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Good info. Does Ritter's do custom blends? Baumans is the local cider presser near me http://www.baumanfamily.com/

I'm also in PA. In my area we have orchards and we have one outfit that presses juice. The juice that is pressed is (by my educated guess/taste) made from all the crap apples just like Zeiglers. If you want a custom/special blend, you need to buy a lot, which is why the LHBS's do big batches...

Yeah take the advise of C-Ville Kevin and use agave for back-sweetening only. Tastes weird as a fermented sugar.

Try this yeast if you haven't already. I just went back to it after trying for the first time and I'm very impressed. It is fast and furious - will go from 1.07 to 1.01 in 3-4 days. Yeast doesn't drop-out until about 1.002 but a few weeks of aging brings that smooth apple taste back...

Refer to the nutritional facts of the sweetener you're using. Example: Honey Serving Size: 21g / 1 Tbsp Sugar: 17g So this is 81% sugar (17/21). Need 1.23 lbs of honey to make 1 lb of sugar.

I called Baumans again and got some useful info. They will do a custom pressing with a minimum of 6 bushels, if I remember correctly. 1 bushel = 3.2 gallons by my math. 'We' supply the apples. I'm good for only about 10 gals in one shot, so it would take more than you and I to make it...

I've been planning to make a "grape cider"... by which I mean a grape wine that is ~5-7% ABV. OP - what did you mean by "grape cider" ?

Baumans in Sassamansville, PA does all the pressing for the local orchards. They also sell juice but its often made from red delicious and other junky varieties so I don't brew with it. Their juice is flash-pasteurized (heat). Frecon Farms up here grows apples and makes their own hard cider...

Sounds good. What did you use for raspberry juice? 12% of straight, unsweetened raspberry juice seems like it might be too tart.

A lot of people here will have you think that fresh juice will make all your dreams come true. In my area, there is one cider mill, and many apple orchards that all sell their own juice (one of which makes hard cider) - all the juice is pressed at the one cider mill. The juice that is sold by...

Choice of sugar, in general, is a huge factor in my opinion. Your approach is a great idea since it also addresses the lack of flavor that often accompanies cider made from grocery-store juice. I've played around with corn dextrose, tapioca dextrose, clear rice syrup, tapioca syrup, date sugar...

Safbrew S-33 Robust ale yeast able to tolerate high alcohol conditions (up to 11.5% v/v). Used to produce a wide range of beer styles including Belgian wheat and Trappist beers. Available in 11.5 g sachets. http://www.fermentis.com/fo/60-Beer/60-11_product_rangeHB.asp (edit - follow link...

Came out awesome. Added 1 lb of frozen, semi-thawed raspberries during 24 hr cold-crash. FG 1.005. Filtered, kegged & force-carbed.

Right, that's what I meant when I said the yield would be poor.

It will work, but it will be extremely time consuming and the yield will be poor compared to pressing. I have a Champion juicer with 1/3 HP motor and trying to get a significant amount of juice is very slow.

Jacob_Marley, Very true. In my mind (only), it comes down to the following question: what is more surprising - (1) that Chinese apple juice contains arsenic and Chinese apples are often treated with arsenic-containing insecticides, or (2) that almost all of the big-brand apple juice in the US...

gregbathurst & Jacob_Marley - Thank you for unveiling the REAL issue behind the arsenic/apple issue - CHINA. Its not about dirt, not about water, not about the FDA. "Somehow" the articles about the issue don't explain the root cause - CHINA. If you buy the juice listed in the original post...

Update to anyone who is interested: I am still using the original filter I bought from McMaster Carr. I've probably put about 50 gals through it at this point. Thanks

How do you know they use "all local ingredients" if they don't "give out any info on what the ingredients are"???

If you are like me and don't want to use juice from China (they use pesticides etc that are banned here), read VERY carefully. The country of origin is almost always printed directly on the container as a post-process rather than on the label. On concentrate cans, it's usually printed on the...