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Cider 2020
Cider 2020
October 2020
Later than last year... I was going to give it a miss for 2020 but last minute suggestion by Andrew set things rolling.
With one still untouched barrel from last year and the first showing no signs of running out, I'm opting to make room for a few gallons in the carboys that were filled around this time last year. The temperature dropped on that batch and fermentation dragged on far too long. That wont happen this year!
We will apply SCIENCE!
Too busy getting messy to take more photos.
Glass 1. is clear with clean surface. Good, smooth slight musty hay after taste. Skipping pasteurization as it was clean and flavour is good.
2020-10-04. Put into 2 x 10 litre boxes. Un-pasteurized.
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Glass 2. Clear with a few mould spots on the surface. OK but straw musty taste... Suspect pasteurizing suppresses other flavours and pushes out the gas causing the mustyness to dominate.
2020-10-03. Put into 2 x 10 litre boxes. Pasteurized. Sampled lunchtime... Potent though slower effect, probably due to lack of disolved gas compared to the barrel cider.
Glass 2 update 2020-10-15 The Musty taste seems to be just me. Other people do not notice it unless told. All good feedback so far and I personally found the pasteurized cider seems to have improved after a day or two standing.
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Glass 3. Clear but the surface has faint but uniform white deposit over it
Put into 1 x 10 litre box and 3 x 3 litre bags. -Pasteurized.
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Glass 4. Unused.
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Glass 5. Clear with white deposit unifomly over the glass above the surface.
Put into 6 x 3 litre bags. -Pasteurized.
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Glass 6. Clear with a few mould spots on surface.
2020-10-21 Put into 3 x 5 litre boxes and 2 x 3 litre bags. -Pasteurized.
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Glass 7 One or two mould spots on surface and still just a little cloudy... Least optimistic about this one.
2020-10-21 Put into 1 x 10 litre box and 4 x 3 litre bags.-Pasteurized.
Very little waste with care. One glass filled up 2 x 10 litre boxes with a generous 2 litres left over as a sample in a 3 litre bag.
Without weighing, bags are overfilled.
The above tried for size before pasteurizing.
Lots of gas is forced out so had to vent 3 times during the process. The Remaining gas was displaced on the sloping bench before pushing the tap fully home.
An overfilled pillow guaranteed to put you to sleep!
Two overfull pasteurized boxes from Glass 2... No room so stow the taps.
Used scales scales on the second two. (Glass 1) Much better... Around 10.1 /10.2 litres is good.
2020-10-15 Glass 3 and 5 bagged.
Discussed the surface veriations on the cider in glass with Andrew and decided this is no more than you would see, if you could see inside a barrel. Sampling found no untoward flavours.
Glass 3 paler and perhaps a little dry... With a hint of Autumn mist. No! Stop that right now!
Glass 5 richer colour and sweeter.
Glass 3 into a 10 Litre bag plus three, 3 litre bags, all pasteurized plus a part bag.
Glass 5 into seven 3 litre bags, again, all pasteurized.
Glass 6 and mystery box, Glass 7 remain.
Ordered a set of Refrigerant scales to make bag filling easier. Glass on Scales, Tare, and away you go! Periodic calibration verification at work when the opportunity arises.
Now for the next batch!
Now for the next batch!
2020-10-26
Around 120 litres of Juice collected in an open topped barrel.
Wild yeast killed off using campden tablets (sodium metabisulfite) before adding cultured 'Mangrove Jack's M02 ' Cider yeast.
The video below shows cider just before this.
Transferring to the jars.
Heat pads will cut in only to prevent freezing.
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