I bottled up a gallon of cider last night, this one has been brewing since the beginning of november last year (so about 2 and a half months)  which isn't that long really :)  but, this is the best tasting cider I've made so far, it has a fantastic flavour and crystal clear :)

I bottled it up last night with a bit of sugar a little sweetener, so hopefully it'll have a bit of fizz to it too, although I wanna take it to a Lan party on the weekend, so I't s probably not going to have enough time to carbonate.

 Not a bad strength either for such a nice tasting cider, clocking in at 7%

 I still have a red wine brewing, but i'm going to leave that for a good 6 months.  I also have some more bananna wine to bottle and some rosemary wine to bottle up, will have to find out what that tastes like :)

 

For those interested in the Cider Recipe, it's very very simple.. follow the brewing instructions on the Cider/Alchohol page  and just use apple juice.. that's it, not carton stuff.  real apples.  and try to use a blend of apples too, I use a blend of whatever is at hand, so the results vary.  but I try to stick a few cooking apples in there if I can't get crab apples or something with a bit of bite.

I also added some citric acid to sharpen it up a bit.  I also ensure it gets well oxygenated at the beginning whilst in the fermenting bin to give it a nice golden colour.

so bottled up 9 bottles of it, and put nice cider labels on it :) sorted.

 I have a ton of fruit left over this week so i'm thinking of making a Mixed fruit wine/cider, gonna try keep the alchohol level down to about 7% and keep it a little sweeter I think, so no additional sugars required, i'll back sweeten it with sweetener/lactose afterwards if needed, and put a bit of sugar in to carbonate.

I'm a little unsure about oranges though, I'm not convinced they will work, but might try them anyway heh.  It'll be a blend of Apples, Bananna, Plums, Peaches and maybe Oranges.  so looking forward to seeing how that one will turn out :)