Oh, and since this thread is still new/active - part two of the question is still open: has anyone here tested to see if wild yeasts survive when freezing apples like this?
I suspect if we do some wild yeast batches again this year we can get away with relying on wild yeast from the fresh...
Perfect, thanks for the confirmation, Yooper! When we started last year we scrambled to get everything done in one multi-day marathon session. This should make things more approachable this year!
We have picked some of our crab apples but we are waiting to get enough other varieties (ideally bittersweets) to blend and set up a few batches all together (i.e. we want to wait to crush & juice everything at once). We would like to freeze the crab apples whole until we have everything ready...
