It's Milling Time (pic heavy)

[bob_the_baker]

Having collected 3 buckets of early wind fallen Bramleys and a bucket of the early variety apples from my neighbours "wilderness" garden I felt I had enough natural produce to make a first batch of cider:
First a rough Chopping

Then into the scratter (or repurposed waste disposal unit to be more precise)

Out comes the baby food

Blessed are the cheesmakers

Putting on the pressure on

Flowing freely

The final amount and the waste (shame I don't have a pig to feed the pomace to)

Now to let nature work it's magic


Just under 3 gallons with an Original Gravity of 1040, so depending on how dry it ends up (I predict similar effect to chewing a Sloe) should be about 5.5 to 6.5% ABV. That, in my opinion, is well spent hour and a half.

With the predicted bumper crop of apples this year I am hoping to make a lot more cider and a couple of different apple wines as well.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Nice one Bob, I hope there won't be too many sore heads after the first tasting.

 

[British Red]

That's a great looking press Bob - you need to get together with Stovie of this parish!

 

[leedsbrew]

Nice work fella! My aim is to get some feral apples pressed this year!

 

[spandit]

I'm planning on using a garden shredder to scrat them first

 

[Mafro]

I made cider with just bramleys a few years back and it was very acidic. You might need to blend it with a sweeter eating apple after its fermented to make it more palatable