ChiknNutz
Well-Known Member
I've been making beer for a while now (all-grain BIAB is my preference), have also made a couple batches of wine, but have never made a cider. Would like to venture into this but so far have not found just a basic best-practices HOW-TO for cider. I am just wanting to know how it differs from wine and beer-making. I did search around but didn't find what I was looking for. I'd prefer to not use a kit and go the route of piece-mealing the ingredients.
Some specific questions:
TIA.
Some specific questions:
- Do you rack to a secondary, or is that "old school" as is the case with beer these days?
- Do you boil anything?
- Should I make a small batch first, like one-gallon? I typically make 5 or 6 gallon batches of beer and have no problem doing this for cider, but wondering if it's better to start small.
- I keg my beer, any reason I cannot also keg the cider?
TIA.
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