Hard Apple Cider.

Although these photos aren't exactly glamorous, today I started some hard apple cider.  

I sort of made up my own recipe by watching multiple youtubes.  Search 'hard apple cider' and you'll be thoroughly overwhelmed with all different ways to create something simple. 

I used pasteurized apple cider from a local farm, wine yeast for 'fruity wines', and organic sugar.  Supposedly if you add sugar you'll get a higher alcohol content, so I of course I added sugar.  

My directions: Soak yeast to activate, warm up your cider a bit, add sugar to sterilized jug, add cider to jug, add yeast to jug, shake-shake-shake it up, add air lock and let sit in a warmish dark place.

Now I just wait till the bubbles stop coming out, do 600 more steps then possibly have tasty hard cider.  When I checked the jug after a few hours it was turning an orange-y color, according to youtube experts that means its working!

Even though this is only my first forte into brewing/fermenting and I'm only 24 hours into it, I'm already planning successful blackberry wines for this summer.