Jesus Juice
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Well, as of a week ago I had been making hard cider. Now I think I’ve realized that I’ve made a whole different beast… For I tried a sip of it when I was racking it, just to see how it was coming along, and despite being extremely tasty, it made me a bit light headed.
So with racking the cider into the secondary fermenter I added spices. To the five gallons of cider which were put to ferment with two cups of honey and one cup of grade ‘b’ maple syrup I added the following:
· 11g cinnamon sticks, broken
· 3g nutmeg (one whole, crushed)
· 4g whole cloves
· 3g whole allspice
· 11g dried orange peel
Hopefully those spices will polish off the cider and make it oh-so-wonderful. We’ll just have to see… Oh, I’ve also got two photos of the spices floating up into the neck of the carboy here and here. I’m not sure which I liked more, so I just uploaded them both.
If you’d like to see the rest of the photos, they can all be seen here or you can look at the (recently updated) recipe here.