Tesco "Apple Press" Turbo Cider

Tesco "Apple Press" Turbo Cider

At the time of posting this, Tesco have a special on for the Irish "Apple Press" brand apple juice. It's quite sweet and a very cloudy juice (not unlike "Copella"), and tastes great on its own or over ice. For 40 pence a litre (usually 60p), it's an obvious choice for throwing into a DJ to rustle up a turbo cider.

This will produce roughly 14 pints of homebrew at around 22p per pint.

Tesco "Apple Press" Turbo Cider Fermenting

The recipe for this batch is as follows, with an SG of 1.061 and a FG of 1.019, making a 5.5% brew:

4.5 litres of Tesco Apple "Juice Press" Juice
200g Caster Sugar
2 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp Pectolase
1 tsp Wine tannin
170g Tesco Value Honey
1/2 packet Young's Cider yeast

For this batch, I am going to leave them at room temperature for 2-3 weeks and then move the DJ's to the shed for a couple of months to age. This is a different method to my usual process, where I usually immediately bottle to carbonate, once fermentation has completed.