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8% medium cider. Very dangerous.. tasty, but dangerous.

To make 5 Gallons of cider. x1 Samsons West Country cider kit x1 Nottingham yeast x3 1.5L of Fresh pressed apple juice (Sainsburys) 20g of smoked oak chips and top up with enough sugar to give a starting gravity of 1.075 So start the cider as instructed on the kit, but only add total amount of...

5L of modified samsons kit cider

It's brewing nicely now. Didn't use the champagne yeast in the end and kept with the cider yeast. Put the 1.5kg of sugar that the kit required, but replaced 3L of total water requirement with 3L of fresh pressed apple juice (no preservatives). It's currently sat in the only room in the...

I'm looking to create a cider approx 7-8% (around the same % as old rosie and henry westons) nothing higher. It's an experiment to see what I can do and how it effects the results. My ultimate goal, when it comes to the right season, is to create a proper west Country scrumpy, with a proper...

Just got myself a samsons west Country cider kit (40 pint) and have read, on the reviews, that it doesn't taste very apple'y. So, can I mod it and replace some of the sugar and water with pure apple juice (preservative free) And champagne yeast? Yes or no. Want a stronger cider than the...