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Lots of apples......how do you make cider?
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We have a garden full of cooking and eating apples..........much more than we can eat, cook and freeze!
We have given lots away but as my husband loves cider and the windfalls are piling up we are hoping someone can pass on an idiot proof way to make some cider.
Thanks in advance.
We have given lots away but as my husband loves cider and the windfalls are piling up we are hoping someone can pass on an idiot proof way to make some cider.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi KaKa
MY DH makes cider. Sorry, I don't know much about it, I only help with the apple processing part.
He has a great book which is less than £5 at Amazon, called Real Cider Making On a Small Scale. Might help?0 -
You start with cider apples.....0
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This article might be of use http://gardenspace.newarchaeology.com/make_cider.php0
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PasturesNew wrote: »You start with cider apples.....
ah .......but that's only if you come from Zummerzet - you know, where the cider apples grow
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Can also make some apple wine along with your cider! Some recipes:
http://www.beersunlimited.co.uk/cidapp.htmlI'm mad!!!! :rotfl::jand celebrating everyday every year!!!0 -
Used to make apple juice & cider from own apples and windfalls. Key is sterilising everything! Well, not quite everything - but certainly all equipment / containers once the apples have been pressed.
The hardest part is pressing out the juice effectively. It's a lot of work. The pips can make the juice bitter, so if you can be bothered, remove them...
The other tricky bit - as with all home brewing - is the fermenting temperature.
This site has good info: http://www.whyteshomewineequipment.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=107&gclid=CMalqdzjg48CFQcrlAodQDKWuA
Good luck! Suggestion: juice the different varieties of apples separately and then blend the juices to make nicest tasting juice before setting up to make cider.Still waiting for Dyson to bring out a ride-on hoover...Memberships:
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If you live anywhere near South East London our local allotments (One Tree Hill, Honor Oak Park) are putting on an Apple Pressing Day this coming Saturday from 1 til 5. Demonstrations on cider making/apple juice making with plenty for sale from last year.
If not you can check out this website for Apple Day events :
http://www.commonground.org.uk/appleday/a-events.html
you may find something near you this month.
Valerie0 -
Just finished making 16 gallons of cider (we upped production this year with bigger kit).
Simple principle for our cidermaking.
1) Get a good mixture of eaters, cookers and some crabs
2) Crush them (food processor, mincer, spade in a stout wooden box, custom crusher depending on scale of production)
3) Press them. We had a little 2 litre press which was good but slow, now got a big one which is great but expensive
4) Check Specific Gravity (you need a hygrometer for this, easier than it sounds). Get the cider between 1040 and 1060 for lowish alcohol that'll keep well, stick some sugar syrup in to sweeten if needed.
5) Add some decent yeast (ideally not brewers or bakers but good wine yeast)
6) Ferment in glass demijohns / 5 gallon fermenters under airlocks until it clears.
Steps 2 and 3 could be done in a juicer if you've got one, but it takes a while and needs emptying quite regularly.
Hope that helps!0 -
Made quite a bit in the past, see if you can borrow a cider press locally, if you can't, don't bother. Or if your OH is good with diy, see if he can make one. No press and its a PITA.
We crushed apples in a heavy bucket with a sledgehammer wrapped in a plastic bag, transferred to press, then put the juice in a 5 gallon plastic fermenting bucket, added sugar to warm water till dissolved, add to juice, added champagne yeast when the liquid was the right temp (stick it on a heat pad)......... left until fermented out.
Drink and depending on how much sugar you put in.... either pass out or have a headache.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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