Instructions: Simmer 3/4 gallon apple juice, spices and ginger (in spice bags), syrup, and lemon juice and zest for 45 mins. Add simmered mix to 4-1/4 gallon.

Put cider in carboy. Pitch yeast and top off with more apple juice.

Ferment for 34 days. Rack to secondary and top off with more apple juice. Prime with 3/4 cup corn sugar and bottle. Age for 30 days and consume.

Good sparkle, mildly yeasty (not careful enough with my secondary rack- ing), complex flavor, some spice in the nose, too much alcohol (my calcs say that the alcohol content is about 15%, but it tastes much stronger).

In general, Im pretty pleased; almost everybody whos tried it has been pleased as well.

Original Gravity: 1.100
Final Gravity: 0.998
Primary Ferment: 34 days
Secondary Ferment: 22 days

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