StephenYesterday I got around to pressing apples I got from Kathy's dad three weeks ago.
Turned out to be about 32 kg of apples, which yielded 19l of juice. Probably could have got a a bit more but ... I'd spent 5 hours washing, prepping, grinding and pressing, and I had a dinner invitation, so another half hour to squeeze out maybe one more litre wasn't appealing.
It's all in a fermenter now. This batch is destined to be distilled for apple brandy. In a week or two I'm heading out foraging and it will be for cider, using feral apple trees and some crab apples I've sourced, and even a few Kingston Black apples from my own garden.
#cider
Turned out to be about 32 kg of apples, which yielded 19l of juice. Probably could have got a a bit more but ... I'd spent 5 hours washing, prepping, grinding and pressing, and I had a dinner invitation, so another half hour to squeeze out maybe one more litre wasn't appealing.
It's all in a fermenter now. This batch is destined to be distilled for apple brandy. In a week or two I'm heading out foraging and it will be for cider, using feral apple trees and some crab apples I've sourced, and even a few Kingston Black apples from my own garden.
#cider