Making Cider at Home

Quite fancy one of they Apple presses, they'm not cheap though.

 

Approaching £700 for my pressing & pulping equipment.

 

Very interesting, not seen one of these before!!

Val

 

Think the press I looked at was £119, not looked at pulping stuff yet.

 

If you have access to the apples, treat yourself to one for Xmas!!!

Val

 

I will if the house sale goes through

 

These are fairly cheap
http://www.vigopresses.co.uk/Catalogue/Crushers/Pulpmaster-91100

 

Our village has a community press and a shredder for chopping apples.

 

Then you will have the cash, but no house WITH apples to squish

Jack McH

 

That would account for the glint in your eyes

 

Aye up @Zigs

Sounds like an interesting project. I don't mind a drop or two of the nectar myself

Maybe you could enlighten us as to how many apples would be needed to make it worthwhile? Also, is it imperative to use a certain type of apple? I presume the left over pulp is useful for something?

Cheers...Freddy

 

Alright Freddy, how be on?

You'll need a fair few, 50/50 mixture of cookers and eaters will do if you can't get cider apples.

Pomage is fed to pigs after pressing

 

Are we talking, maybe a bucket per gallon?

Ain't got no pigs round 'ere innit, compost then

 

According to the video link to Huw's Nursery that Ziggy posted, 20 to 30 lbs should yield about a gallon of juice. At a guess that will be about 3 average buckets.

At present I'm dumping about 15-20 lbs of pears on the compost heap every day. We're storing some but really ought to juice the rest.

 

@Freddy You should get about 70% juice by weight of apples pressed, but as apple juice is heavier than water having an approx Specific Gravity of 1.040 a gallon of juice weighs 10.4 lbs so I assume two thirds of the weight of whole apples divided by 10 will give the number of gallons of juice to be expected.(as it's a much simpler calculation and less than 2% out)

Working that in reverse gives 15lbs of the best apples and perhaps 20lbs for not so good apples for a gallon of juice that costs about £4 - £5 if buying in cartons from a supermarket.