Newbie - daft (?) questions

[timp]

First posting and being posted from the home of cider in Somerset so no excuse for the questions but I'll ask anyway:

Can I store apples that fall from my trees now until I want to use them later in the year? If so, how best to do it?

Will my homemade cider have any fizz and if not, how can I give it some?

Plan is to make it in very small amounts using apples from Discovery trees. I'll be really chuffed if I can make a gallon of drinkable, dry, slightly fizzy liquid.

No doubt I'll have loads more silly questions when I actually start to make something so please bear with me.

 

[Beernip]

Apples store really well long term. The average apple that we see in the grocery store has been picked for about 3 months. The trick to is to keep them in a very cold place (between 32* - 37*F) but do not freeze them. If you can purge all of the air with CO2 before hand they will last longer. If you plan on making cider out of them anyways I would just do it now and let the cider age longer. The longer it ages the better it tastes (6+ months).

You can carbonate your cider just like beer. Add 4 oz of sugar to 5 gallons of cider and bottle. The trick is that it very hard to get a sweet carbonated cider without kegging equipment. Since you like dry cider that shouldn't be an issue.

 

[timp]

Thanks Beernip. I guess storing 'em is the option then - will apples that drop now be suitable for cider making? It seems a shame to waste them. Co2 isn't an option here but a cold (cool) place is do-able. Are cooking apples (Bramley) suitable? I've access to those too.
Thanks for the sugar tip - any specific type better than another?