Hello, I've just taken up brewing my own cider and have just pressed my first batch. I gathered up some windfalls and put them into the freezer to pulp and press when I had a good load (I thought they wouldn't go rotten like this). I also gathered a load of fresh windfalls (no more than 3 days old) and pulped and pressed these on the same day (24/08/08).
I thawed the frozed apples and pulped then. They squashed down very easily and when pressed produced a milky green juice.
The fresh windfalls were a lot harder to pulp and presed down into a brown juice. I got more juice from the frozen ones.
I ended up putting 2 campden tablets in each of the gallon jars. The brown juice seemed to go a bit cloudy and the green juice was unaffected.
Would anyone be able to tell me if freezing apples before hand will affect the end product and have I ruined it all by putting too many campden tabglets in.
Also does using very young apples have any adverse affect ?
Thanks
I thawed the frozed apples and pulped then. They squashed down very easily and when pressed produced a milky green juice.
The fresh windfalls were a lot harder to pulp and presed down into a brown juice. I got more juice from the frozen ones.
I ended up putting 2 campden tablets in each of the gallon jars. The brown juice seemed to go a bit cloudy and the green juice was unaffected.
Would anyone be able to tell me if freezing apples before hand will affect the end product and have I ruined it all by putting too many campden tabglets in.
Also does using very young apples have any adverse affect ?
Thanks