A recipe for "Sui-Cider" - one for Stovie!

[abominable_scouse_monster]

I'll say! If he smokes I'll send along a few of Cuba's finest for you to pass along.

I am getting a bottle or three of some serious vintage cuban rum soon if you want some btw.

 

[British Red]

Thanks for the offer but he doesn't - madly clean cut young navy pilot Fixes up Land Rovers and shoots game in his spare time too ....if only I could fix him up with my daughter

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

That's a crying shame (the smoking) but I wish him all the best

 

[georann]

Now theres an interesting recipe! Love cider but whenever I've tried brewing my own (don't have enough apples so I've tried turbo and the concentrated kits you get in a can) it ends up plenty alcoholic but not very appley. But that suicider looks something else! Ditto reskinov's comment on trading it on GIOT, it would go like hotcakes!

 

[British Red]

You can make it (and I have) using kits. After pasteurising and cooling, put in a bottle of concentrated apple juice - it really ups the "appleyness"

Not as good as the real thing ....but good

 

[Everything Mac]

I suppose I could use "store bought" scrumpy for the starter??

Cheers

 

[Gray]

Looks fantastic Red, pity we cant tempt you to come along on a couple of meets although I know your stance on that subject.

 

[British Red]

I suppose I could use "store bought" scrumpy for the starter??

Cheers

I can't see why not...never done it that way, but why wouldn't it work? So long as its a nice tasty appley cider, it should be good.

I believe Reskinov plans to try the miniature I sent him over the weekend so if you never hear from him again......

 

[resnikov]

I believe Reskinov plans to try the miniature I sent him over the weekend so if you never hear from him again......

I shall make sure all my estate and will is in order before trying

Looking forward to it, kids are going to be in bed on time tonight so I can sit down and samlpe it.

 

[alpha_centaur]

Do you think you Could use cartons of fruit juice rather than pressed apples?

 

[British Red]

a-c - you can do whatever works for you If you ferment the fruit juice wou will get the turbo cider mentioned in earlier posts. If you leave it unfermented and infuse it, then cut with spirits, you will get a drink more akin to the American "Apple Pie" moonshine

 

[georann]

Yea if you use 50/50 juice to water, add some sugar and some cider yeast you can brew turbocider, or buy a cider brew kit in a can (basically a can of super concentrated apple with the yeast and a special sachet of stuff included). They sell brew cans (and all the equipment) in Wilkinsons iirc as well as online.
ATB
Dan

 

[mudgutz]

Cool how too Red but I dont think I will be making this after only getting 1 apple off my two trees last year. The year before they had so many on the branch's were almost touching the floor.

BTW how is dry cider made? is it the type of apples used? I can drink that OK but the sweet stuff doesn't do it for me after an unfortunate incident in my youth involving 2 bottles of woodpecker and a straw

 

[British Red]

Its down to the variety of apples and the length of time fermented. Most true cider apples will ferment out dry unless sugar is added

 

[mudgutz]

Thanks Red.

 

[British Red]

No worries - you need to look at Stovies thread for the real deal - I am just small scale - wine, beer and mead is my forte

This is the real deal

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80194

 

[mudgutz]

That's a beast of a press!!! Cool thread, cheers for the link.

I used to make beer and wine myself 20 odd years ago and hope to get back into it when I find the time. I always used water from a spring in the village near me, crisp, cool and fresh but I noticed last time I passed it there's now a big sign saying ''DO NOT DRINK'' and something about a chance of salmonella? Any way Ill take my chance's as it made the drinks so much better than tap water.

Take it easy.Dave.

 

[nickliv]

I made 40 pints of turbo for new years eve. 20 litres of apple juice, juice of 3 lemons, and a kilo of brewing sugar just to be on the safe (dangerous) side. Add 1 sachet of cider yeast and away it bubbled happily for 10 days, and then. Disaster.

It was so dry it turned your face inside out, and Id rather overdone the lemon juice.

2 jars honey and 2 tbsp of bicarb later and it was pronounced to be a resounding success.

I may have had a teeny little bit of a hangover the following day, but I could at least walk further than the bathroom by about 4pm.

 

[resnikov]

Me and my wife tried the taster bottle we were very generously given by British Red and it was absolutely wonderfully. A really nice drink. Thanks again for the sample.

 

[British Red]

Glad you liked it.....hard to describe the taste isn't it?