Yearly Archive: 2012

Blergh.

Well, the cider didn’t turn out how I liked at all. I think partially from putting the mulling spices in at primary, and partially due to the yeast culture I used… it said it was a cider yeast, but everything’s…
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More cider!

Small update: Racked the big apple/pear back into (sterile) mulling spice mix. Started another with a little pomegranate juice, and some blackberry extract. Should be interesting. And thus exhausts my initial cidermaking supply. I’ll need to grab more juice. One…
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Doh.

Had to chunk the smaller batch of apple-pear cider due to nasty floaties. I’d backsweetened it in secondary with a sugar/mulling spice mix, but I used one that was already open and just dumped it in instead of boiling it…
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