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“The quantity of juice varies with the type and quality of apples, but a bushel will produce somewhere between 2 to 4 gallons of juice. On average, 5 bushels will yield about 15 gallons of fresh cider (apple juice).” I use a small basket press and typically get closer to 4 than 2 gallons per...

Yes sir, two things happen the apples soften a bit and they dehydrate some. So they crush a bit easier and the juice is a little richer in sugar. You want to visually inspect everything you crush anyway but when they’ve set for a week the buggy ones are much more obvious because spoilage has...

Sounds like a fine windfall. A hand crank grape crusher works pretty well, better when it doesn’t have the destemmer bars. You can also pound them in the ancient Basque style, lots of work but fun if you like that sort of thing. For that the easiest way is a 20 or 25 gallon stainless kettle and...

I regularly press after fermentation has at least begun. Arguably the best wine I have made (meaning very well received by all who tried it and far better than the commercially available Croatian product)was this year’s cherry wine. 30# Montmorency,25# Evan’s Bali 2 gallons boiled water and 8#...

50# cherries (20# Evan’s Bali, 30#Montmorency) picked 6/23. 8# sugar two gallons boiled well water yeast 2 packets BM4x4, two packets Bourgovin212. Added sugar poured hot water over to dissolve preliminary mash pitched yeast 6/24 when must had cooled enough. Pressed 6/28 yield was roughly 6...

Uhudler, 25# of Swenson Red, 25# or 30# of Frontenac another 60# of Golden Muscat all full cluster left on the skins for a week. BM 4x4 and that 212 yeast (I think). Yep left the colonies seperate on the fruit for the first 24 hours then stirred ‘em in and let ‘em battle no, no campden. Not...

Beaumont Hello, I searched "Beaumont" and your old thread came up. I was wondering if you had planted and what your experience up to now has been? I've got 7 cuttings I'm attempting to start, and ya the information out there is limited, just the limited backstory on Bunchgrapes. Still it...