Apple Pressing

[preppingsu]

I know that some of you have presses and make your own apple juice or cider but this is a new thing for us so I thought I would share our experiences.

We were lucky to win this press back in the spring

http://www.vigopresses.co.uk/Catalogue/ ... ress-91323

We have a very large brambly apple tree and managed to acquire apples from an acquaintance of OH and from a community orchard on the public hill by us.

image.jpg (257.54 KiB) Viewed 1595 times

These are just a few of the apples and pears we collected.

First washed and quartered then crushed. Our homemade crusher - a bucket and a block of wood with plenty of muscle!

image.jpg (228.94 KiB) Viewed 1595 times

We fixed the press to the kitchen table and the juice container was placed on a chair.

image.jpg (220.91 KiB) Viewed 1595 times

Added the crushed apple, then all the bits ready to press and off we went.

image.jpg (247.41 KiB) Viewed 1595 times

image.jpg (262.2 KiB) Viewed 1595 times

We worked for approx 4 hours and made approx 25 litres of juice.


The juice will be stood for a couple of days to let then sediment settle and then we will decant into bottles.
We will pasteurise so the juice will keep for longer.

Apologies if the photos are large - I'm posting from the iPad and it has a nasty habit of doing that!

[tigs]

put it into an air tight barrel and leave it for 4 weeks to ferment you have cider and will last as long as it takes to drink

[pseudonym]

Thanks for sharing. Keep us updated please.

[ForgeCorvus]

put it into an air tight barrel and leave it for 4 weeks to ferment you have cider and will last as long as it takes to drink

Air-tight except for a bubble-lock...... Unless you like cleaning half femented apple juice off the entire room BTDT

[Yorkshire Andy]

put it into an air tight barrel and leave it for 4 weeks to ferment you have cider and will last as long as it takes to drink

Air-tight except for a bubble-lock...... Unless you like cleaning half femented apple juice off the entire room BTDT

Then rack into a pressure keg




http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/aca ... l8QyNI3tLc


http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Apple-Cider

http://www.ciderworkshop.com/howtomake.html

[Oldarborman]

Nice can't beat real cider mmmmmmmmmm

[vassili]

You can't go wrong with the Vigo press, they are expensive but will last a lifetime. We are about to get one of the biggies with boards and cloth, 36 ltr I think? We planted an orchard with 46 Apple trees mainly juicers, 12 pear varieties and 8 plum varieties with the intention of producing all our own bottled juices and a bit to sell.