Best place to get apple juice for cider?

Sleepy

After the advice I got on what I can do with the equipment I have, I'm looking to get into making some decent cider. Can anyone recommend the best place to get good pressed apple juice for making cider?

Am I right in guessing my best bet is to talk to someone at a farmers market about buying 5l or so from them?

Mr Benevolent

Why bother? If you Google it there's not much difference in the results between fresh apple juice hand pressed by maidens of pure virtue and shop bought concentrated stuff. It's all apple juice in the end.

Sleepy

It seems very strange to me that there'd be no difference in quality of an output when the quality of the inputs are reduced?!

loyatemu

Lidl pressed cloudy apple juice - its 1.25 a litre, Tesco do a similar product for about the same price.

Martyn1989

get both and mix em!

problemchimp

Aldi "not from concentrate" is great value. Green carton.
There is also an orchard in north county dublin (Swords I think) called Lispopple and they do beautiful pressed apple juice.

tommy2bad

there's not much difference in the results between fresh apple juice hand pressed by maidens of pure virtue and shop bought concentrated stuff.

Oh yes their is, apart altogether from the maidens, the taste and flavor is different, worse still it's different every time.
It all depends on the apples and the weather and all sorts of things. If you kill off the wild yeasts first or let them ferment the juice. For repeatable results go with the Lidl or Aldi, for flavor and real cider get real apple juice.

Sleepy

Any recommendations of a good source for "real apple juice" in the Dublin area tommy2bad?

ClimberC

Sleepy wrote: »

Any recommendations of a good source for "real apple juice" in the Dublin area tommy2bad?

I would say any health food store would have some "real" juice

tommy2bad

Sleepy wrote: »

Any recommendations of a good source for "real apple juice" in the Dublin area tommy2bad?

I'm down in KK so no help their. Try farmers markets if your felling flush, 3euro a 750ml bottle usually. If there are orchards in the area they sometimes sell in bulk.
You could buy apples at a supermarket and do all the chopping and squishing yourself TBH it's not worth it unless you can get apples free, know anyone with a few trees and windfalls?

Sleepy

I have an uncle with an orchard but not been down in years and no idea how to press myself!

rubadub

Keep an eye on the bargain alerts forum and flyers, lidl often have offers on the pressed juice.