Cider Recipe: My Standard Recipe

This is my “standard” recipe with all the key steps I follow. Individual recipes follow the same general pattern and mostly vary based on ingredients added.

Based on:

• The New Cider Maker’s Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Craft Producers Hardcover
• Craft A Brew Cider Starter Kit Recipe
• Articles on the internet and lessons learned

Before you begin, you’ll want to make sure you get your brewing equipment first. You only need to do this once.

The following are the steps of the process:

1. Procure Ingredients: You need the right ingredients
2. Fermenting: Get the yeast going in the juice
3. Monitoring (for reracking): Making sure the juice is fermenting
4. Re-racking: Getting the cider off the lees and adding extra ingredients
5. Monitoring (for bottling): Waiting until fermentation is complete and the flavor is right
6. Bottling: Getting the cider into bottles
7. Waiting: Letting the cider age in the bottles
8. Drinking: Enjoying the results