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Took the first tastes of these pear ciders that have been fermenting for a couple weeks.

Six five gallon batches each with different ingredients harvested on the homestead and dehydrated with the Bitcoin mining dehydrator (except the grapes). White clover, dandelion/burdock, henbit, wild rose/spicebush, concord grape, and plain pear with maple syrup.

I steeped the ingredients in boiling water for a few minutes and poured the tea over 10lbs of frozen chopped pears along with some additional water to get to 5 gallons. I added sugar until the starting gravity was at 10 brix.

After a couple weeks the flavors are starting to develop but the cider is still too sweet at 6 brix. I let it ferment for a couple more weeks and taste again. The wild rose spicebush pear cider already tastes like something special.

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #selfsovereignty #cider #wildforaged #craftcider #localfood #alcohol

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Dan Wedge 2y ago

Wow! What is a spice bush?

rev.hodl 2y ago

It's a common shrub on the homestead with fragrant leaves and wood. The berries ripen red with a rich allspice flavor in the fall and have a lemon peppery taste when young and green. I used the leaves and twigs for the cider. I will be harvesting some green berries soon.

wil 2y ago

Lindera benzoin ?

rev.hodl 2y ago

Yep.

Change this if you want 2y ago

👀when on sale

Matthieu 2y ago

Looks fantastic. Very interesting 👀

PalmTree 🌴 2y ago

Try a dry hopped only pears #cider aka #Perry

complexpatterns 2y ago

Now THAT is a thing of beauty!

Boatface 2y ago

Do you have more info or pictures w.r.t. a Bitcoin miner dehydrator?

rev.hodl 2y ago

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Henry 2y ago

I ferment my cider and perry in the grow tent (it's usually not too hot around cider making season) for the free CO2 🙂.

rev.hodl 2y ago

Pear cider is ready to bottle

Bottled up 4 flavors of pear cider. Wild rose and Spicebush, dandelion and burdock root, and white clover. Pears came from a neighbor's tree in his front yard and all other ingredients were wild foraged here on the homestead.

Each should be between 5 and 6 percent alcohol by volume. My favorite is the wild rose and spicebush but the most surprising is the white clover very clean refreshing summer taste but still nice and dry.

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #pearcider #cider #hardcider #foraging #wildforaged

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