{"id":7728,"date":"2005-10-01T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/hard-cider-batch-two\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:41","slug":"hard-cider-batch-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/hard-cider-batch-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Cider, Batch Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 1:55pm today I pitched one vial of White Labs English Cider Yeast (WLP775) into about five and one half gallons of juice to be fermented into hard cider. This juice mixture contains the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five Gallons Yates&#8217; Apple Cider (fresh juice, for non-US people)<br \/>\nThree Fourths of One Pound of Lactose<br \/>\nOne Cup of (mostly) Dark Amber Grade B Maple Syrup<br \/>\nTwo Cups of Unfiltered Honey from Honeyflow Farm in Dryden, MI<br \/>\nFive Teaspoons of Yeast Nutrient<br \/>\nTwo and One Half Teaspoons of Yeast Energizer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, this is pretty much the same as before, except I&#8217;m not going to add spices to this batch. I figure that since cider is only available fresh this time of the year, making 10 gallons would be smart, as it should keep for a while. This way I&#8217;ll also get some variety in flavor. Hopefully it doesn&#8217;t suck. :)<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the OG of this batch was right about 1.070. I think that&#8217;s because there were less solid bits of sugar in the honey this time.<\/p>\n<p>Mmm. Now to enjoy this Boss Coffee (regular double roast one) and hope that hiking this afternoon pans out.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, it seems that I can get raw honey for $1.50\/lb from Honeyflow Farms. I think I should make some mead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1:55pm today I pitched one vial of White Labs English Cider Yeast (WLP775) into about five and one half gallons of juice to be fermented into hard cider. This juice mixture contains the following: Five Gallons Yates&#8217; Apple Cider (fresh juice, for non-US people) Three Fourths of One Pound of Lactose One Cup of\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-7728","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\/7728","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=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13901,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/13901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}