Have a bunch of left over ingredients and have decided to try using them to make a caramel malted Apple cider.
----primary----
3.5 L water
1 kg wheat malt
1 kg brown sugar
9 Litres Apple juice
Nottingham yeast
2 tsp nutrient
2 tsp energizer
----secondary----
2 cinnomen sticks
2 vanilla beans
Caramel extract
.5 kg lactose
----bottling----
2/3 cup corn sugar
----steps----
So for this I make my quick "starter" using my Nottingham ale yeast in the fridge from my last cider, along with 1/8 cup of the DME and 1 tsp nutrient. While that is resting on the counter I would boil the 3.5L water and dissolve the DME and brown sugar in it.
Remove from heat and add the Apple juice (not worrying about clarity for this recipie) to cool the "wort/must" and take the gravity reading.
Throw this into primary along with the remaining nutrient and energiser, and pitch yeast. Wait for gravity to reach ~1.008 and rack to secondary, adding flavourings and lactose.
Once flavour level has been reached, rack to bottling bucket and bottle.
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My biggest question though is how much extract for a 12L(3gal) batch?
----primary----
3.5 L water
1 kg wheat malt
1 kg brown sugar
9 Litres Apple juice
Nottingham yeast
2 tsp nutrient
2 tsp energizer
----secondary----
2 cinnomen sticks
2 vanilla beans
Caramel extract
.5 kg lactose
----bottling----
2/3 cup corn sugar
----steps----
So for this I make my quick "starter" using my Nottingham ale yeast in the fridge from my last cider, along with 1/8 cup of the DME and 1 tsp nutrient. While that is resting on the counter I would boil the 3.5L water and dissolve the DME and brown sugar in it.
Remove from heat and add the Apple juice (not worrying about clarity for this recipie) to cool the "wort/must" and take the gravity reading.
Throw this into primary along with the remaining nutrient and energiser, and pitch yeast. Wait for gravity to reach ~1.008 and rack to secondary, adding flavourings and lactose.
Once flavour level has been reached, rack to bottling bucket and bottle.
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My biggest question though is how much extract for a 12L(3gal) batch?
