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Old 25 September 2021, 20:08   #341
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and the lady processors are lined up
should be fun...
The Immaculate Contraption rides again!
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Old 28 September 2021, 01:44   #342
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The Immaculate Contraption rides again!
We might have pressed this years last 3 batches today for 120L
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Old 30 October 2021, 19:41   #343
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good to hear from you willk
I thought with 370 hp you might have slipped off the end of the flat earth
Slipped off the edge, no. Missus willk mighta pushed me over it today grumbling about hauling in 400kg of cider apples. They're just about ripe and I used your pole method to shake the part of the crop that wasn't on the deck already. Overall the haul is a half ton and the first 70L of cider/applejuice is in a controlled environment turning into Willk's Well-hard Cider. I hope for around the 250L/440 pints mark.

There were no bears.
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sound good
I'll rustle up a few bears if you want.

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That looks remarkably fine!
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Old 28 September 2022, 16:00   #347
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Well we are back to our old tricks. Thanks to the bear problem I'm getting calls to come and pick the apples. It would have been nice to let a couple of the trees full of apples ripen for a couple more weeks.
We pressed 100 L . The juice is a bit tangy but the Immaculate Contraption is working fine as usual
We have been making carrot juice with some of the big carrots- 14 carrots to a liter
different machine for the carrots
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Old 19 August 2023, 19:42   #348
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2023 apple time but my long time pal (of 45 years) in the picking and pressing said his right arm doesn't move any more. So he isn't going to be able to help. So I told him just to come by and offer spiritual advice. He might get a grandson or two to step up.
It was a great apple growing year as long as we kept watering the trees. All good as long as the forest fires stay away.
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Wow, I’m in my second attempt to make my own cider but I have to buy fresh pressed juice from the local orchards. Since you appear to have been doing this for a while I have a question. I like a completely dry cider so I ferment until it’s done bubbling and then add some sugar before bottling for carbonation. It comes out dry and bubbly but not terribly apple flavored. Are there any tricks to totally dry and strong flavor or are they mutually exclusive?

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The hard cider we make is very simple but we do not bottle it. We use a food safe plastic 20L bucket with a tight fitting lid. Fill it with fresh juice, snap the lid on and leave it in a cool spot on the back porch.
In a couple of months before the cold weather hits. Just around the end of October our batch is ready to sample. We have 2 older refrigerators that we store the buckets in and have plenty to drink past New Year. Then they go back out on the back room on the porch and go to vinegar that my wife uses in next years pickles.

Willk's brew looks might fine

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Thanks. Enjoy your vats of cider :-). Sounds wonderful.
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well it has been a different year with out my friend helping. So now I only do the pressing and leave the picking to others. So far over 350 gallons. I give my old pal 25 gallons for his grand kids. We put away 100 gallons for our share the rest split between the pickers and workers that help.
we figured that we have pressed around 4500 5 gallon (20L) buckets since we started 45 years ago in 1978. No BS
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Glad to hear that you're still at it Hank - every season brings it's own challenges. I too have a few friends who have poor harvesting arms.
Nothing wrong with their drinking arms though!

I failed to press juice last fall - a shame as I had harvested and stored, but life and pest ridden fruit got in the way of the great pressing weekend, a damn shame IMO. This year I had better pest management in place (no bears whatsoever but I did have a brace* of foxes stealing windfalls) and despite a record wet summer, managed to haul in 575kg of mostly cider variety fruit. Pressing commences tomorrow - hopefully.

Enjoy the winter - good luck in '24


* I say brace, but missed both of them....
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Glad to hear you are still pressing Willk.

With my pal not helping and the highways department closed a main bridge for repairs our total gallons number was down compared to past years.

The bridge was rebuilt in the middle of October and the folks who live on the wrong side of the bridge had "our" largest amount of apple and pear trees had to pick their own fruit and lend a hand with the pressing.
They brought 2 large pick up trucks full and we got almost 100 gallons. We had our juice freezers full so we had a lot to trade for salmon and buckets to let go to sparkling cider.
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