home made cider

whitser

going up to a local farmer to collect apples for our cider. farmer has cooking and eating apples. i know we want about 15% cooking and the rest eating but what weight in apples gives us a litre in juice approx? dont want do take too many rather leave them for the second batch.

oblivious

Hi

I head quotes of around 20 pound 10kg per gallon/4.4 liters

whitser

well we pressed our apples last night. tried on monday night but the frame on the press let us down,had to make a better model in work. any we pressed about 6 stone of apples and got 10 litres of juice.

oblivious

Thats some nice work whitser

whitser

there's a few little tweeks we need to do to make the process a little easier for the next batch. chopping and pulping the apples by hand is too labour intensive, so we're looking at getting some sort blender or processor to do that.

oblivious

these lads may have what you are looking for a bucket alled a pulpmaster

http://www.irishcraftbrewer.com/Community/viewtopic.php?t=1709&highlight=cider

whitser

must also say that we used a good mix of cooking,crab and eating apples. the juice was delicious. the trees we picked the apples off are on the farmers land for generations. we'll be drinking the same cider our ancestors drank:D cheers.