home brew - would this work???

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I would just go with apple juice, sugar and yeast rather than anything special. Dissolve 1 kg of sugar in some cheap apple juice - some may not work due to chemicals added, but I can tell you for sure the cheap sainsburys one works. Start your yeast off in a cup of
warm water with a tea spoon of sugar disolved, add the sugar juice mix to a demi john and then fill the demi john 2/3 fill with apple juice. Do not fill any more than this as when it starts to ferment, it will go crazy and spill out of your airlock whilst you are asleep in your bed.

After two days or so when it has calmed down, top up with apple juice and leave it to finish fermenting and clear a little. Should take a week.

Syphon into bottles. If you have some brown 500ml / pint bottles and a capper, great, if not, use old carbonated drinks bottles. If you want a quick stock of these, buy some supermarket own brand fizzy mineral water for 15p for 2 litres. Prime the bottles with a half teaspoon of sugar for a 500ml bottle or 1 1/2 for a 2l bottle.

Leave it a week to ten days for the secondary fermentation and any last yeast to settle then drink it.

If you are opening a 2l bottle, have some one around to share it with as best not to drink 2l to yourself.

It is called turbo cider. You could fancy it up with other ingredients if you want but there is no need.