Cider from apple juice is, in fact, home-made apple wine. Drink can be made as quiet, and effervescent, self-carbonated, both with sugar, and without it.
If you decide to make such home apple cider yourself, then our recipes will certainly help you with this. Based on the above recommendations, you will undoubtedly get excellent results and a great taste of harvesting.
How to make cider from apple juice at home - recipe
Ingredients:
- apple juice - how much is available;
- granulated sugar - 200-245 g per liter of juice.
Preparation
First you need to squeeze the apple juice correctly. For this, apples should not be washed, so as not to rid them of essential yeast natural for fermentation, which are on the surface of the fruit. If the fruit is too dirty, you should wipe off the dirt with a clean cotton cloth. Now cut the fruit into several parts and let it pass through the juicer. Many relieve pre-apples from seeds with a core, but in fact, this can not be done. If the juicer does not, then you can simply grind the fruit slices in the blender's container or with the help of a meat grinder, and then squeeze the juice with gauze or with a press.
Now the juice should be sweetened. The amount of sugar can vary depending on the sweetness of the apples themselves and, accordingly, the juice of them. Initially, we do not pour all the sugar portion, but only one gram per liter. We thoroughly mix the cider base to dissolve all the sugar crystals, pour into the fermentation bottle and install a septum, or put a medical glove on the neck with a punctured needle with one finger. If during the first five days fermentation does not begin, as evidenced by the absence of air bubbles in the container with water seal or a sagging glove, we add wine yeast to the juice with sugar, taking into account the recommendations on the package.
After the first fermentation, and this happens about two weeks from the beginning, we remove the future cider from the sediment, add the rest of the sugar to taste and again put on fermentation under the septum or glove. At the end of fermentation, merge the ready cider with a hose, without touching the sediment, pour into bottles and place in a cool place for aging and storage. Ideally, it is necessary to give the cider to infuse for three to five months.
To get a carbonated drink in a plastic eggplant or a glass bottle with thick walls, pour a little sugar on the bottom and only then pour the ready cider, not reaching the neck by five centimeters. We seal the containers and place them horizontally in a cool place. Sugar, poured into the bottom, will cause additional fermentation, which will cause the release of gas, which, if necessary, will need to be lowered a little so that the bottles do not rupture. The degree of density of containers is easier to control if they are plastic, so we use glass in this case with caution.
Preparation of homemade cider from apple juice without sugar
Ingredients:
- apple juice - how much is available.
Preparation
Cider from apple juice can be made without sugar. To do this, squeeze the juice, taking into account the recommendations described above, give it a day to settle, then merge with the sediment with the help of a tube, pour into a bottle for fermentation and install a septum. After three to five weeks, after the fermentation is completed, we drain the cider from the sludge, pour it in bottles and put it on for six months to ripen. You can pre-fetch the ready cider beforehand. But here you can not do without sugar. It is necessary as in the previous case to pour its small amount into bottles with cider and seal it tightly.