While browsing various home brew forums I stumbled across something called “Turbo Cider”. It is called Turbo Cider due to the speed and ease in which this Cider can be made. Named by the “inventor” Des Devlin (Deadlydess)
Turbo Cider Recipe:
4.5L of pure apple juice
1 6g packet of yeast – I used wine yeast
Sugar/Honey – optional
Method:
1. Sterilise Sanitize everything needed
2. Place 3L of apple juice into a demijohn
3. Place 1 packet of yeast into the demijohn
4. Give it a damn good shake
5. leave for about 36 hours to ferment. Add the other 1.5L of apple juice. If you add all the Apple Juice at once it does have a tendency to bubble up through the airlock, hence 3.5L 1st, then 1.5L later
6. leave to ferment (mine took a week, but can take longer. Need to ensure the SG is constant for 3 days, or less than 1 bubble per min in the airlock) with rubber bung and air lock in the demijohn
7. Bottle – I will be using plastic PET bottles (if you like cider with a fizz then prime as usual, like I do.l)
I used Aldi apple juice the SG was 1.046 (so that means the ABV 5.5% approx) but I wanted a slightly stronger Cider, so added about 80g of Sugar and a 2 or 3 teaspoons of honey. The SG was then 1.055 (ABV 7.5%), but this should drop slightly after I add the final 1.5L of Apple Juice in a day or so. So should end up with Cider with ABV of 7%.
After doing this one I am going to try different yeasts and different juices. Also read people add other stuff to it, i.e. cinnamon sticks
