{"id":492,"date":"2023-06-24T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=492"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:58:48","slug":"mrm-kind-of-blue-berry-cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"MRM ~ Kind of Blue-Berry Cider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F492&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F492&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>6\/1\/2023<\/strong> Blueberry Cider.<br \/>\n2 96 oz Great Value apple juice<br \/>\n2 12 oz Frozen Old Orchard apple juice<br \/>\n2 lbs frozen blue berries<br \/>\n2 tsp Pectic Enzyme<br \/>\n2.5 grams Fermaid O<br \/>\nLalvin 71B yeast<br \/>\nMixed all ingredients and let it warm to 72 degrees.\u00a0 Added yeast.\u00a0 Blueberries are in a straining bag.<br \/>\n<strong>S.G. = 1.060<\/strong>\u00a0 If it goes to 1.000 will be <strong>8.04 ABV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6\/12\/2023<\/strong><br \/>\nAdded 1 1\/2 oz of American Oak Chips.\u00a0 Will take gravity on 6\/14<\/p>\n<p><strong>6\/14\/2023<\/strong><br \/>\nS.G. = 1.000\u00a0 Needs back sweetened and I think it&#8217;s ready to go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6\/20\/2023<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna &#8220;Jack&#8221; this batch.\u00a0 I had almost a gallon and a half of cider.\u00a0 Blueberry really came through and it was dry so before freezing I added 1 cup of brown sugar to the batch.\u00a0 The first run is in the freezer right now and I&#8217;ll melt it tonight.\u00a0 Then back in for a second run of freezing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6\/23\/2023<\/strong><br \/>\nI did 2 runs in the freezer and came out with a little over 1 quart of product.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very sweet, alcoholic flavored.\u00a0 The blueberry&#8217;s really shine on this.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing that it&#8217;s about <strong>60 proof<\/strong>.\u00a0 With a starting ABV at 8.04 then the first jack would get it to 16% then second jack would get it to about 32% ABV.\u00a0 Needs aging time in the bottle though and labels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\/1\/2023 Blueberry Cider. 2 96 oz Great Value apple juice 2 12 oz Frozen Old Orchard apple juice 2 lbs frozen blue berries 2 tsp Pectic Enzyme 2.5 grams Fermaid O Lalvin 71B yeast Mixed all ingredients and let it warm to 72 degrees.\u00a0 Added yeast.\u00a0 Blueberries are in a straining bag. S.G. = 1.060\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MRM ~ Kind of Blue-Berry Cider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}