Hello! We're David & Rachel, a couple who has given up our corporate careers to grab life by the horns and start something amazing. Join us on our journey as we follow our dreams and start our own cidery, Heartwood Ciders!🍎 (Leelanau County, Traverse City, MI). The Cidery is expected to open summer of 2025.
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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
How much Go Ferm did you add? It looked like a tablespoon but I want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. I'm in the early stages of researching how to make home made hard cider. Thanks!
@@josh-d2z hi Josh, I usually add 1.2grams of goferm per gallon of cider. The added sugar after fermentation is indeed meant for bottle carbonating the cider. The yeast will convert that sugar into CO2
Great video! Thanks for answering all the questions below. It was very helpful as I had a lot of similar questions. I live in Phoenix and the indoor temperature this time of year is between 75-80 degrees. Is this too warm or is it ok? What is the ideal temperature?
Thanks for the kind words!! We are happy to help the community :) The lower the temperature the better. Lower temps slow down fermentation and help develop a more complex cider. However, you can make cider in a vast range of temperatures. You just need to pick a yeast that can tolerate your fermentation temps. So 75-80 deg is acceptable as long as the yeast can withstand it
@@CideryFromScratch Thank you for your help! I'm planning on making my first batch of cider this weekend. I'm going to start by making 2.5 gallons in case I screw up. I have a packet of champagne yeast rated for 1-6 US gallons. Would you recommend using the whole packet or just half? And based on your answer, how much yeast nutrient should I use (it recommends 1-tsp per gallon? Thanks again...Cheers!
@@DaveH-d5b sounds like a good plan! I would follow the manufacturer recommendations and then tweak your methods as needed in future batches. For champagne yeast I usually add 1.2grams per gallon of cider and just 1gram of nutrient per gallon.
@@CideryFromScratch thank you! For bottling, can you use growlers with screw on tops or is that not recommend? I noticed you used bottle caps for yours.
Is it at all possible to back sweeten this recipe, instead of the 32 oz of apple juice, a different fruit juice.. Such as blueberry? Would that ruin the carbonation that the apple is going to create? Or perhaps its not even enough juice, (32 oz) to make a taste difference?! Either way.. Excited to be bottling my first batch of cider!
Congrats on your first batch - you can use any juice to carbonate with as long as it has sugars and doesn’t have preservatives. However, be careful though because this is not for back-sweetening. The left over yeast in your finished product is going to eat all the sugars when they are added to the bottles and left to age.
I’m not sure if our way is the right way but it seemed to work, we found how many ounces of juice we needed to get 25g of sugar per gallon of cider. This was for carbonation not for back-sweetening. Hope this helps!
It does. Just wondering what your math was to figure out. Iam making my first batch and would rather use apple juice than other sugars thanks for your time.
Our crabs yield heavy yet grow as fast as the others. I think the net apple load (total weight) is not as bad as it seems. Why not try not thinning a few and see if they keep up with the others. Our experience here (varieties golden hornet, robert's, wickson) shows they do. We are in upstate NY.
Very cool insight! Thanks for sharing, i definitely will try that, especially if it seems to be working for you guys. I also noticed that we lost quite a few of the apples to wind so maybe they have a good natural selection process
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
Thanks to a partnership with eBay, we are happy to offer a variety of swag options including stickers, hats, and shirts! If you want to support or journey, check out our website - heartwoodciders.com/shop/
We actually rented it from a farm supply store. You can also build one out of 2x4s and thick heavy duty bolts - we built one after this and it worked well, was able to stretch a 200 ft section without any issues
Hello and thanks for the comment!! On level ground we placed our posts 18ft apart, whenever we had an elevation change we put the fence post much closer together around 12ft! Bekaert and some of the other fencing companies have guides on their website to help you determine your spacing based on distance and materials :)
@@CideryFromScratch Btw, after the fermentation is done, you added apple juice. did this help with carbonizing? and is the apple cider still sweet after half year or so?
The books there are specifically about learning to Taste Cider - Tasting Cider by James, The Cider Insider by Forbes, and Modern Cider by Christensen. The two books we use most are The New CiderMakers Handbook and Cider Hard and Sweet
