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Well it started today. Not a bad haul. Mainly cider apples of various who knows varieties. Estimate 100l worth of juice. I'll get pressing next weekend...

I've got to admit I've been struggling with motivation this year. Weekend's are busy with a young family. A new location for apples. A beautiful walled orchard. Mainly eaters. And a few pears. Collected today I'll scrat and press next weekend. Haven't really thought out a plan yet but may go...

Knocked off work a couple of hours early today. After last year's apple collecting I've got 3 or 4 nice locations with a good number of cider apple trees. One of these is a new one this year from a farmer local to me who found out I make cider and told me I can have as much as I want from his...

Posting more for info / discussion rather than asking any questions. About 4 weeks ago I kicked off 2 FVs worth of Perry. Exactly the same contents in both bins (one was slightly more full than the other). Same process - 1 campden per 5 litres. Added pectolase (and sugar - 30g per litre as...

Close examination of some of my cider in secondary (DJs with safety stoppers and carboys with airlock) is showing a film yeast on top. My reading leads me to believe this is partly due to air getting to the top of the cider. My plan is to sterilise some more DJs / Carboys. Rack the cider into...

OK. There's been a few threads where the discussion has veered off topic slightly on to the discussion of if you let a racked cider clear too long when you bottle and add some priming sugar it might not carbonate due to the yeast dying or settling to the bottom. I just thought it would be good...

I've run out of nutrient. My first tub of it was a generic nutrient 'for Cider and Apple Wine' from Love Brewing in a starter kit. I think it was pretty much only Diammonium Phosphate. I've been looking at my local supplier (who I prefer to support if at all possible). They've got Young's Yeast...

So I was in a local farm shop. They sell a few brewing bits and pieces which includes Bulldog Brews Medium and Sweet Cider Yeast sachets. How does that work then? Is it a different yeast that doesn't ferment to dry? Or added artificial sweetener in the sachet with the yeast?

Well I had planned a small press and brew day today. Neighbour said a few apples were falling from their trees. I thought it was a bit early but headed round to pick them up and give the trees a shake and take any fallers. Wasn't expecting enough apples to give me more than 5L of juice but came...

I made a batch (~50l) of cider from apples last autumn. Added campdens then a champagne / cider yeast. Fermented in fermenting buckets. Racked off to demijohns / carboys to settle. A few weeks before Christmas I bottled about 20 litres. I added about 1/2 teaspoon of caster sugar to some of the...

I know it's very early - the blossom has hardly fallen off the apple trees yet but I'm thinking about my plan for cider brewing this autumn. Last autumn was my first time making cider. It came out OK. 70/30 mix of eaters/cookers. I used Campdens to kill the natural yeast then used a Cider yeast...

Posted a few times in the Autumn when I had my first stab at Cider making. It turned out OK... I bottled 4 Demi Johns in time for Xmas and it went down well. The surprising bit was how little I got to taste once I'd given some away as Christmas presents and gifts to people who had donated...

Well not so newbie. I've posted a few times in the Cider section of this forum already before noticing the 'Introduce Yourself' section. This is my first time brewing anything (apart from 20 years ago when I was a student and did some of that awful Boots water in the top of the bag beer out of...

So my second question on this forum. My apple juice is now bubbling away nicely in some fermenting bins. I'm trying to plan ahead and make sure I'm ready for the next stage when it's time to rack the cider off. I've read around on t'internet and I'm feeling slightly overwhelmed as there are...

Hello, First post. Please go easy :) Myself and an neighbour went 'scrumping' for apples around our village. There's a place local that lets us take our apples to them and use their proper scratter and press. We came away with over 60l of juice each :mrgreen: Basically I've almost 'brimmed'...