SO I let that sit in me a few hours with no ill effects, and I had a similar sized taste of TCS. It was more like scrumpy, but it too wasn’t sweet at all. Almost like that taste you get with green apples sometimes. I thought it would be smoother based on the taste I had a day or so ago, but it seems its still fermenting in the bottle. I need to put it in a cooler location for at least a couple weeks.
\nOnce I’ve gotten a second opinion on it from Doyle, and I’ve adjusted the taste to more like we expected it to be. I still don’t know why I didn’t get a huge roiling head of activity in the must like the guides said I would, even after adding a pint of apple juice to the mix. Probably the combination of lower temperatures and the variety of yeast.
\nDoyle and I are going over to Elkhart to visit the home brew store in person, maybe I can pick up some tips there.<\/p>\n
But pleasant or not, it IS cider my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, I am stuck. I couldn’t tell if I had cider here, or stale old apple juice. So I ciphoned off a sample, only a couple ounces really, and I drank it. Oddly enough it (TOB) tasted like unsweetened pears. It wasn’t half bad, though it still had the cloudy look of Addlestone’s. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cidermaking","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDxlf-Dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}