Homemade cider

[DIDO.1 22,855]

This is an early test glass, normally wouldn't drink till October. 

Nothing added at all except apple juice. Natural yeast off the apple skins. Half a teaspoon of sugar in the bottle when bottled. 

This is actually quite cloudy, it should be crystal clear. 

Why do southerners make and drink that horrible cloudy non fizzy pisss? This fizzes like champagne 

[Greyman 30,455]

Because bubbles are for girls,

[jetro 5,349]

24 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

This is an early test glass, normally wouldn't drink till October. 

Nothing added at all except apple juice. Natural yeast off the apple skins. Half a teaspoon of sugar in the bottle when bottled. 

This is actually quite cloudy, it should be crystal clear. 

Why do southerners make and drink that horrible cloudy non fizzy pisss? This fizzes like champagne 

Could you run through the recipe and process please dido, that looks like a nice drop

Atb j 

[DIDO.1 22,855]

36 minutes ago, jetro said:

Could you run through the recipe and process please dido, that looks like a nice drop

Atb j 

Will do when I get a minute

[waltjnr 7,579]

Looks the bollocks ,what sort of strength? 

[DIDO.1 22,855]

2 hours ago, waltjnr said:

Looks the bollocks ,what sort of strength? 

Not a clue, always measure it with the hydrometer (think that's what it's called) but always forget original measurements once it's finished. I know after 6 bottles I'm better at fighting and women find me irresistible 

[waltjnr 7,579]

4 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

Not a clue, always measure it with the hydrometer (think that's what it's called) but always forget original measurements once it's finished. I know after 6 bottles I'm better at fighting and women find me irresistible 

Sounds like nectar of the gods ! 

[DIDO.1 22,855]

5 hours ago, jetro said:

Could you run through the recipe and process please dido, that looks like a nice drop

Atb j 

We were once told to use 50/50 eating apples and cooking apples so that's what we aim for. We squeeze em all and put in demijohns. We tried big buckets but if something goes wrong you loose to much. 

Just put air locks on and leave. It should ferment with natural yeast and sugar from the apples. 

When it stops fermenting and bubbling simply rack off into flip top grolcsh type bottles adding half a teaspoon of sugar to each. They should have a secondary fermentation that gives em the sparkle. 

Leave till following October then get on it. 

Nothing added other than that. Simple. How the frig them carrot crunchers make that gut rot down south I don't know. 

[jetro 5,349]

17 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

We were once told to use 50/50 eating apples and cooking apples so that's what we aim for. We squeeze em all and put in demijohns. We tried big buckets but if something goes wrong you loose to much. 

Just put air locks on and leave. It should ferment with natural yeast and sugar from the apples. 

When it stops fermenting and bubbling simply rack off into flip top grolcsh type bottles adding half a teaspoon of sugar to each. They should have a secondary fermentation that gives em the sparkle. 

Leave till following October then get on it. 

Nothing added other than that. Simple. How the frig them carrot crunchers make that gut rot down south I don't know. 

Thanks dido.

I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Atb j

[shovel leaner 7,650]

On the estate I work on there are perry pears and cider apple trees . In one of the sheds is the old press which up until about 15 years ago was working. The old tractor driver / estate hand Arnold who has now sadly passed on used to make some evil stuff . He got me to try some but I told him I preferred beer , “beers for queers “ he told me . Him and his old mates used to get on it and it was hilarious to sit and listen to their stories, some true no doubt, others ....debatable. But they used to only drink it from horn cups , the proper way . 
         I don’t think it would take much to get the press working again , and I fancy ago at making my own , so I may give it a try . I would like to put a bottle or two in the beaters shed on shoot days , be a nice little touch if it was any good . 
          

 

 

[gnasher16 30,794]

Surely the fact you can see your fingers through the other side of the glass makes it drinkable....i only ever had one go at homemade beer in one of the queens establishments years ago i can still taste it now,was picking bits out my teeth for days 

I know a chap bang into all that homebrew lark he reckons its quite fulfilling drinking something you made yourself....i can get that.

 

[Greyman 30,455]

On 05/07/2020 at 21:43, shovel leaner said:

On the estate I work on there are perry pears and cider apple trees . In one of the sheds is the old press which up until about 15 years ago was working. The old tractor driver / estate hand Arnold who has now sadly passed on used to make some evil stuff . He got me to try some but I told him I preferred beer , “beers for queers “ he told me . Him and his old mates used to get on it and it was hilarious to sit and listen to their stories, some true no doubt, others ....debatable. But they used to only drink it from horn cups , the proper way . 
         I don’t think it would take much to get the press working again , and I fancy ago at making my own , so I may give it a try . I would like to put a bottle or two in the beaters shed on shoot days , be a nice little touch if it was any good . 
          

 

 

Shame to let them go to waste if you have perry pears, they don’t bare fruit until they are 11 or 12 years old so people tend not to plant them anymore, if you don’t end up making it yourself maybe worth passing on to a cider maker in return for a couple of gallons

[shovel leaner 7,650]

29 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Shame to let them go to waste if you have perry pears, they don’t bare fruit until they are 11 or 12 years old so people tend not to plant them anymore, if you don’t end up making it yourself maybe worth passing on to a cider maker in return for a couple of gallons

That’s why they say “pears are for heirs “.