste-test it.

edit: Ive been thinking about the syphoning part of this process and in hindsight I think itd be better to use a larger bottle and more apple juice, just to give the stuff a better chance to settle at the bottom. Im worried that syphoning will suck up all the crap because its faily shallow - I guess Ill have to wait and see. I read somewhere its ok to drink cloudy, but Id like to get it fairly clear.

Its a nice pumpkiny colour right now, but theres still a lot of very fine sediment floating in it, this is cos its still slowly bubbling up and the crap is so tiny the bubbles carry it up to the top. I poured a tiny bit onto a flat plate and you can see theres loads of it still in suspension.

Patience is required for this. Im not touching it again for at least 2 weeks now.

I worked out that my sugar content was around 25%, 11% from the juice and the rest I added, so it should be quite strong. It smells nearer 10% than 5%, which Im happy with.

I syphoned it off on monday, and that cleared it nicely, but then I syphoned it off again this morning and now its the colour of apple juice again.

It actually tastes really nice flat, sweet but not sicky. I think its nearer 5-6% than ten, but yeah smells a wee bit funny but its dead tasty.

flat? so like scrumpy then? Nice....

you need to prime it when you put it into bottles.
Add a spoon of sugar & it should give it some fizz if you leave it in a bottle for a few days.

Sounds damn fun, defintly something to try when I got some spare time (why didnt someone post this when I was un-employed!)

And as someone said why didnt i know about this when a kid?

Tesco wont sell you beer so you go buy 5Lrs of cider and some brew yeast

Im gonna get a 5l bottle tomorrow and do another batch of the stuff

have you drunk the first yet?
Demijohns are only £5 each - since you need to syphon from one to another, you will need two.

My brewing equipment consists of about 15 demijohns & 3x 25l brewing buckets. Just as easy & quick to brew 25l as it is 5l - except for the filling up with water & transfering containers. But the whole processing time is the same

I read somewhere recently that you can make something similar to mead by adding honey to the fermentation process.

Also apparently adding other pure juices can produce tasty results.

Quote from: sexytwI read somewhere recently that you can make something similar to mead by adding honey to the fermentation process.

Also apparently adding other pure juices can produce tasty results.

Yep, I think Ive mentioned that elswhere  :?

Quote from: Eggtastico

Quote from: sexytwI read somewhere recently that you can make something similar to mead by adding honey to the fermentation process.

Also apparently adding other pure juices can produce tasty results.

Yep, I think Ive mentioned that elswhere  :?

Hmmm, maybe the somewhere i read it was here!  

I was in tescos today and pure juices (not from concentrate) are pretty costy. They had pure apple juice for 77p per litre but most others (grape, pineapple etc) were around £1.40 a litre.

Would have prefered to use nice juice but ill probably go for the tesco value stuff!

CHEAPER THE BETTER, THERES ADDED SUGAR THEN :-d

I got mine from morrisons. Didnt look at the price but the cheap stuff is hidden miles from the expensive stuff, like in a corner at the opposite end of the shop.

Currently there are £10 off £30 spend at tesco online vouchers floating around

They also have DelMonty Pure Apple juice as buy on get on free (maximum of 10 per order). So ...

Order upto £30 of BOGOF things (in reality this is only £15 of things but the discount is applied later), apply the code for £10 off, and add £5ish for delivery ... result is £30 worth of things (inc 10 litres of pure apple juice) delivered for £10!!

Mine arrives tonight ... hopefully

I finally got mine on the go. I bought some Youngs Cider Yeast so hopefully it will be nice and tasty.

Ive got two containers:

Container 1: 16 liters of apple juice and 1kg of sugar
Container 2: 4 liters of apple juice and 990g of honey

The specific gravity of container 2 suggests that it might come out at around 14% I didnt check the SG of container 1 as the sugar isnt very dissolved.

It all went in about an hour ago .... not much activity yet