Make Hearty & Amazing Apple Cider With Ordinary Apple Juice

Make Hearty & Amazing Apple Cider With Ordinary Apple Juice

Good news for all backyard brewing enthusiasts, brewing your own fresh apple alcoholic drink or cider is easy using the most available apple sap in your kitchen. Yes, you heard it right, you or anyone can now create your own cider through commercial apple juices that you buy from the supermarkets and groceries.

You don’t have to own a whole orchard of apples to brew hard apple drink or cider. Fresh apple that contains no preservatives serves as good substitute for newly squeezed apple extract. Don’t worry if you only have pasteurized apple extract. You just have to strain it before using to eliminate the yeasts from the sap to obtain better alcohol level of your apple extract.

These are the easy steps in making 5 gals. (Gallons) of dry apple alcoholic drink or cider which is slowly fermented:

1. Buy five gallons of apple juices. However, if you cannot find one 5-gallon of apple juice at the groceries so you just buy several tins of it and then just bring them together later on.

2. Put all the juices inside a fermentation level to prepare it for its first phase of fermentation.

3. Put adequate quantities of white wine yeast. You are also allowed to put dry yeast or you just prepare it first to initiate fermentation by abiding the directions given on its label. You don’t have to use campden tablets to purify the juice especially if you are using the pasteurized kind of apple juice.

4. Wait for few weeks to begin the actual fermentation.

5. Remove the fermented cider from the first container and put it in another fermentation container for its second phase of brewing. Make sure that the container is air tight.

6. Always store the brewing vessel inside a cool and dry place and allow the apple juices to continue with the fermentation process. You would observe that the fermentation process is completed when bubbles don’t appear anymore.

7. Put the fermented apple cider in another container or flask it for one month.

8. Allow the fermented apple cider to age or mature for at least six months or up to 1 year.

You would probably think that this is not the most efficient way to make your own apple alcoholic drink or cider. However, if you let other people taste your product, they will definitely like it. It will taste even better if you allow the fermented apple cider to age.

There’s nothing wrong with undergoing several testing and taste tests for your hard apple drink or cider because it will help you achieve the right taste after quite some time, just like what happened to the famous Boone’s Farm Wine.

It’s possible to produce clear hard apple drink or cider without using any clearing agent. Just allow the fermented cider inside the storage room for one month allowing the unwanted sap residues to stay at the bottom of your container.

Just follow these simple and practical procedures and you’ll definitely achieve great tasting home-brewed apple alcoholic drink or cider.