I wanted to create a hard cider for Saint Patrick's Day. I waited too long so the options are now limited. My initial thoughts were to follow DayFlyer55's 5 Day Sweet Country Cider from HomeBrewTalk. I was in a rush while making dinner so I skipped the Brown Sugar and went straight for the Molasses and Sugar. I was just guessing and only decided to lookup the correct ratio now that I am writting down what I actually did. The ratio for brown sugar is 1 cup sugar to 1 Tbs Molasses. So, twice as much molasses as need. My goal is to stop the fermentation as soon as we are below 1.04. This should give us a sweet cider with 4.9% ABV. Update: It was a little too sweet. So we let the cider go another day and then put it in the lagering fridge to have the yeast stop. The final is a FG 1.034 and 5.7% ABV and 260 calories/12 oz.
| Fermentables 13 frozen concentrate Giant brand Apple Juice (~4.875 gallons) 2 lbs Dominion Sugar (~3.8 Cups) 4 oz Grandmas Molasses (~8 Tbs) Misc 2 Cinnamon Sticks Yeast Munton's Gold |  |
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