Suggestions for Recipes - Black Rock Cider

[K9]

I have had different suggestions as to how to brew this particular wort including: replacing the 20lt of water with apple juice; putting 5 or so peeled apples in a stocking bag within the fermenter to introduce the apple flavouring .
Has anyone come up with a dry cider recipe that works?

[grabman]

K9, the BR Cider is quite dry, I've had success using the kit with 5L pure apple juice, 1L pear juice, 750g LME & 250g DME.

Came up nice and tart, very drinkable

Grabman

[K9]

Thanks Grabman,

sounds like a reasonable solution. I'll let you know how it goes if you like

K9

[Oliver]

K9,

Here are some other thoughts.

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... .php?t=240

See my post about 6 or 7 from the top, with a link to a recipe I made with Black Rock Cider.

Cheers,

Oliver

[umop-3p|sdn]

We've made a few batches of this cider.
The winning recipe we use is
1 can Blackrock mix
1kg Dextrose
500g Honey
About 4 litres of fresh apple juice (we get the local fruito to juice some up for us).

The last batch we did seems to be a bit over carbonated though. I actually had one bottle explode on me
The FG was 1008, and wasn't dropping any more, and we used the standard sugar scoop, so I've got no idea what went wrong with that batch.

They come out quite nice. I would agree with others from here, and say they're quite dry. I wouldn't mind trying adding some non fermentable sweetner at some stage, but as it stands, we have an oversupply of ciders!