My sister and I decided we were going to make some hard apple cider to take with us to Thanksgiving at our dad’s. We started with 4 gallons of pure apple juice and added a little over a cup of brown sugar per gallon. We fermented them with champagne yeast right in their own bottles. Once they fermented down completely we added some chemicals to stop fermentation so we could add some more apple juice for bottling to increase the sweetness. We also decided to add some cherry flavor to about 1.5 gallons of the batch before bottling to see how it turned out.

Both of these taste AMAZING!

Added some custom bottle labels using some standard paper, printed at FedEx Office, and attached to the bottles with a glue stick. Personally, I think they turned out quite well.

What do you think?

JD Hard Cider

JD Cherry Cider