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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
Upside: good chat with the neighbour about how our cat is demanding treats with menaces (neighbour thinks it's hilarious that Clawdia will accept a treat but then hiss at her) and also discovered neighbour has an apple tree with some very good apples on it, and she doesn't eat them because they don't agree with her... more apples for #cider!
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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
Made what will probably be my last trip to the park and got another 10kg or so of windfall apples. The plan is cider, of course. Still enough crabs on my crab apple tree to add in for tannin etc.

I have a bit of a plan here. I only have one carboy left, and I think I'll get more juice than it can hold by some margin. But. The "first run", ie the first pressing before you really start squeezing, is generally higher in sugar. So that's what I'll fill the carboy with, for a special high alcohol batch. Then I'll just take the rest and freeze it for topping carboys later as and when I require it. Of course in freezing one can also concentrate juice somewhat...

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
OK, that's the cider phase of the afternoon done.

I have pressed 23 or so kg of apples and crabs into 12l of juice. The yield is not so great cause you lose a bit once you discard the bad 'uns and cut out any obvious nasty bits, and the crabs also don't give as much juice as apples do.

With this I've put down two 5l carboys of juice for cider, and topped up the third with a kilo of honey and some water to make cyser.

Total labour input: about two hours to obtain the apples (foraging in the park, pick up from inlaws, harvesting our tree), and about 4 hours to process and press and clean up. Total dollar cost: zero. Satisfaction: immense.

I might have it in me to get one more batch done this year.

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Home #cider making is humming along nicely. I've got 4 one-gallon jars that I brew in. The ingredients for a 1-gallon batch costs around $6, mostly for the apple juice as the sugar is very cheap and the yeast is just the dregs of the last batch after bottling. I've got about 2.6 gallons of cider on hand, now, and more fermenting.
Store bought hard cider is around $0.18 an ounce. My cider comes in around $0.06 an ounce for raw ingredients. Bottles will make great, cheap gifts.

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