Latest bottling of Turbo Cider ... 11.5%

One demijohn.
4.5 L of Aldi apple juice. £2.50
1 pound of sugar. 60p
One sachet of cider yeast. £1.10

Bottled it yesterday, tried it last night. Couldn't finish it. Too powerful.
It actually tastes more like a strong sweet wine, which is ok for drinking in wine glass quantity, but as a pint to be quaffed liberally I wouldn't recommend it.
One gallon of by-eck, bloody hell, oh me fkin head, for £4.20.

 

i think you should label it that and with the pic of les dawson on it

 

Pussy

 

No wonder you couldn't see the international space station....

 

I think with that lot I’d have been seeing hundred of the fekers

 

There were too many in the sky at one time to pick the right one out.

 

You need to make sure the juice is preservative free...if it has preservatives it could well stop the yeast working properly...hence the sweetness.
If you're intending to do it on a regular basis it would be worth investing in a hydrometer ( saccharometer to be precise)....get the best one available.

 

Thanks. I've got most of the tackle required as we, about 6 or more blokes in the village, make our own proper cider from real apples in the autumn.
In the absence of apples I occasionally revert to turbo cider just for a lark.
I added a pound of sugar deliberately to push up the abv level but even I was surprised at the end result.
As far as I know the juice doesn't have any extras in it, it says 100% concentrate, but as I've thrown away the cartons I don't remember if there were any preservatives. However I think the yeast has worked ok, 11.5% would suggest it has.
Even with proper apple cider I still do not know how to make the end result sweet. As you may know adding extra sugar at the start doesn't make it sweeter, it makes it stronger.
I could add some sort of artificial sweetener at the end but I don't want to. I like to do a natural process. The results are very good.