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Flashlight Enthusiast
for the past 6 months or so ive been making my own hard apple cider. i did a practice gallon run at first simple with brown sugar and apple cider. next i made a 3 gallon batch starting in November and finally bottled it a couple weeks ago. it was cider, brown sugar, maple syrup and light toast oak chips (turned out pretty amazing). now i have another gallon of cider thats been fermenting since last week. decided to mix it up and went with dark toast oak chips, vanilla, extra dark brown sugar (very strong molasses flavor) and cocoa nibs. i decided to only go a gallon on this one because im not sure how the flavors are going to go with that. next im probably going to go with a honey cider batch and another maple syrup batch. this all started from being a fan of Crispin cider. they had a maple syrup flavored cider called "the saint". however, i havent been able to find it around here for the past 2 years now and decided to try making my own. ive been very pleased with my results so far. anyone else here making their own drink?