HOPPY STRAWBERRY LEMONADE Hard Cider 🍓🍋 

This sounds so refreshing and yummy! 🍋🍓

Looks so tasty for a warm summer’s day!

This sounds absolutely delicious!

I made this and am glad I took an extra couple steps. I brewed 5 gallons. It turned out very sour and bitter. I made this about a week after this video came out. After letting it sit, there was a gel that formed on the bottom. After filtering out this gel, the sourness was gone and back sweetening this is one of my favorite brews. The apple, strawberry and lemon are a great combo. Brew On!

Boom! Another one added to the list. Thx Trent!

Looks fantastic! Must give this a go some time!

Looks super refreshing!!! I need to make more ciders!!

This looks amazing!! I plan to brew this recipe this weekend, in time for Father’s Day. I can’t wait! Thank you!

I'm literally right in the middle of making this recipe!! But I made 5.5gal of it!! Gonna be drank on a camping trip coming up. Just about to throw my hops in! Kept the recipe the same just scaled up! Same yeast and all!! Cant wait!! Gonma be great! Thanks for the killer recipe!!!

Wooooo looks/sounds tasty ! I'm definitely brewing this soon, thanks for sharing! Cheers Amigo!

Pectic enzyme also helps break down the fruit. We have done a strawberry lemonade wine and we loved it. Our strawberry wine has been going for 3 months now and is about ready to bottle!

Looks like some serious Legitness!

I find lime and back sweetening with brown sugar works well with cider

My favorite variation of this, while not gluten free, is to make a light, low gravity wort with wheat and then do this entire process. Wheat flavor + apple + strawberry + lemony hops is incredible. Also a handful of lemon verbena leaves does amazing things to ciders.

you killed it Trey. As a beginner homebrewer, I love how you keep it easy and concise. From your video, I got the entire recipe and saw it in action. And you have never steered me wrong. I didn't know that you can have fruit in your first fermentation! I'm assuming that one can also put in extract for first fermentation ? Thank you!

Alright I need to say it : you're so talented man it's crazy! Storytime : i've been brewing again since march 2022 and began to find RU-vid channels like yours and ClawHammerSupply. It's so nice, clear and refreshing to watch a well thought, filmed and edited video about brewing. As a french canandian it's sometimes hard to watch a video with good info but a lack in video production. But yours checks all the boxes! Nice recipes, well done, clear and funny! You deserve to get 10 times the followers you have and more! Thanks for sharing you knowledge on brewing and keep on the work, you're killing it!

Looks super yummy!! Is there a way to do something similar to this using a ginger bug?

I only made cider once and didn't like it. Right now I have made and am drinking my Belgian Witbier (with some oats) made with hibiscus flowers put in the hopstand and T-58. It is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend it!

Ok now I want to do that instead of my planned Mojito Cider, strawberry&apple sounds like a dream of a combo, I WILL have to try it later. Awesome vid as always!

I'd love to see a rhubarb hopped cider. A local cider works near me used to make a "Hop and Stalk" cider with rhubarb and hops, it was delightful!!

I'm loving how easy this is to make...I might have to brew up a sneaky little batch soon as I have fermenter space! Or just reuse the bottle itself and ferment in it maybe! 🤔

Brushow you are the man! And you keep reading my mind. I’ve been making lots of cider lately and I’ve been playing around with making a hopped cider (specifically like your hazy hopped cider ;) ) AND I was talking about a strawberry cider with my S/O just yesterday!! And you combined the two here! My mind is blown 😂😂 loved the video I think you’re a genius especially when it comes to making a really tasty brew and then kegging it for quick and carbonated results. I love it.

I hope your move to San Diego was nice. I am still trying to get back into things after my vacation. Cheers!

Never made a cider before but this one looks too good not to give it a try! Thanks for sharing it 😊 Also to answer your question about what flavour combinations would be nice, maybe mango/lime? 🤔

peach lemonade cider

Looks like a good poolside beverage.

Looks delicious and love the Wayne's World transition! Cheers!

I plan to give this a try...I'm thinking I might add some fresh lemon zest too.....

I think Sauerkraut and pickles would be a great combo 😋 Great job Trent!

