Jason and I (April) are very excited with our new adventure. We have started the idea of home brewing together to allow us to connect more and give us a fun activity to do together we both enjoy. Its great because we are learning so much. Jason first starting home brewing back in 2009 with a home recipe kit of an Irish stout. With being the very first try, it turned out pretty decent. we still have some to this day, and it seemed to get better with age in my opinion.
Our first time brewing together was a Hard Cider. Not exactly beer, but cider is a favorite of mine, so we started it. In 2010 we decided to put organic apple juice in the fermenting bucket mixing brown sugar and champagne yeast in as well. Jason and I actually sat the fermenting bucket with the mix in the spare closet and forgot about it for almost an entire year. (oops!) Recently, before bottling the cider, to finish we put more brown sugar, pitched another batch of champagne yeast, and acid (type has slipped our mind). We let the batch sit again in the fermenting bucket for a week. The following week we put priming sugar in the mixture and starting bottling the Cider. The Cider had to sit in the bottle two weeks to let the priming sugar mixing to allow for carbonation.
The outcome... Great! for first cider that is. I really enjoy it. We let several other family and friends try it as well and the reaction was a success!
