rachel19 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 My mums boyfriend is making some pear/apple cider from all the fruit in his garden.......have spent all day juicing Anyone made it before and got any tips? It's currently sitting in the kitchen in a plastic bucket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 havent got any tips....just wanted to say.... YUM....get some cheese and crackers and enjoy!! I love cider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 No, I haven't....... so I'd be interested to see how you get on. Have you checked out River Cottage? I'm sure it will be on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 I'll check river cottage - apparently there's a dustbin of potential cider vinegar in the garden too......his mum used to make this so he knows what he's doing.....so he says Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted September 5, 2007 Author Share Posted September 5, 2007 Well the cider is fizzing away to itself in the kitchen - yeast sugar and water have been added and it has a very gross looking 'scum' on the top of it It is starting to smell like cider now tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 How are you making this? as we have quite a few apple trees in the garden that I'm sure would love to produce cider karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted September 5, 2007 Author Share Posted September 5, 2007 We put all the fruit througha juicer and left it for a couple of days to settle. We've followed the instructions in a book called 'The new complete book of self-sufficiency' by john seymour - my mum loves it. Apparentl 4.5 - 6kg of apples make 4.5 litres of cider. We cut up all the fruit and put it through our juicer and left it to settle for a couple of days. Then (for 23 litres roughly) you add a few teaspoons of brewers yeast, 0.5-1kg of sugar (made into a syrup with 2 pints of boiling water) into it and leave for up to 3 weeks. That seems to be about it. It doesnt look so good at the moment due to the hirrid brown scum on the top but it does smell like cider now! Still got to wait a while before the taste test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Ooo thank you, might have to give that a try karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
