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Modern Cider: Simple Recipes to Make Your Own Ciders, Perries, Cysers, Shrubs, Fruit Wines, Vinegars, and More

Modern Cider: Simple Recipes to Make Your Own Ciders, Perries, Cysers, Shrubs, Fruit Wines, Vinegars, and More

by Emma Christensen
Modern Cider: Simple Recipes to Make Your Own Ciders, Perries, Cysers, Shrubs, Fruit Wines, Vinegars, and More
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Modern Cider: Simple Recipes to Make Your Own Ciders, Perries, Cysers, Shrubs, Fruit Wines, Vinegars, and More

Modern Cider: Simple Recipes to Make Your Own Ciders, Perries, Cysers, Shrubs, Fruit Wines, Vinegars, and More

by Emma Christensen

Overview

A fresh, appealing guide to brewing hard cider that makes everything from sourcing fruits and juices to bottling the finished cider accessible and fun. 

Homebrew guru Emma Christensen presents accessible hard cider recipes with modern flavor profiles that make for perfect refreshments across the seasons. This lushly photographed cookbook features recipes for basic ciders, traditional ciders from around the world, cider cousins like perry, and innovative ideas that take ciders to the next level with beer-brewing techniques and alternative fruits. With Christensen's simple, friendly tone and 1-gallon and 5-gallon options, this book's fresh and fizzy recipes prove that cider-brewing is truly the easiest homebrewing project--much easier than brewing beer--with delicious, fruit-forward results! So whether you're a home cook trying your hand at a batch of simple Supermarket Cider or homemade Apple Cider Vinegar, a city dweller fresh from a day of apple picking in the countryside, or a homebrewer ready to move on to the next brewing frontier with Bourbon Barrel-Aged Cider and Spiced Apple Shrub, Modern Cider is your guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781607749691
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date: 08/22/2017
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 107 MB
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About the Author

EMMA CHRISTENSEN is a food writer, homebrewer, the author of True Brews and Brew Better Beer, and a contributing writer and recipe developer for The Kitchn Cookbook. Christensen graduated from the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts, interned at Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen, had a twice-monthly syndicated weeknight-meal column with Tribune Media Services from 2008 through 2012, served as the beer reviewer for the Columbus Dispatch, and has been published in Cook's Country, Edible Columbus, and The Vegetarian Times. She is the former recipe editor for The Kitchn, and now serves as food editor and managing editor of Simply Recipes. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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introduction 

I made and bottled my inaugural cider almost six years ago while working on my first book, True Brews. Up to that point, my association with ciders had been fairly limited to the cheap variety served to shy freshmen like myself at parties in college, which tasted nearly identical to the stuff served to five-year-olds except it was fizzier and tended to make us giggly. I wasn’t sure what to expect from my homemade version, but I was fairly sure I could at least achieve giggle-status. 

But then my first cider absolutely blew me away. It was bright and effervescent, boozy but sophisticated, tart but tempered with the lingering sweetness of late-summer apples. This was definitely a cider for grown-ups, fully deserving of a pint glass and not a sippy cup. 

Perhaps even more surprising, this cider was incredibly easy to make. I picked up a gallon of apple juice at the store, added yeast and a few other ingredients from my brew kit, and left it to do its fermentation business in the corner for a few weeks. As a homebrewer, I’m used to reserving whole afternoons to making batches of beer, and as a winemaker, I’m accustomed to months of wait time before wine becomes drinkable. Compared to this, making cider felt like cheating. Delicious cheating. 

The wheels in my head started to turn. If I could make cider this good with basic store-bought juice, what could I make with actual heirloom cider apples? What about fresh juice from a local orchard? Or even (if I dared) the mass-market stuff served to five-year-olds? 

That was the beginning. This book is a map of where I’ve traveled in the years since.

Table of Contents

contents

introduction // 1 

turning apples into juice // 7 
setting up your cider house // 23 
turning juice into cider // 37 

beginner ciders // 63 
Basic Apple Cider // 64 
A Touch Sweet Cider // 66 
Supermarket Cider // 67 
Better Supermarket Cider // 69 
Farmers’ Market Cider // 70 
Old Granny Fresh-Pressed Cider // 72 
Single-Variety Fresh-Pressed Cider // 73 
Traditional Fresh-Pressed Cider // 75 

the cider family // 77 
Perry (Pear Cider) // 78 
Cyser (Honey Cider) // 80 
Vanilla Perry // 81 
Black Currant Perry // 83 
Buckwheat Cyser // 84 
Perry Cyser // 85 
Crisp Sparkling Cyser // 86 

modern ciders // 89 
Black and Blueberry Cider // 90 
Pineapple-Coconut Cider // 92 
Smoky BBQ Apple-Pear Cider // 93 
Cherry-Pomegranate Cider // 95 
Spiced Winter Cider // 96 
Ruby Red Grapefruit Cider // 99 
Cider de Jamaica (Hibiscus Cider) // 100 
Dark and Stormy Cider // 102

ciders for beer lovers // 105 
Dry-Hopped West Coast IPC: India Pale Cider // 106 
Dry-Hopped English ESC: Extra-Special Cider // 108 
Belgian Trappist-Style Cider // 109 
Belgian Wit-Perry // 111 
Berliner Cider-Weisse // 112 
Bourbon Barrel–Aged Cider // 114 
Apple Pilsner // 117 

soft ciders // 119 
Sweet Drinking Cider // 120 
Sparkling Apple Juice // 122 
Sparkling Cran-Apple Juice // 124 
Sparkling Grape-Apple Juice // 125 
Real Cider Vinegar // 127 
Apple Scrap Cider Vinegar // 128 
Spiced Apple Shrub // 131 
Dragon’s Breath Fire Cider Vinegar // 132 

apple wines // 135 
Crisp Apple Table Wine // 136 
Golden Delicious Apple Chardonnay // 139 
Snozzberry Rosé // 140 
Apple Pie Dessert Wine // 141 
Pear Champagne // 143 
Fig and Honey Dessert Cyser // 146 
Elderflower-Pear Dessert Wine // 149 

traditional ciders // 151 
Traditional Farmhouse Cider // 152 
Cheater’s Farmhouse Cider // 154 
English-Style Cider // 155 
Spanish-Style Sidra // 158 
Colonial New England–Style Cider // 160 
French-Style Cidre Doux (Sweet Cider) // 163 
Cheater’s Cidre Doux (Sweet Cider) // 164
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