Gordon Strong joins me this week to discuss making Cider, Perry and the upcoming changes to the BJCP cider style guide.
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (56:21)
- This week I welcome back Gordon Strong. Gordon Strong is the President Emeritus of the Beer Judge Certification Program, its highest rated beer judge, and author of the books Modern Homebrew Recipes and Brewing Better Beer (Books links are paid Amazon affiliate links).
- Gordon joins me to talk about making cider at home, perry and the various cider styles. We also discuss the major revision he’s working on for the 2025 BJCP Cider Style Guide.
- We start with a short discussion of some of Gordon’s activities including his revision of the cider style guidelines.
- Gordon explains that most beer brewers have the equipment on hand to easily make cider from juice, and we talk about the process for making it.
- He shares the kind of raw cider juice he prefers to work with.
- We talk about kegging and finishing the cider, as well as the option to backsweeten cider.
- Gordon introduces the major categories of cider, and we discuss a few cider styles.
- We also discuss perry, which is made from pears and how it can really be a delicious alternatives.
- Gordon discusses cider and perry made with other fruits, and we talk about a few of our favorite fruits that work well with ciders.
- We talk about using herbs and spices with cider including hopped ciders.
- Gordon introduces the new BJCP cider style guide which he’s been working on for some time, which is a major revision.
- The new guide will be released by the BJCP in early 2025 on their web site.
- Gordon shares his closing thoughts.
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