{"id":54,"date":"2013-10-21T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-10-22T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:47:46","slug":"perry-pear-cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/perry-pear-cider\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry (Pear Cider)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the triumph of the crider (more another time, I am still catching up), I finished preparing the perry today.\u00a0 I&#8217;d left some pears to ripen with a banana to help them along.\u00a0 I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cider-making.co.uk\/cider-recipes.html\/pear-cider-recipe.html\">a recipe from cider-making.co.uk<\/a> which seems a pretty simple &#8220;shove it all in and see&#8221; sort of thing.\u00a0 The juice was squeezed once more in the juicer loaned to us by the lovely Wendy from my wife&#8217;s pattern cutting class.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52\" alt=\"500D_1688\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1688-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1688-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1688-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1688.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We used a mixture of Beurre Hardy (20%) and Doyenne du Comice (80%) pears because that is what we have in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d had about 60% of a demijohn waiting to be topped up for a few\u00a0 days.\u00a0 I&#8217;d put a campden tablet in there to keep it bacteria free.\u00a0 Campden tablets don&#8217;t kill yeast as far as I can tell, they just suppress it for a while.\u00a0 I put another tablet in today and shoved in the yeast nutrient, pectolase and yeast at the same time.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t fit an airlock this time because I think I read somewhere that you need to give the gases time to clear that are made by the tablet.\u00a0 But I could be talking nonsense.\u00a0 Anyway, if the cider is anything to go by it will go bonkers in 48 hours and I can fit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B002K6W618\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B002K6W618&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hombrebeg-21\">the bubbler<\/a> after that.\u00a0 Given I have no spare bubbler at the moment (one is in the post) I&#8217;d be a bit stuffed anyway if I wanted one.<\/p>\n<p>I actually measured the specific gravity on this one &#8211; initially 1070, I added some water and it went to 1080?!\u00a0 I gave it a good stir and it came back down.\u00a0 It was 1050 (after 400ml of water) when I chucked in the yeast.\u00a0 Here it is, ready to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-53 alignnone\" alt=\"500D_1690\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1690-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1690-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1690-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1690.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the triumph of the crider (more another time, I am still catching up), I finished preparing the perry today.\u00a0 I&#8217;d left some pears to ripen with a banana to help them along.\u00a0 I use a recipe from cider-making.co.uk which seems a pretty simple &#8220;shove it all in and see&#8221; sort of thing.\u00a0 The juice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/perry-pear-cider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry (Pear Cider)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-old-manse-2013-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}