r/cider

Hi cider drinkers. I'm just looking for recommendations for the better quality ciders available commercially in Australia. I know there are differences in additives and the process between mass produced and smaller breweries (are they still called breweries?), and just want to make sure I'm paying for quality and not just marketing. Obviously if it's from the bottlo it won't be as boutique as a locally made farmgate kind of product, but is there a big difference in quality from some brands to others? FAppreciate any brand suggestions. Thanks.

Edit, I'm in NSW

The store I went to told me to put charcoal in it. I used 23 litres of natural apple juice for my carboy and 8 kg of white sugar. It's black now I think because it has liquid carbon in it. He said it would be fine, never had this had this happen it's turbo yeast.

Seen as the bottom of the barrel cider, I atleast appreciate it for getting me into cider when I was younger and I don't think it tastes that bad now.

Getting married near Glacier and looking for a good local cider. The best cider I've had is D's Wicked from Washington but doesn't seem we'll be able to order that in, has anyone happened to have tried that and could recommend something comparable?

I'm not some "america bad" guy the likes of which /r/iamveryculinary makes fun of. I've been an American beer, wine, cheese, etc defender for a long time. A big believer that there're artisans making high quality products in this country, and you need only look for them.

I live in the biggest apple growing region in the US, and I cannot for love nor money find a decent domestic cider.

So I went to university in South West England, and there I developed a taste for that fragrant, brute dry, funky cider. Proper scrumpy on a hot day is to die for. I've found great cider in France as well.

When I would walk into a Devonshire pub, I'd ask for medium dry cider. When I look for cider here, I ask for "exceptionally dry", and it's still very medium for the most part. I have found some "hyperdrys" which are actually medium dry, but they lack that funk, and complex aroma. It's just very flat, somewhat sour, and lacking in that brute like aroma and depth.

Is this a process issue? Can we not grow the right apples here? I'd kill for a good American cider because I'm tired of paying 9 bucks a bottle for imported Aspall.

Hi all, has anyone in the uk had experience making cider from hedgerow apples and crab apples?

Hey, so im currently looking at a cider recepie that involves racking the cider with forrest berries after fermentation. Is it wrong to think that the sugar in the berries would restart fermentation, and wouldn't that affect the amount of sugar neede for bottle carbonation?

The recepie itself doesn't say anything about it they just recommend adding a bit of priming sugar for the carbonation. I don't want any bottlebombs going off in my apartment 😅

Hey, so ive made a few batches of cider now, just apple juice and yeast, i drank them after 2-3 months of being in the carbouy (with one rack after about a month), and they seem to make me fart a lot, not confirmed its their fault but does seem so.

Successful non farting brewers, what did you do differently please?

Do i need to be knocking them out, about 5 days before the rack to avoid this side effect? (Less in suspension, and won’t multiply). Campden then 24hrs later potassium sul (lag to avoid a geranium off flavor that can apparently happen if you dont wait).

I sometimes mix a cup with some apple juice and ai thinks yeast in suspension is waking up and eating the sugar and producing co2 making me fart?

- i sanitised everything with starsan
- no mould signs, looks and smells like cider
- only 100 percent apple juice and yeast and tiny amount of yeast nutrient, should be about 5% abv
- almost certain they didnt stall, good temp, no crazy additions, kraussen at the top to show they did kick off fermentation
- when i drink it, i pour from the carbouy into a jug, avoiding most of the sediment at rhe bottom, put it in the fridge and take cups from the jug on the same day
- i love apple juice and im pretty sure im not sorbitol intolerant, never noticed mass farting from it anyway, but i never drink 4l of apple juice ever tbf

Any help much appreciated:) hi