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Cider XXIII
Summer Fruits and Honey Cider
Technically a melomel actually. The juice is apple and strawberry with a healthy amount of honey added. The artificial sweetener in the original drink is unfermentable and so remains after fermentation creating a sweet final product.
Batch Size: 7.5 Litres / 13.2 Pints
Target ABV: 4.5%
- Yeast: Mangrove Jacks New Cider Yeast
- Summer Fruits Drink (Aldi): 6 Litres
- Honey: 500 grams
- Lemon Juice: 0.5
- Fermentation Pressure: 10 psi
- Fermenter Starting Temperature 20.5
- Start Date: 28/07/2026
- Kegged: 06/08/2026
- Tapped: 13/08/2026
- Estimated ABV %: ~4.4
Summer fruits. Tasted very ‘berry’. Sparkling just right. I would buy this one down the pub. 4.4 ABV works for me!! Thx.
Yes, I noticed that the strawberry seem to come through a bit more than the last time I made this. I think it may be down to the increased conditioning time.