Apricot Cider?

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This project was born of having ~3kg of apricots lanquishing/taking up room in my freezer. One lot had been there from last year's harvest. I already have jars of both apricot jam and sauce in the pantry and apricot wine maturing in the brewing cupboard. So... here is a try at another thing:

2 litres apricot juice/pulp (yield after freezing, defrosting and squishing through a brew bag)
treat apricot with campden and pectinase for 36hr at ~12deg *
2 litres clear pear juice
16 litres clear apple juice (Aldi)
4g wine yeast nutrient
champagne yeast

I am told pear juice naturally contains some unfermentable sugars. I'd have used more if it were cheaper. This 2L was $7. Whereas we can get apple juice for $1/L.  If this turns out to be drinkable, I'd be more willing to spend more on pear juice when we have next year's apricot crop to play with.

starting density 1.048

*1 campden tablet, 1/2t pectinase. 24hrs in a warm place- well it wasn't warm and 24hrs was during dinner prep last night.