Nothing to add to the count yet because I am still waiting for my better bottles and yeast to arrive, but will be adding soon. In the mean time, a fun fact:
~40 apples = 1 gallon of juice. That means that so far there have been 103,800 apples consumed in the making of EdWort's Apfelwein. At an average of 4oz per apple, that is 25950 pounds (11795.45 Kg) of apples. That works out to be about 617 bushels. The average US production of apples is about 250 million bushels, so we have only used .000247 % of the available apples. That's not nearly enough
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~40 apples = 1 gallon of juice. That means that so far there have been 103,800 apples consumed in the making of EdWort's Apfelwein. At an average of 4oz per apple, that is 25950 pounds (11795.45 Kg) of apples. That works out to be about 617 bushels. The average US production of apples is about 250 million bushels, so we have only used .000247 % of the available apples. That's not nearly enough
Nothing to add to the count yet because I am still waiting for my better bottles and yeast to arrive, but will be adding soon. In the mean time, a fun fact:
~40 apples = 1 gallon of juice. That means that so far there have been 103,800 apples consumed in the making of EdWort's Apfelwein. At an average of 4oz per apple, that is 25950 pounds (11795.45 Kg) of apples. That works out to be about 617 bushels. The average US production of apples is about 250 million bushels, so we have only used .000247 % of the available apples. That's not nearly enough
The math I learned is 15 pounds per gallon (about 3 gallons per bu)...
2605 X 15 = 39075 pounds of apples (~868 bu)
Still not a hefty chunk of America's annual supply, but you're right, still not enough.
Now add that to all the other non-Apfelwein cider recipes everyone on here is doing, and we might be getting a little closer... c'mon HBT-er's, we need to stake a claim to more of America's apples!
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"Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cyder." - Benjamin Franklin
The math I learned is 15 pounds per gallon (about 3 gallons per bu)...
2605 X 15 = 39075 pounds of apples (~868 bu)
Still not a hefty chunk of America's annual supply, but you're right, still not enough.
Now add that to all the other non-Apfelwein cider recipes everyone on here is doing, and we might be getting a little closer... c'mon HBT-er's, we need to stake a claim to more of America's apples!
39075 pounds of apples is 19.5 tons. Kinda puts it in perspective. Tonight I'll be cracking the first bottle from my batch.
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Primary: Double Wide Ale
Secondary: Empty
Bottled: Ratdog IPA, Mad Cat Berry Good Ale, Dog Dayz Summer Ale, Boogs Irish Cream Stout
Whew, nelly! My first batch! That is some tasty juice! Packs a punch too...
2605 + 3 gallons = 2608
And I have 6 more gallons in the works. Thanks EdWort!
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Primary 1: House Ale (yay!)
Primary 2: empty
Primary 3: empty
Primary 4: empty
Bottle Conditioning: Apfelwein
Bottle Conditioning: Apfelwein + Blueberry
Kegged/Drinking: Partigyle Brown Ale
Conditioning: New House Barley Wine
Conditioning: Ghetto canned kit bitter (Surprisingly getting better w/ age)
Just Finished: Edwort's Apfelwein
Up next: More House Ale ?!?
A side question, its been a week and the layer of bubbles have a bit of a brownish tint to them. Is this bad?
Also there is a ring of bubbles on the outside, but also little islands of them, I just don't want this to be infected or anything. I used the recipe except that I used cane sugar instead of corn sugar because I couldn't find any at Safeway...
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