derfburg wrote:Going today to get Pears to do our own Peary. Old orchard, 80 yo trees. Anyone have a good or decent Peary recipe?
This is just off the top of my head but... pear juice and yeast? Seriously though, cider pears are the only thing harder to find than cider apples. Common perry just uses usual eating pears, which may or may not be the best for fermentation. I would try to find the bitterest, most tannic pears you can find, and ferment those with a wine or cider yeast. Adjust with acid, and wine tannin if necessary. When you're done you can sorbate and back sweeten, but then you can only carb it if you're force-carbing. Alternatively, you could use an artificial sweetner (sacharin, sucrulose) to sweeten it up a bit and then use sugar to carbonate it. It works in beers, I don't know why it wouldn't work in cider.