{"id":7678,"date":"2005-09-17T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/17\/cider\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:40","slug":"cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/17\/cider\/","title":{"rendered":"Cider&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to <lj user=c0nsumer> and <lj user=homebrewing>&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN1647-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN1647-scaled.jpg\" border=0 height=480 width=640><\/a><br \/>Click for more&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, despite my original plans to get the hard cider started today, I actually did it last night. It (and I imagine wine) is surprisingly easy. Much easier than making beer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So what did I actually do last night? In short, I heated one gallon of cider to 100\u00b0F, stirred in a bunch of things (honey, yeast energizer, yeast nutrient, lactose, and maple syrup), dumped that cider in the carboy, added a chemical called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basf.de\/en\/produkte\/chemikalien\/anorganika\/schwefel\/kaliumdi_sorten.htm?id=V00-mN3ou7Qq-bsf31p\">potassium metabisulfite<\/a> (used to sanitize liquids) and left it to sit. Monday after I get home from work I&#8217;ll be adding the yeast, and hopefully things will begin fermenting then. Woo!<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is interested in the recipe I put together for this, it can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/beer\/hard_cider.txt\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a bit of a take-off from the recipe I originally got from <lj user=nerdtech>. It&#8217;s also likely to change&#8230; I may be replacing the orange zest with dried orange peel and adjusting some of the spices  a bit more. I&#8217;m still not sure on the spices yet, but I should have plenty of time to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re interested in seeing more of the pictures from the getting-cider-ready session, just click here <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em> or on the photo up above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to and &#8230;] Click for more&#8230; Well, despite my original plans to get the hard cider started today, I actually did it last night. It (and I imagine wine) is surprisingly easy. Much easier than making beer&#8230; So what did I actually do last night? In short, I heated one gallon of cider\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13949,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}