It's bottling time....I think

[smokinghole]

When I get home I will do a gravity test on my Graff. If interested in recipe go here: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f81/graff-malty-slightly-hopped-cider-117117/:applause:

The graff is cider with beer ingredients mixed in for body and additional flavor.

I will start cleaning my grolsch bottles tonight and whip up the priming juice for carbonation.

Should be in bottles tonight or tomorrow. Yippie! :applause:

 

[njstone]

Cool man! How long have you been brewing? I don't think I've ever had graff ... is it like hard cider?

 

[dk_fxn]

Sounds delish!

 

[twenty5]

Sounds good, can't wait to hear about the results!

 

[smokinghole]

I used to do cider when I was a highschool student. I decided to get back into cider this fall, and work into beer.

It will be like a cider with beer qualities. I couldn't tell you for sure as this is my first batch.

 

[smokinghole]

Alright I have two bottles short of a full case of grolsch bottles bottled with the Graff Cider recipe. I will know in about two-three weeks whether I did good or I blew the recipe.

Note to self: Buy Grolsch fiptops from the nearby beer store the other place had a case at least a year old. (it tasted old)

 

[smokinghole]

Okay so I busted a bottle of this stuff out. It's not properly carbed up but it tastes great. Good apple flavor with beer body and not super sweet. I need to move the cases indoors to allow them to carb up properly. The garage is too cold for the remaining yeast to eat up the priming sugar.

 

[BrandonJ]

Sounds good dude!

 

[Moro]

:thumbsup:

 

[Alwayslit]

I've got to try this......my wife would love it.

 

[smokinghole]

Well the general opinion is that this stuff is good. I will advise that if you make it try and use apple juice that does not have added asorbic acid (vitamin C). I think it makes the cider a bit more tart that it would be normally. This could be due to it being a fairly young brew. Afterall I bottled it on the 6th and it was just enough time for it to carbonate for christmas drinking.

I have another batch getting close to bottling and I used 100% juice not from concentrate with nothing added. I will compare this fresh to a couple bottles if the original brew with the added acid.