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HARD CIDER
Hard cider was once the drink of choice in early America.  Today, sweet cider is enjoyed at harvest time and the hard stuff is making a comeback. The secret to making sweet or hard cider is the blending of apples at pressing time. A balanced blend of sweet and tart apples is needed. Hard or sweet, it's another great activity to enjoy at home. Unfortunately for the home cider and apple wine maker, the addition of stabilizers to fresh pressed apple cider is becoming common. This is being done to extend the products shelf life. Cider which has been treated in this way will spoil before it ferments.   RECIPE FOR MAKING HARD CIDER IS HERE
CIDER MAKING BOOKS

CIDER SWEET & HARD-$14.95-
Discover the pleasure of making and drinking fresh cider with this complete, guide to sweet or hard cider. 216 pages by Proulx and Nichols .

MAKING THE BEST APPLE CIDER-$3.95-
Instructions, recipes for sweet or hard cider. 32 pages by A. Proulx .

HARD CIDER EQUIPMENT
FIVE gl CIDER MAKING EQUIPMENT $89.95-
Complete equipment package for making 5 gallons of your favorite hard cider from any concentrate or fresh fruit. You get a 6.5 gallon primary fermenter with air tight lid, 5 gallon glass carboy, carboy cleaning brush, rubber airlock stopper, airlock, hydrometer, racking cane, 4 foot siphon hose, bottling bucket with spigot, bottle filling wand, siphon support and shut off valve, bottle cleaning brush, sanitizing chemicals, 1 pound of bottle caps, bottle capper and Making the Best Apple Cider book. Also suited to homebrewing too! HERE'S HOW TO MAKE HARD CIDER

1 gl FRUIT WINERY EQUIPMENT-$34.95-
Are you looking for a way to use all of your backyard garden produce?  This equipment package includes 2 gl. primary fermenter, 1 gl. glass secondary fermenter, reusable fruit straining bag, stopper and air lock, siphon hose, bottle corker and corks. You also get 100 recipes for cider and wine made from fresh fruit, herbs, grapes and more with all of the chemicals needed to make any type of wine and three packets of fruit wine yeast.

WLP775 ENGLISH CIDER YEAST-$5.95-
Classic cider yeast for 5 to 10 gallons of sweet cider. Ferments dry, but retains flavor from apples. Sulfur is produced during fermentation, but will disappear in first two weeks of aging. Attenuation: 80; Flocculation: Medium; Temperature: 68-75°F
 
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