Each year, during fall harvest and apple season, we get asked a lot of questions about making hard cider at home: What is the best yeast for fermenting hard cider? What difference can a yeast really make to the flavor of a hard cider? Can I use an ale strain or only wine and champagne strains? To help answer those questions, Northern Brewer team members Chip and Dan run a quick taste panel on a batch of hard cider that was split six ways and fermented with six different yeasts including three newer SafCider strains from Fermentis; Cote des Blancs from Red Star; and two ale yeasts Safale US05 and Nottingham from Lallemand. Check out our tasting notes and let us know which strains you like for hard cider in the comments below!

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00:00 Intro & Split Batch Info
02:40 Cote des Blancs (Red Star)
03:40 SafCider AS2 (Fermentis)
04:16 SafCider AC4 (Fermentis)
04:49 SafCider TF6 (Fermentis)
06:10 Nottingham (Lallemand)
07:25 Safale US05 (Fermentis)