Hot Hard Apple Cider Recipe 445

HOT APPLE CIDER

Steps:

• Fill the filter-lined basket of a large automatic percolator with the brown sugar, cloves, allspice and cinnamon sticks. Prepare as you would coffee according to manufacturer's directions, but substitute cider for water.

HOT APPLE CIDER

Steps:

• Pour the apple cider and maple syrup into a large stainless steel saucepan.
• Place the cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice berries, orange peel and lemon peel in the center of a washed square of cheesecloth; fold up the sides of the cheesecloth to enclose the bundle, then tie it up with a length of kitchen string. Drop the spice bundle into the cider mixture.
• Place the saucepan over moderate heat for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the cider is very hot but not boiling.
• Remove the cider from the heat. Discard the spice bundle. Ladle the cider into big cups or mugs, adding a fresh cinnamon stick to each serving if desired.

HOT HARD APPLE CIDER RECIPE - (4.4/5)

Steps:

• In a large pot, add all the ingredients except for the spiced rum. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes or so. Add rum and keep warm over a low heat or pour into an insulated container to keep warm. To keep your cider potable to nondrinkers, do not add the spiced rum to the pot of cider. Instead, add 2 ounces of rum per cup afterward.

SLOW COOKER HOT SPICED APPLE CIDER (WASSAIL)

Steps:

• Pour apple cider into a 2.5-quart or larger Crock Pot or other slow cooker. Add cinnamon sticks.
• With a toothpick, poke holes all around the orange, about 1/2 inch to 1 inch apart. Carefully poke the cloves into the toothpick holes in the orange.
• Place orange into the cider in the slow cooker.
• Cook on low until hot and spiced through, about 4 hours. Ladle into mugs along with an ounce or so of rum if using. Place a cinnamon stick in each glass if desired and serve.

HARD APPLE CIDER

Steps:

• Other items you'll need: Stock pot, stirring spoon, 1 gallon glass jug, rubber stopper with hole for airlock (available from your local home-brew shop), Airlock (also available from your local home-brew shop), enough bottles to hold one gallon of your cider (screw top bottles that have already held carbonated beverages are ideal.).
• Pour about half of the cider into the stock pot and heat to 80°.
• Stir in honey and continue to stir until honey is completely dissolved.
• Remove from heat.
• Cool the cider to 75°.
• Funnel warm cider into 1 gallon glass jug.
• Add enough of remaining cider to fill jug (with 3 or 4 inches of space left at the top.).
• Add yeast.
• Place stopper and airlock on jug.
• Let the jug rest in a cool dark place for approximately a week.
• Fill screw top bottles with cider, then let sit for 2 or 3 more days in that same cool dark spot.
• Refrigerate and drink!

HARD APPLE CIDER

Steps:

• crush and dissolve campden tablets in a cup of warm water and mix well with the FRESH apple juice in your primary fermenter.
• Let stand over-night. Mix in all other ingredients except yeast making sure everything is dissolved, then sprinkle yeast over top of juice and cover with plastic sheet and ferment 3 to 5 days.
• Rack (siphon) into secondary fermenter and attach air lock.
• Rack again in 3 weeks.
• When all fermentation is finished, rack into a clean vessel and add 2 oz of white sugar and gently stir well.
• (I usually put the sugar into a bit of water and dissolve it first by boiling it in the microwave) When sugar is well mixed, bottle and age 3 months.
• This will give you a crisp, carbonated hard cider.
• * the more sugar you add, the more alcohol you will get, but the longer it will take to ferment. I would recommend from 1/2 to 1 pound per gal/4.5 l and not more than 2 lbs.