AnthonyC

ATF notified. ?

Even considered non-carb version that could have a dash of spice and served warm... but I hear ya on the sick thing.

Live my dream, Creeps. Make the Bourbon recipe!

Ozzy Osborne? ? Once it hits the bucket it stays put. 3 weeks max. Not even a secondary b/c I feel like cider needs some sediment to give it authenticity. Most amount of hops I've added to cider was 1oz of Mosaic @ 5mins. A little went a long way in cider... and you know that I over do EVERYTHING!

Creeps, the hardest part about making a cider is finding your desired sweetness. You can throw just about anything you want in there. If I wasn't so focused on getting these AG recipes going I'd probably brew 2 or 3 cider recipes. I wanted to do a Hard Peach Apple with peaches from the orchard and maybe even a graft with wheat LME, flaked wheat, and 2-row, and an Apple Jack w/Bourbon and just a few French Oak Chips. Just don't see it happening this year.

...ah, just realized that I never mentioned that all of my ciders are carbonated.

Don't forget Creeps that I was using the Mr. Beer Hard Pear Cider recipe initially. Hop schedule was for the hopped cider only. When I use orchard cider I still like to boil it b/c I like to add a little LME or DME + I am paranoid over getting infections. It's a quick boil--15mins tops.

Of all of them that I've made I would say my favorites are (in no particular order): Ginger, Hopped, Spiced, Pumpkin Spiced, & the Graft.

Always at 5mins left. I was living in fear of caramelizing the sugar and I didn't want that "burned sugar" taste in there.

Every time that I've made cider I've had to bomb the crap out of it w/lactose to get it how I like it. I was going for something between a Red's and a not too sweet cider. I'm sure there are 1,000's of opinions on that.

Forced post... but I'll work with it. Let me eat and then I'll run some ideas by you.

You rang??

Sounds good in concept, Jim. ??

How are you doing down there, Pete?

Boil over? Now you're official, Jasbo! ????