Cathy - I made apple/pear cider this fall. One of the members of the KC
Cellarmaster winemaking club has a crusher and we all brought fruit and took
home jucie. I used White Labs English Cider yeast and it took about 5 weeks
for complete fermentation...had to stop a spontaneous malo-lactic
fermentation with Lysozyme. Mine tastes a lot like commercial examples.
Pick up some cans of cider and this will give you an idea of what to expect.

Bill Frazier
Olathe, Kansas USA

"Cathy Boer" > wrote in message
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> We started our first batch of apple cider back in November - we just put
> the juice in a carboy and let it perk away... our house gets down to
> about 62 degrees at night, 70 in the day. It's still perking away -
> slowly as it's cool. Any idea just how long we'll be watching this?? And
> how does apple cider taste?
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> TIA
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