Reddit reviews The Everything Hard Cider Book: All you need to know about making hard cider at home (Everything®)
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Redditor /u/drewbage1847 has a quite comprehensive cider book worth having on your shelf, and it even has a cranberry cider recipe! Everyone is talking process in this thread, which I find the book also covers well, so here's recipe thoughts:
It's got other fruit added to it to a dominate degree, so go frugal on the apple juice: tomorrow your mailbox is filled with weekly ads for all the grocery stores in your area, and at least one of 'em has half gallon bottles of apple juice for way, way less than anyone else. You will go there, fill your cart with 11-12 bottles of apple juice, have to make small talk with the cashier that you are making cider, and then go home and prep to ferment that juice.
This spot here is left blank because people have talked process already. The apple juice you just bought is 13.8 brix, whatever yeast you throw at it will ferment to 6.8% ABV, I like to round to 6.9% because I am a child and that number is funny, and ignore any advice on yeast nutrient because one pack of dry yeast not rehydrated is gonna work just fine.
OK, fruit additions. Fully ferment, rack to secondary if you wish, cranberry is bitter and pithy and people as it turns out hate cranberries and also they aren't actually that good because you love cranberries during thanksgiving and in cranberry juice because that stuff is actually drowning in sugar. A cranberry-only addition is good, but I would consider a cran-raspberry recipe instead (equal amounts), or get some vanilla beans to extract, or backsweeten otherwise. Use 3+ pounds cranberries you can use them to make insane color. Seriously, 3+3=6# cranberry raspberry cider glows pink-red and you've never seen anything like this commercially because no professional operation would buy so much fruit for their cider.
If you end up liking cider, keep it rolling! Cider is always on sale, the fruit addition possibilities are endless and while it can typically cost the same or more as a batch of the same volume, the time invested is somewhere between one very lazy hour (cider no fruits) to like three dedicated hours (juice pulp in your tube sucks). Cheers.
> (obligatory plug - I cover this in my cider book)
coughs - Everything Hard Cider
It's a good book! A great resource for folks looking to get into cider making and maybe go a little further than Walmart juice apfelweins.
Also this book if you have Kindle Unlimited it's free to read:
https://smile.amazon.com/Everything-Hard-Cider-Book-Everything®-ebook/dp/B00F0XW3QG
Not really, sorry... Stay away from Orange Juice. Apple or grape. If you follow the water directions for the juice and add some decent yeast, you'll be fine. I learned all I know about making apple cider from this: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00F0XW3QG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 worth getting the kindle version.
Also, theres some recipes floating around this sub, too.