Cider Making
Sparkling, still, sweet, dry, strong, or mild - make it how you like it!
Check out our variety of recipe kits, yeasts, and equipment below. If you're just getting started, the Crooked Apple® Hard Cider Starter Kit has everything you need.
Please refer to our "A Basic Overview of Making Hard Cider from Juice" document for basic and advanced cider making techniques.
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Hard Cider Making Kit - Essential Equipment Kit
From testing equipment to essential fermentation supplies The Hard Cider Starter Kit includes everything you need to begin making your first batch....
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Crooked Apple® Hard Cider Starter Kit
The most complete cidermaking starter kit ever, Crooked Apple® gives you everything you need to craft dangerously drinkable hard cider. Our orchard...
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Crooked Apple® Pom-Grenade Pomegranate Cider
Orchard-fresh cider with an explosively tart kick in the pants. Transform your standard autumn fare with the sweet snap of luscious pomegranate. Re...
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Acid Test Kit
Includes everything needed to determine the acidity of a wine must: sodium hydroxide, color indicator solution (phenolphthalein), a syringe, a glas...
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Crooked Apple® Grimhilde Small Batch Hard Cider Recipe Kit
Crafted in the heart of darkness, Grimhilde is a wicked combination of crisp apple character and the refreshing allure of sparkling hard cider. Pur...
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Cider House Select Apple Cider
A traditional hard sparkling cider that is packed full of flavor. This apple cider is crisp, light and refreshing, a perfect choice any time of the...
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Corn Sugar - Dextrose (Priming Sugar)
Corn sugar (dextrose) for priming bottle-conditioned beer or boosting gravity. A common addition to help dry out the finish in highly hopped beers ...
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3 Gallon Fermonster Siphonless Fermenter
The siphonless version of the popular FerMonster™ 3 Gallon Fermenter. Perfect for 2-3 gallon batches of beer, wine, cider, mead and even kombucha! ...
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Wyeast 4766 Cider Yeast
Wyeast 4766 Cider is a crisp dry fermenting yeast with big, fruity finish. Creates a nice balance for all types of apples, pears and other fruit o...
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White Labs WLP775 English Cider
Classic cider yeast. Ferments dry, but retains flavor from apples. Sulfur is produced during fermentation, but will disappear in first two weeks of...
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Yeast Energizer
Yeast energizer is a blend of diammonium phosphate, yeast hulls, magnesium sulphate, and vitamin B complex. Used to stimulate or restart a fermenta...
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Crooked Apple® Fuzz Cut Peach Cider
What do you get when you combine crisp, refreshing apple with sweet fuzzy peach? A mouthwatering pairing like sunshine in a bottle. Juicy, ripe pea...
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Campden Tablets of Potassium Metabisulfite
Campden Tablets are easy-to-use capsules of potassium metabisulfite; use to prevent oxidation and growth of wild yeast and bacteria in must. One ta...
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Crooked Apple® Top Hop Dry-Hopped Cider
Taking a trick from the beer brewing world, this unique cider recipe is dry-hopped to provide additional aromatics. Jarrylo hops bring aromas of ba...
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Catalyst 6.5 Gallon Tank Cover
This cover is custom designed for The Catalyst Fermentation System using thick 600D vinyl laminated canvas that blocks out 100% of UV light to ensu...
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Lalvin 71B White Wine Yeast
A rapid starting and constant fermenting semi-dry white wine yeast that will enhance fruit flavors and add fruity esters, ideal for fermenting with...
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Cider House Select Pear Cider
Bursting with pear flavor from the very first sip and deliciously easy to drink, Pear cider is a perfect companion for any day or evening event. Fe...
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Cider House Select Spiced Apple Cider
The charming warming character of Cider House Select Spiced Apple Cider is perfect for the shorter days and cooler nights. Experience the essence o...
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Crooked Apple® T-Shirt
The Crooked Apple® Hard Cider shirt was designed to respond to the needs of our Crooked Apple customers. Brewing and drinking Crooked Apple® Hard C...
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Lalvin EC-1118 Prise de Mousse Wine Yeast
Lalvin EC 1118 (AKA Prise de Mousse / Saccharomyces bayanus) Champagne yeast is a low foaming, vigorous and fast fermenter good for both reds and w...
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Red Star Cote Des Blancs
AKA Geisenheim Epernay. A low foaming slower speed fermenter with low alcohol tolerance. This strain emphasizes fruit character in both reds and wh...
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Danstar Nottingham Ale Dry Yeast
The Nottingham strain was selected for its highly flocculent (precipitating) and relatively full attenuation (transforming sugar into alcohol) prop...
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Liquid Pectic Enzyme
Pectic enzyme breaks down the pectins in fruit, which makes the crushing or pressing more efficient. It also reduces pectins hazing effect in wine,...
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Pectic Enzyme
Add to must to break down pulp and aid in the extraction of tannin. Can also abate pectin haze in wines and cider. Pectic Enzyme physically destroy...
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