Recipe - Holiday Cider

5 ga Apple Juice (Gravenstein/Jon
Than blend)
6 cup Maple Syrup
2 1/3 tablespoon Whole Cloves
One half tablespoon Whole nutmeg, grated
10 4inch
3 Lemons
2 Inches ginger root, peeled
And grated
1 Pack
Cinnamon sticks
(juice and zest)
Red Star Champagne Yeast

Simmer Three fourths gallon apple juice, spices and ginger (in spice bags), syrup,
and lemon juice and zest for 45 mins. Add simmered mix to 4One fourth gallon.
Put cider in carboy. Pitch yeast and top off with more apple juice.
Ferment for 34 days. Rack to secondary and top off with more apple
juice. Prime with Three fourths cup corn sugar and bottle. Age for 30 days and
consume. Good sparkle, mildly yeasty (not careful enough with my secondary
rack ing), complex flavor, some spice in the nose, too much alcohol (my
calcs say that the alcohol content is about 15%, but it tastes much
stronger). In general, I'm pretty pleased; almost everybody who's tried it
has been pleased as well. Original Gravity: 1.100 Final Gravity: 0.998
Primary Ferment: 34 days Secondary Ferment: 22 days

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