Whoops. Not sure what happened but a bunch of pictures I took somehow got screwed up in the camera. So, 2 pictures is all you get to see today. We had a bunch of drops that we wanted to take care of. Nowhere near the juice that we'll get later in the month but we did get 4 gallons today. Not as sweet as expected either but still good cider. Hopefully in a couple weeks we'll get lots more.
Oh, thats awesome. Ive been looking at your pressing for years now, and say every year I gotta get me one. Other than pressing them, is anything else required for the cider ingredient wise?
I remember the pics from the other site Dennis, you had the press just outside the garage door. I Always enjoy your press pics...Thanks
Unless you want to make hard cider, the only thing is keeping things clean and that includes the apples. We use tubs, like that black one and fill them with water, or water up to the top of the apples. I've seen people actually scrub the apples but most times that is not necessary but for sure they need to be rinsed. So we run the apples through the chopper, press the pulp and then run the cider through cheesecloth. That's it. If we don't want the cider to turn, then we just leave the cap a little bit loose. If freezing the cider, then of course, you leave some extra room in the jug.
We use disposable paint filters...they cling tight to the bucket and filter pretty well. We lay our apples out in a single layer on a trailer with an expanded metal deck and hose them off really well. Haven't died yet.
Neighbor also likes to use the paint filters. You don't have as much sediment when you use them but it does take longer.
