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Hard Cider: Cranberry Edition

Posted on July 2, 2013 · 2 Comments

Last week, I shared with you my go-to basic hard cider recipe.  This week, I’m sharing my favorite alternative version of this recipe, CRANBERRY!

I’ll be honest with you, I don’t like sweet hard ciders.  I’m not much of a sweet drinker in general, I don’t drink soda and I not big into candy.  I think that is why I love cranberry hard cider.  It’s more tart than your average hard cider.  (Or it has something to do with the fact that I love cranberries.  Must come from all those summers I spent growing up on Cape Cod.)

Here’s how you make an amazing cranberry hard cider.

Ingredients:

  • Four gallons of apple juice – this can be from a local farm, grocery store or from concentrate.  Just make sure it doesn’t have any preservatives in it.  (That would kill the yeast.)
  • One gallon of pure cranberry juice.  Same rules as above.
  • 1 packet of champaign yeast

 

Directions:

STEP ONE:  Sanitize your carboy. 

carboy

STEP TWO:  Pour in your four gallons of apple juice.

hard-cider

STEP THREE:  Add one gallon of cranberry juice.
cranberry

STEP FOUR:  Pitch your yeast.

yeast

STEP FIVE:  Add your airlock.

  apple-cider

STEP SIX:  Relax. relax-drinks

Keep an eye on your carboy and in about a month it should be ready to keg or bottle.  Enjoy!

What is your favorite version of hard cider? 

[Photo Credit: Cranberry Juice.]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: cranberry, hard cider

About BiteSize

Hi! I’m Jenna, but I got the nickname BiteSize in high school. I love homebrewing beer, thus BiteSize Brews. A blog focused on homebrewing, local brewery reviews and recipes. I’m lucky enough to live in the microbrewery capital of the world. I’m also a big fan of social media (chances are I’ll sprinkle a bit of it into this blog).

Comments

  1. Kelly says

    November 4, 2013 at 11:15 am

    Cool. Thanks for the easy recipe and giving me confidence to try the cranberry in my hard cider.

    Reply
    • BiteSize says

      November 16, 2013 at 10:29 am

      Let me know how it turns out!

      Reply

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