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Making Cider

Ding Dong · 2011-11-30 15:39:54

I have a budding orchard and in a few years will have excess fruit etc. One idea to use up this excess would be to use the apples in a cider press which can be gotten fairly cheaply these days. Now, my apple tress are a mixture of eating and desert apples. Just wondering, can you make cider with any apples (albeit, not top…

30-11-2011 3:39pm

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Ding Dong

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I have a budding orchard and in a few years will have excess fruit etc. One idea to use up this excess would be to use the apples in a cider press which can be gotten fairly cheaply these days. Now, my apple tress are a mixture of eating and desert apples. Just wondering, can you make cider with any apples (albeit, not top finished cider) or do u have to use specialist cider apples?

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#2 30-11-2011 7:43pm

johngalway

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These people may be of help!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1353

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#3 30-11-2011 11:24pm

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johngalway wrote: »

These people may be of help!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1353

just submitted a post there linking this one, nice to ask friends over once in a while.

what else would a smallholder do with all your spare apples, there is a limit to the amount of apple tarts one can eat

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#4 30-11-2011 11:38pm

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The man to talk to is David Llewellyn. He runs Llewellyn Orchard Produce in Lusk, north Co. Dublin, makes great cider and teaches cider-making occasionally.

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