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Good to know. Do you de-stem? Obviously won't be coring.

It's a barrel shaped cooler with a lid on top. How many times the recipe can I fit into a five gallon bucket?

"If they are the size of quarters, they sound like ornamental crabapples, and not eating crabs. How do they taste?" That was the big surprise. Out of curiosity I tasted one. They taste very much like a granny smith apple. So far I've already canned applesauce and apple butter from them, and...

It was a banner year for our crabapple trees, so I'm going to give this a try--my first attempt at wine making. 1) I have a five gallon drink cooler (plastic with spigot at the bottom) for my primary fermenter. How much of the recipe can I start in it (3/4 gallons)? When it comes time to rack...