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5.0 stars based on 1 votes
Beer Style: Sparkling Cider, Specialty Cider
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 6 gallons
Description:
1st Place Winner 2013 - Jackson County Harvest Festival - Hard Cider Category
Malted Ginger Cider is a crisp, refreshing, and naturally gluten-free hard cider that blends bright apple character with fresh ginger spice and subtle warming notes of cinnamon and clove. Built on a base of apple juice and gluten-free sorghum malt, this award-winning recipe delivers a clean fermentation, lively carbonation, and a balanced finish that highlights both fruit and spice without overpowering either. Perfect for gluten-free brewers looking to craft a unique, flavorful cider with depth and complexity.
Ingredients:
- 4 lbs Ginger (steeped for 12 - 24 hours)
- 3 Lemons (steeped with ginger for 12 - 24 hours)
- 2 lbs Sorghum Syrup (prior to boil)
- 0.5 oz Northern Brewer (30 min)
- 2 Cinnamon Sticks (30 min)
- 10 g Whole Cloves (30 min)
- 500 g Lactose (5 min) optional
- 1/2 tsp Irish Moss (5 min)
- 1 pkg SafAle S-05 Yeast
- 1 tsp Yeast Nutrient
- 4 gallons Treetop Apple Juice / Cider
- Bottle condition with 8 oz maltodextrine
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 30 days at 60 - 70 degreesSecondary Ferment: 30 - 60 days at 60 - 70 degrees
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.052Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol by Vol: 5.5%
Color SRM: 0.0
Bitterness IBU: 0.0
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 6.0 Gallons
Procedure:
Slice ginger and lemons and add to 2.25 - 2.5 gallons of water, steep for 12 - 24 hours until ginger flavor is extracted. Collect wort.
Bring wort to boil and add sorghum syrup, achieve hot break, add hops and additional ingredients according to schedule.
After flameout allow wort to steep until temperature has returned to approximately room temperature.
Add one gallon of juice to carboy, pitch yeast nutrient and add wort (straining out hops and other ingredients). Add remaining juice to achieve approximately 6+ gallons.
Aerate and pitch yeast.
Carboy may blow over, so do not top off. May need to run hose to secondary container to function as airlock.