Initial Reviews of Lab Work

The Näf-Woods Homebrew Lab offered a sampling of the first experiment. In this previous post I described the three hard cider recipes. One batch used cider, another used apple juice and a third used apple juice and rasberries. The overwhelming favorite was the plain apple juice. It had a champagne like dry taste. The cider batch had a strange sour after taste. The apple juice with rasberries was good and may get better with age, but the fruit had a lambic flavor without the sour taste. The batch only resulted in 4.5 bottles for each recipe, and the remaining bottles will be aged and sampled in July. At this point it appears another test batch will be run with apple juice, champagne yeast, corn sugar, and apple juice will be put into the secondary in place of the apple enhancer to enhance the apple flavor.