Man your production quality has been so clean and consistent, you deserve more views man. love the content, keep it up

Loved how it turned out! What is your keg carbonation process? What PSI and how many days? Loved how foamy it was

Do you think Voss Kveik would be okay as an alternative to Lutra if I ferment it pretty low (20-22C)? I know it's got a some orange esters but can't get ahold of Lutra lately! I've also bought motueka hops as a substitute for lemondrop just for fun. Look forward to fermenting this asap!

how concerned should I be about oxidization while bottling a hopped cider like this? Am I screwed if I bottle without any CO2? or will the bottle conditioning suffice for getting rid of O2?

Dry yeast doesn't need or benefit from "oxygen". It's one of the things I love about dry yeast, just pitch it and you're done. That looks so good!

First time doing a cider and I made this. I did change the recipe a bit: 1. I wanted it a bit higher ABV so I modified the recipe and added enough dextrose to bring OG to 1.092, according to brewers friend would get me ~10.7% abv. 2. I used VOSS Kveik because I didn't realize the difference. I fermented at 85 degrees f according to what the yeast likes and HOLY CRAP it almost bubbled the sanitizer right out. I had to refill the airlock, and in 3 days it completely stopped. Good thing I noticed how crazy it was going and dropped the hops in midway through. 3. SG after ferment read 0.994 bringing final ABV to about 12.8%😵. 4. I cold crashed, pasteurized at 160 f just to make sure the yeast would not react, and back sweetened with agave to bring it up to 1.005 FG before kegging. I did add some frozen strawberries and a few ice cube sized pieces of frozen squeezed lemon juice. I'm still waiting on carbonation to settle, but so far its a bit more cloudy compared to yours, has a bit of bitter lemon and hop bite, but just enough sweetness to balance out, and can hardly tell its that boozy. It almost has a Carmel apple silkiness and flavor to it.

If I wanted to do a second fermentation in a bottle to get it carbonated how much sugar would you recommend?

Sounds super refreshing, it's definitely the season to start ciders! I just started a strawberry cider this weekend using a SafCider yeast, adding NB crystalized strawberry flavoring at bottling, and going to attempt to bottle condition using some tart cherry candi syrup instead of dextrose to hopefully get a fun strawberry-cherry cider.

Great minds think alike! I'm gonna be adding some strawberries to my Lemondrop Wheat for a nice Strawberry Lemonade Wheat Beer!

Looks very good! Did the occasional stirring you do, also serve as degassing? I have made a couple ciders that people have enjoyed, but they often has a less than desirable aroma to them. Would love to do this recipe, but need to get past the aroma issues, first. Great video, as always!

But the weather isn't heating up?!.... lot's of love from down in Australia

Nice video, going to try this one! Any oxidation issues from opening the fermenter? Sláinte 🇮🇪

After how many days do you pull the fruit out?

Is there something else I can use to substitute the lemon drop hops with?

I plan on doing this next month for my birthday but I have some questions: how does cloudy/hazy unfiltered applejuice effect the result? I could get home pressed organic applejuice for a low price from a local here and would prefer to use that one over store bought. And how well does the carbonation keep after bottling the cider when it fermented for 7 days? Do I need a bottling wand in order to keep the carbonation or can I transfer it any other way? Would love to hear from you❤

This sounds delicious, Trent! Which do you prefer, this flavor or your Hazy Hopped Cider? I remember you saying you really enjoyed it.

How many days did you let it ferment for?

What is the keg you put your cider in

I made a 5 gallon batch of strawberry and lime cider for my wife a few months ago. I ended up going with 2 lbs of strawberries per pound in secondary. It turned out fantastic. I don't know if it was because I added my strawberries in secondary or if it was because the fruit ratio was higher but the color turned a brilliant pink.

How do you fill your kegs?

How did you store the yeast once the package was open?

Just starting up on brewing - inspired by your simple approach :) Could you use real lemon instead of lemondrop hops? and, if yes, in what ratio?

How do you get the cloudiness from the hops out of the final product?? Tried this but it looks like mud...

Is there any need to add campden pills to the strawberries?

To quote you….”I chose to keg it up so I can drink it faster…” no aging? Or are you drinking as soon as it’s carbonated?

lol @ gluten free

Please. PLEAE don't use Stevia to backsweeten your brew. It is vile, evil and utterly disgusting! I thought it was a good idea a few months ago but ended up dumping an entire 5 litre batch. Learn from my mistake and DON'T use Stevia!