Apple Cider Recipe

Have you ever thought of making your own cider ready to enjoy on those summer evenings? It’s easy to make either using your own apples – or if you don’t have any then apple juice will work fine.

To make 4.5litres of apple cider you will need the following:

• 4litres of pure apple juice (either from crushing your own apples or you can make your life easier and use readymade apple juice without preservatives)
• 50-200g of sugar
• Pectalose
• Yeast nutrition
• Good cider year
• Citric acid

To make the cider, add all of the ingredients in the fermenter except for the yeast. At this point you should test the cider and see if it is acidic enough. You can increase the acidity using more citric acid to get a sharper cider or increase the sugar to sweeten it.  Either way make sure any additions are done slowly otherwise you could ruin the initial mix

Once the taste is right add the yeast, gently stirring it in.

The cider can then be left at room temperature with the airlock on the fermenter for about a week. At this point pour it in to swing top bottles through the syphon, leaving behind any sediment. If you want to get a sparkling drink add some priming sugar and leave the cider for a further week.

Then sit back, relax and enjoying your refreshing homebrew.