Cider Making

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cheers, Ross.

i only did this making cider a times. i decided a few things first it gets messy. and second there is a lot of pulp in an apple. then i tried boiling then in a big oven in a big pot. (never under any circumstances use aluminum. ) basically you are making apple sauce. I made up maybe a few dozen jars of apple sauce, but i still had, a few 40 gallon barrels of apple to use up. the trees were quite abundant that year. i stopped fertilizing them after that.

anyway continuing on the saga i remember the work of crushing the apple. and decided just to do the TRY SOMETHING NEW, idea.

humans just say, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

so i continued to use the boil in the oven method. i think i set the temp to 350. but test it, and see whatever point the water in the oven gets a fair good boil. then add the apples.

always remove the top stem and the bottom flowerettte. it contains tannin, which is not so helpfull.

cooked, now what do i do? here is where you find out if your partner is ready to sell you into slavery. ask your partner for some of their new unused panty hose. if HE says NO. consider yourself in hot water. and go buy some.

hint get your patrners size and colour and the quality ones.

put it over a small tank and fill it with cool apple sauce. lifting this slowly out of the tank leaves a lot of juice. build a small hoist system in the garage, NOT IN THE KITCHEN. building a system in the kitchen might make your buddy inclined to put a noose on the hoist and ask you for a trial fitting. Yes i took the last barrel of apples to the food bank.

i just make cider with frozen apple juice now. i did not get my fellas correct colour, size, or good enough quality of panty hose. so sometimes he just flings these at me when i ask for shorts. why did i ever make cider, when making beer is easy. i think i was just due to punish myself.

good luck on your idea though.