This is meant as general discussion thread, so share everything related to brewing - questions, ideas, what’s fermenting etc.

As discussed in my recent post here I will pin it for about a week and do another thread in a month and we will see how it goes.

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzOPM
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    2 months ago

    Last year I didn’t make any cider. I couldn’t find apples. This year it looks better, but they are falling unripe from trees somewhere.

    I hope you didn’t have to throw out too much of the mead. I usually do experiments on really small scale (~1l).

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      2 months ago

      It was only a gallon. The disappointment is mostly that I won’t have a really weird drink this year.

      I’ve heard cider can be made with unripe apples. Might be worth a shot.

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzOPM
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        2 months ago

        It is, but juice from ripen apples has about 13% sugar content and I am not sure how much it will be with unripe ones. I don’t know how would it age in bottles - more acid and peptides, less sugar.

        Also I will find time for it in few weeks, maybe, and they will probably pe ripen.