u/OwlCreepy6562

Hello there, fellow cider lovers

I'm planning to make my next batch of cider in a few weeks, and I'm looking for some advice/feedback before I have at it. I'm planning to use the "traditional method". This method is usually associated with sparkling wines, but I've done it once before and the result was fairly decent. So far I've been using pasteurised juice and added commercial champagne yeast, but this time I want to use wild yeast, so I wanted to run it past you in case there's something about my plan that I should change.

My plan is:

- In a few weeks I'm going to acquire 25 liters of freshly pressed apple juice from a local farmer.

- I'm going to add the apple juice to a stainless steel vessel with an air lock and let the juice ferment without adding any commercial yeast.

- When the activity dies down, I'm going to make a syrup using 3 liters of the fermented cider and 600 grams of sugar.

- I'm going to add 1 dl of this syrup to 30 champagne bottles (750 ml) and transfer the cider from the steel vessel to the bottles. This equates to 20 grams of sugar per bottle, which should result in a final pressure of roughly 6 bars after secondary fermentation.

- I'm going to cap the bottles using crown caps and store them horizontally in the cellar for secondary fermentation. Probably somewhere around 4-6 months at 12 degrees celsius.

- After secondary fermentation, I'm going to place the bottles upside down in a riddling rack and slowly turn the bottles over the course of three weeks to accumulate the yeast beneath the crown caps.

- I'm then going to cold crash the cider by placing the riddling rack in a 0-5 degrees celsius room for 3-5 days.

- I'm going to use dry ice to freeze the necks of the bottles before removing the caps with a disgorging key and shoot the frozen yeast and particles that has accumulated beneath the cap out of the bottles.

- Before corking the bottles, I'm going to add 45 ml of syrup (liqueur d’expedition) to each bottle. The syrup will consist of 450 grams of sugar, 1,5 grams of campden and 2,5 grams of potassium sorbate in 1 liter of water. This makes 15 grams of sugar per liter of cider, which should result in a pretty dry (but not Death Valley dry) cider.

- Finally I'm going to let the bottles rest horizontally for three weeks in the cellar before crossing my fingers and opening a bottle to judge the result.

What do you think? My last batch of cider was made using these steps, the only difference being that I used pasteurised juice, commercial yeast (EC-1118) and more sugar in the final syrup. The result was fairly decent, but a bit bland. It tasted a bit too much like a sweet sparkling wine. This year I want to use wild yeast, and less sugar, to make it more interesting.

Do you think the same procedure will work using wild yeast?

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