Nostr Web Client

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

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

nostr:nevent1qqsp0lu8nscp0gjq3qkzzzvc5e0g9vezkdheqte4ksemqqvfnz79y4gpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qf5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajsxpqqqqqqzx666z8

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

09e0992d... 2y ago

nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z how long does the whole process take?

rev.hodl 2y ago

Once I have all the ingredients it's pretty quick to get everything fermenting. Took a few hours to get the 6 flavors fermenting. These have taken over a month to ferment. The biggest drag is the time it takes to clean and prep all the bottles. Takes a few hours of just scrubbing, rinsing, and sanitizing. No matter how I store the bottles they always need a thorough cleaning before bottling. Fastest I've gone from fermenting to drinking has been 3 weeks and I've waited months before bottling too.

rev.hodl 2y ago

Was sipping some cider at sunset...

Dandelion Burdock Root Pear Cider. It was a popular flavor at the Lake Satoshi Retreat. One of the last bottles and I'll probably not have the correct circumstances to make this flavor again. Going to be hard not to hang onto the last couple bottles for a special occasion. Sweet and earthy.

#cider #homebrew #permaculture #permies #homesteading #grownostr #meshtadel #selfsovereignty #pearcider

nostr:nevent1qqszfd3ej6lpw5psxnls4xzwjdgf90snyl8202qdh0hr34l78yxd4uqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qf5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajsxpqqqqqqzdkc5xx