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We will be pressing organic apples (all local organic) into cider today, and probably most nights this week. All you have to do is show up, help cut some apples, and you get fresh cider right off the press. We will be pressing till dark, or a little after. our address is 1321 N Mountain Rd...

So this year I decided to build my own cider press. I did so using white oak and a 12 ton (Harbor Freight) shop press. I also needed a grinder, so I bought a 7/8 hp stainless steel garbage disposer attached to a wash tub I got at home depot. I had everything else for the setup as we vended food...

I have 5 gallons of cider sweetened back with xylitol, was at 1.000sg, how much corn sugar should I use for bottling? (And avoid bottle bombs!) And another question... Do you let it start back up in the carboy or do you prime and bottle right away?

I've got my first batch (5 gal) of cider / apple wine just about ready to bottle. It is bone dry @ 1.000. I read on another thread somewhere to use xylitol (a non ferment-able sweetener) to sweeten it back to where I want it to be before bottling. I used fresh pressed cider (1.045) and added...

My name is Bob Karns, I live in Linglestown, Pennsylvania. I am merely a novice at brewing. My first attempts at brewing were using water kefir grains and made "proper" ginger beer. I did the research, most ginger beers are made using a mother, the mother passed down from brewer to brewer is...