MMBEX: MM Beer Exchange?

[RawrImAMonster]

Yea I tasted that once. It was definitely more like wine and if I recall not carbonated like commercial stuff. Maybe sparkling but not carbonated fully. But I'm sure Rex can chime in and set us straight.

I've researched it quite a bit and im really just waiting for the extra money, space and kegerator to try it. The only thing I'm unsure about is if unpasteurized non alcoholic cider like you'd buy in store or at orchard is made from cider style apples or if its made from table apples and would make a not great hard cider

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I have a really simple recipe I came up with that turns out great for a cider that tastes like something you'd buy in the store. You need a kegerator setup or something to kill the yeast with before you bottle it since you'll be adding sugar back in after fermentation. With a kegerator, that doesn't matter since you'll be storing it cold and the yeast won't be active.

Get 5 gallons of the kirkland brand apple juice from costco. Ferment 4 of them with the red star montrachet wine yeast. Transfer the fermented juice to a keg after a couple of weeks and add the 5th unfermented gallon in to sweeten the cider back up. It ends up being around 5.4% abv (after adding the unfermented juice) and tastes great.

Then, just force carbonate the cider by turning the c02 pressure up to ~30 psi and shake or roll the keg around on the floor for about 5-10 minutes. It will take some time to get a feel for how much you need to do this to get the desired carbonation, but you can always turn the pressure up and shake it more or let some of the pressure out of the keg to adjust. Once done, you turn the pressure back down to around 11 psi, wait about an hour for everything to settle, and serve.

You can have a great tasting cider ready to drink in about 2.5 weeks with this method. If you have people over a keg of this stuff will disappear quick.