Posted: 9/9/2024 7:21:29 PM EDT
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I’d like to make cider from this years prickly pear harvest. The juice is tart and sweet from the wild ripe fruit I harvested. I’ve brewed beer a few times but never made cider. Looking for a link to good clear instructions, I’ve googled and found a lot of content but not a good clear step-by-step how to for cider. |
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| Recipe??? When I was growing up on the farm.I.own now we moved the cider mill/press out of the tool shed,washed it off,gathered the apples from the orchard,dumped them in 55gal.drums of water,took them out and cut the bad spots off,quartered 'em and put them.in the mill grinder,(cranked by hand,my job) they fell straight down into the press"baskets" and grindings were pressed. Cider ran thru cheese cloth into a clean dishpan or stainless milk.bucket and was then poured into clean glass jugs.....ta-da cider! |
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Originally Posted By LittleAugieMo: Recipe??? When I was growing up on the farm.I.own now we moved the cider mill/press out of the tool shed,washed it off,gathered the apples from the orchard,dumped them in 55gal.drums of water,took them out and cut the bad spots off,quartered 'em and put them.in the mill grinder,(cranked by hand,my job) they fell straight down into the press"baskets" and grindings were pressed. Cider ran thru cheese cloth into a clean dishpan or stainless milk.bucket and was then poured into clean glass jugs.....ta-da cider! Ummm… That’s not cider. |
Asa Phelps has died.
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Originally Posted By FightingHellfish: I’d like to make cider from this years prickly pear harvest. The juice is tart and sweet from the wild ripe fruit I harvested. I’ve brewed beer a few times but never made cider. Looking for a link to good clear instructions, I’ve googled and found a lot of content but not a good clear step-by-step how to for cider. 4 gallons of apple juice Champagne yeast Backsweeten with your favorite tasting apple juice when you bottle or keg it, and add the thing that kills yeast activity so it doesn't eat all the new sugar. Add your own flavors and spices. |