[Sca-cooks] Meadshtufff

[Jones, Craig]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan li Rous [mailto:stefan at texas.net]
> Sent: Monday, 9 September 2002 2:13 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Meadshtufff
>
> Drake commented:
>
> > Wait till you've taste the final product...  Yeast has a tendency to
> > turn perfectly good apple juice into really nasty cider...
> Ummm. Yes it can. Lots of interesting colors and shapes growing in
>
> there. But then, maybe that wasn't yeast.

Probably not...

>
> Oh??? I thought apple juice and apple cider as sold in the grocery

To make proper cider you need to buy apples made from varieties of
apples that are used to make cider (usually smaller and tarter) or if
you are lucky the orchard will juice them for you as juicing and
filtering your own apples is a pain in the *ss.

I use normal pasteurised apple juice from the supermarket and add food
acids (usually malic & tartaric) to make the juice tarter...  About
30-50g all up for 5 gallons does the trick nicely.


> stores carry unpasterized, Freshly squeezed apple cider/juice. I'll
> probably try this next time instead of the frozen or bottled stuff.

I use pasteurised apple juice so I don't have to sterilize the wort.

> We went out looking at houses this afternoon. When we get to the point
>
> of looking at the insides, I think I will be looking for houses that
> aren't carpetted everywhere. So I can do some brewing with less fear
> of a major cleanup project if the bottles or fermenter explodes.

Agreed, stout spills in carpet are kinda hard to remove...

Drakey.