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You have the makings of a very good domestic hard cider. Gala for your base, Mac for sharp, Liberty for tannins. A great place to start. Many commercial cideries here in Michigan are using these apples. Take a cruise around the net to find out more. Here are a couple of links to start...

Congrats on the tree! You'll need two trees for cross pollination. You can go with multi-fruit grafting, but you won't get satisfactory production for cider. Consider espalier in a small space. It will take 5 years to get decent production. You can get apples before that, but you won't get...

Hi Bernard! I love these kind of forums because I can learn from people making their own cider. For example I just finished reading your five-year old post on overflowing foam out my airlock. Boy, did that happen fast! Thank you for your long-ago post on that. However, as for growing apples...

Three gallons. My first effort. 2 Gallons Jonathon, 1.5 quarts Gold Rush, 1.5 Quarts Tramlett's Bitter, Geneva, 1 Quart Granny Smith. With champaign yeast.

I have not seen any, which is why I grow my own. Takes 3-5 years to start. The problem is scarcity. There is a lot of commercial demand for traditional cider apples, so juice is difficult to locate. There are orchards in the area that grow traditional cider apples, but the local wineries are...

Just to be sure, this is not the English Tremlett's Bitter (a bittersweet), but a plant mistaken for it at the Cornell University Geneva station, which is a bittersharp. I have not heard that this variety has a fireblight problem.

The apples from my home orchard were ready for juicing after a month of sweating. I grew a bushel of Granny Smith, just over a peck of Tramlett's Bitter (Geneva), and a peck of Gold Rush apples. And for more sugar, I also picked up some cheap Jonathon apples from a local orchard. I set aside...

Maybe you can tell us why you selected those varieties? I'm only familiar with a few of them.

Thank you, Mad. Was that a centrifugal model or slow press? Looking at the juice and strain method on youtube I did not see the foam you mentioned. Also, I think I can use the juicer on my Balaton cherries. That is a good reminder. The Granny Smith's are part of our original 16-tree...

We're having an average to good year in Berrien County Michigan -- the second largest apple producing county in Michigan. Cool, wet spring delayed blossom time and saved us from any frost damage. The summer was hot and dry. Harvests are delayed a week. The biggest problem across the region has...

Thank you. I apologize for taking some time to reply. Sounds good. We already freeze about 10 gallons of tomato sauce each year. Space has been tight since we moved out of the city, downsized housing, and upsized the land. I'm planning that as my small orchard grows, so will my interest in...

I'm getting ready to produce my first cider. I added a couple of apple trees recommended for cider a few years ago, and this year I have a small bit of production this year. My Tramlett's Bitter tree has produced about 10 pounds of apples, and my two Gold Rush trees will produce about 20. In...