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Start Date: 1st March 2005
| 1 | Black Rock Cider kit |
| 1kg | Glucose |
| 1 sachet (5g) | Cider Yeast (came with the kit) |
Prepared exactly as per our previous cider, and hope to get the same results. Yum!
| Date | SG | % Alcohol |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-03-01 | 1.046 | 0.00 |
| 2005-03-13 | 1.015 | 4.34 |
| 2005-04-02 | 1.000 | 6.94 (includes bottling sugar) |
Despite the confidence that we'd brewed this the same as the previous cider, we'd made a serious difference. By using glucose in the brew rather than white sugar we again got an insipid but fizzy cider.
All future ciders (and probably the ginger beers) will use raw or white sugar. The theory is that these contain unfermentable sugars which leave the drink sweet tasting.
Took about a year for us to finish this off.
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