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Last summer I bottled some cider. Seemed OK initially, we enjoyed many a glass of good cider during the hot days. Today I opened a bottle and first thing the missus says: this smells stuffy and stale. I didn't smell it and started drinking. Seemed OK initially until I noticed a stinging...

Today I had a cider making course run by professional cider makers in a local heirloom varieties orchard. We were allowed to collect our own apples and the were milled for us. These are the juice's specs: SG 1044, pH 3,0 and titratable acid 7 g/l. We were told spontaneous malolactic fermentation...

Couple of weeks ago I pulled the trigger on this one, made by Grifo: Lagerverkauf: Handbetriebene Obstmühle OM10 mit Edelstahltrichter, Leistung 200 kg/Std. günstig kaufen - Lagerverkauf Fischer Kellereitechnik Lahr/Baden, 274,00 € Peformance very disappointing. After a while bits and pieces...

Last couple of weeks we have been enjoying the 2020 harvest cider. Very good and appley flavour. Made with old Dutch varieties (mainly Zoete Ermgaard, Zoete Kroon) Princesse Noble (which some consider Dutch as well) and Gravensteins from a neighbour. Mangrove Jack's M05 (yes, the mead yeast)...

I cannot find any compehensive pollination tables of old varieties, especially English and French. Do they exist? And if so, where can I find them?

Found this on YouTube. Looks like it produces very small apple shreds. Do modern-day fruitmills give similar results?

Found this while surfing. Looks really simple.

As the title says: what do you mean by crab apples? Which are suitable for cider and which aren't?

A year and a half ago I had some apple juice left and no more empty fermentation vessel. So I filled a few 1.5 liter PET bottles with it and stored them in the fridge. No yeast added. Every so often I have unscrewed the lids just enough to let off the CO2. Yesterday I finished the last one. It...

I am toying with the idea to buy this apple crusher: https://www.grifomarchetti.eu/product/small-stainless-steel-fruit-crusher-by-electric-motor/ Is that a good one? I am looking for something not too expensive and functional for processing about 90 lbs in one day. Would that be a good choice...

Today I found a few pears with brown core in the fruit dish. We call it belly sickness in Dutch. I did not want to waste them so I juced them. About half a liter of juice. I only had a regular wine bottle to ferment it in. So I decided to cap it with a Vacuvin to keep the oxygen out. I intend to...

I found these on the web: http://www.vares.cz/eng/vares-novinky-doporucujeme/ This is their website in English. Has anyone ever used them? And how did you like them?

It never ceases to amaze me how many gallons of cider some of us are making. This is my first year and I have less than one gallon maturing in bottles. I wonder: who do you drink your cider with?

Hi, My name is Kees. I live in Laar, Germany. 4 weeks ago I collected some windfalls along the roads here, juiced them with a slow juicer and fermented them in a jerrycan with some yeast from the bottom of a Leffe beer bottle. Last weekend I passed the fermenting juice through a towel to remove...