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So remember that batch of cider I started a few weeks ago?

Sorry the photos are still rotated weird.  They look fine on my computer, but as soon as I upload them something happens.

Here’s what happens next:

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The Ginseng up had a delicious peachy flavor with a tangy aftertaste. A little carbonation, but nothing too overpowering. The Jamaican Kola Champaign, on the other hand, had a strong carbonation kick. There were similar flavors between the two, but the Kola had much more carbonation. Overall good drinks, but I prefer the Ginseng Up. But I don’t like carbonation too much anyway so that is just me.

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Bottling t+24hours – Drinkable! My very inaccurate measurements place the abv at about 6.6%, it almost tastes like there’s more than that.  Still very yeasty tasting, although it actually has a good apple flavor.

26 500ml bottles of cider! 7 plain, 4 with brown sugar, and 15 pomegranate!

here’s a video of the airlock bubbling on my cider, the phone was ringing, but I was busy!

t+1h No signs of change.

t+6h No signs of bubbling, however some pressure has been gained as seen in the unlevel water in the airlock.

t+28h Blubbling every 5 mississippi. Smells like apple juice and red wine.

Cider, no not apple juice, real cider.

Ingredients:

4 gal Indian Summer brand “apple cider” *

1 wet pack Wyeast yeast strain 4766

* from the wikipedia article “Sometime after Prohibition the word cider came to mean unfiltered, unfermented apple juice.”

Total cost: $24 USD

All poured into a cleaned and santized pickle bucket, lid closed, airlock filled with water.

Turkish kool-aid?

So I bought this stuff over the summer at this ethnic grocery store in Minneapolis.  And for some reason I kept making it with 1/2 a scoop in a bottle of water, and it tasted horrible.  Well I found out it was actually supposed to be 2.5 scoops I think I just got preoccupied with trying to figure out how to measure half a scoop that when I finnaly made a funnel out of paper and got ready to scoop I forgot the 2 whole scoops.  I recently decided to give it a try again, but I looked at the directions and made it right this time.  Much better, actually tastes good like kool-aid, but this stuff comes in better flavors.  Now I need to go back and get the pineapple one.

Kudos to you if you can figure out why this post is tagged with “Sweden”

I was a little wary to try this after reading that it was created as a substitute for beer. However, the first drink tasted mostly like cola and had an aftertaste of apples. Some of my friends described it as being like the 3 course gum from Willy Wonka. First it tastes like beer, then cola, then apples. Two thumbs up.

Well what I had was barely authentic, it was a concentrate that could me mixed with wine/vodka, or in my case, water.  It was still delicious.  Close your mind and imagine everything christmas, then try to taste it.  Thats what glogg tastes like, christmas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glogg