Turbo Cider (part 1)

The Good Life - http://www.ecopunk.org.uk

This instructional video details how to make Turbo Cider from pure apple juice. I don't like the sound of my voice so you will have to make do with subtitles.

Turbo Cider is easy and quick to make. After a week you will have a fine still cider. You can let it ferment longer into a clear cider but it is not to my taste. Sometimes I rack the cider into bottles after a week (along with some of the yeast at the bottom of the demi-john) and add a little sugar for a secondary fermentation. After a further week this yields a clear sparkling cider as good as any champagne I ever drank!

The video should be quite self-explanatory. If you have any questions then fire away.

Make sure everything is washed thoroughly with steriliser otherwise you will be making vinegar rather than cider.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• turbo
• cider
• making
• fermentation
• brewing
• alcohol
• apple
• juice

[jazzer1960]

No sugar ?

[jaybee66]

@jazzer1960 - Well, let me put it like this. I used not to and got a fine sparkling cider. For my last batch I decided to increase the 1.3 or whatever it read on the hygrometer up to 1.5. A load of sugar was added and fermentation was done with champagne yeast.

Last night I had a bottle that I laid down at the beginning of July. Now, I have two names for my cider; "Head Wreck" and "Mind Melter". Last night's bottle was definitely the latter. I won't be adding sugar again, for champagne yeast!

[jaybee66]

@jaybee66 - I do add two sugar cubes when racking into bottles. That aids the carbonation.

[DevonHomeBrew]

@jaybee66 well thn thts a very good excuse but i think if u want to make a nicer cider dont use all juice go and buy a kit from a homebrew store they turn out very well but i think my farm yard cider is the best

[jaybee66]

@DevonHomeBrew - If I lived in Devon and had access to real apples then I would be using them. Unfortunately, I live in the devil's backside (Northampton Town) and would have to buy apples and not very good ones at that.

[DevonHomeBrew]

@jaybee66 no u strange man i love to make cider aswell but with real ingredients unlike u who uses apple juice and makes so called turbo cider pahhhhh you my friend are a step below me in the homebrewing

[jaybee66]

@DevonHomeBrew - Are you admitting to drinking lager? Be gone little boy!

[DevonHomeBrew]

@jaybee66 hahaha not all beer like high temps lager likes lower temps

[jaybee66]

@sjgidman1982 - I use "ASDA Smartprice Apple Juice" in the white carton with green writing. It's now 65p a litre but still cheaper than any other 100% concentrate.

[sjgidman1982]

it me not looking correctly, i went on the asda site to see how much the apple juice was u used and there are 2 in very similar container 1 is 50% and the othe is 100%