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Brewing with Apple Cider
Does anyone know how to go about formulating a recipe that uses apple cider? I know of a beer that's brewed 60/40 beer to cider, and the cider is added in the primary and fermented with the beer. my question is how do you figure the cider into a recipe so the beer doesn't end up watered down, or too strong for that matter? would you just figure it as a 3.5 gallon brew, or do you somehow have to adjust for what the cider will add?
Spiced apple pale ale: http://www.brewingkb.com/recipes/spiced … -2327.html
Nuff said.
you can figure the cider into your recipe by determining the OG of the cider. most commercial ciders are around 1045 - 1050. that is right about par with most ales. the ratio of beer to cider would totally be up to you, so play with it.
if you wanted to, you could take a gravity reading of the wort and a gravity reading of the cider and do it using math, but it would be simpler and involve less cleaning and sanitizing if you just mixed the two in your bucket (which you should be doing to aerate the wort anyhow).
just add the cider to the wort once you have transferred to the primary. you would be using the same underlying principle, just mix the cider and the wort together well before pitching. your mouthfeel may be a bit thin due to a percentage of your final product consisting of malt-free fruit juice, but it shouldn't be watery...unless you think pure hard cider is watery. and even then, a 50/50 mix should still retain an ale-related mouthfeel.
you'll never know what you like until you have tried a few batches with differing ratios. goodluck, and post any experiment notes.
thanks krausenator, i'm going to give this a shot this weekend or next, and i will certainly post the results.
I am just planning on combining 2 gallons of cider with 1 gallon 1.050 DME based beer.
Pitching some US-05 cake and seeing what happens.
Isn't that called a Braggot?
You going with any hops?
I did a Apple Melomel & the cider I used was 1.050, combined with 7-1/2# honey for a 5-1/2gal batch.
Ended up with a OG of 1.075 & an FG of .997 - 10.2% ABV, whew. Probably need to let that puppy age a bit.
No hops.
I am going for a cider with a malt edge to it.
Braggot is honey and malt.
Braggot actually intriques me more than my cider experiment.
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