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Foghorn

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 49
Location: Barcombe, E Sussex

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 2:39 pm Post subject:
I'll certainly try and post some pics if you wish - must admit I hadn't thought I would attract cider fetishists with my humble brew

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45745
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 2:41 pm Post subject:
It's just nice to see the end results of peoples chats on here.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 5:50 pm Post subject:
Can you post me a sample?

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 6:06 pm Post subject:
Madman, trust you to get first dibs

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 6:08 pm Post subject:
We could do swops.....say, Chilli seeds for cider?

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 6:32 pm Post subject:
I tried making cider. I got a gallon of cider vinegar instead, at least it was good for cooking

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 6:42 pm Post subject:
Cider vinegar is also used as a natural remedy for osteo arthritis.....A small glass drunk per day.

Foghorn

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 49
Location: Barcombe, E Sussex

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 05 10:44 pm Post subject:
Madman, I'll happily send you a sample. Email me with your address, and I'll try to sort something out.

selfsufficientish

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 364
Location: Bristol

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 05 1:41 am Post subject:

Just finished drinking my batch of cider I added a bit of ginger and some lemon in mine. Along with a load of sugar as it said in the recipe that i had. the result was a very strong warm tasting brew. In hindsight I will not add the sugar again as it was a bit too sweet. I could only drink about 4 pints of it before it got too sickly.

I cut up the apples with a plastic fish slice then mashed them with a potato masher to get the juice and it worked fine!

Guest

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 05 2:34 am Post subject:

Gertie wrote:

I'll second that - rat?

Well, the Rat is a well known cider cure. Or a loin of meat! The proteines in the meat (loin or rat) sets off the wild yeats in the apple "juice" and enhances the fermentation. So if you want to cure some meat and and make cider at the same time, put the raw meat in the cider-brew!

mastermute

Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Posts: 2

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 05 2:37 am Post subject:

Anonymous wrote:

Gertie wrote:

I'll second that - rat?

Well, the Rat is a well known cider cure. Or a loin of meat!

And I don't think a rat is used nowdays.. but i know several cidermakers that throw meat into the barrel.. and the meat is supposed to be a delicacy!

Foghorn

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 49
Location: Barcombe, E Sussex

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 05 12:02 pm Post subject:
Can someone tell me how to post a picture (please let it be nice and easy, not involving file conversion or opening an account with some picture hosting service), and I'll put up some pictures of what madman has volunteered to sample.

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 05 12:17 pm Post subject:
Hi Foghorn a lot of people as this, and the good news is, it is very simple I've added to Sean's "How to Post" thread as clear a description as I can make; anyone who can feel free to modify my post to make it clearer. Here you are Foghorn: https://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?p=34612#34612

Guest

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 05 8:42 pm Post subject:
The addition of a rat may not be an old wives tale. A West country farmer I knew used to put in a piece of beef (few ounces) into his fermentation barrels - said it added body! (literally I suppose). In one of my old (I mean old) recipe books I do have a recipe for beef beer, which again has beef added to the fermentaion barrels of beer.

Guest

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 05 8:44 pm Post subject:
The addition of a rat may not be an old wives tale. A West country farmer I knew used to put in a piece of beef (few ounces) into his fermentation barrels - said it added body! (literally I suppose). In one of my old (I mean old) recipe books I do have a recipe for beef beer, which again has beef added to the fermentaion barrels of beer.

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