We’ve been busy. We’ve had Annie’s Apples and combined them with a load from the Orchard, and those have been pressed
There’s another 8 truggs from Sweet Briar ready to go too
As of this week 2015 production is underway. We’ve pressed apples from The Francis Estate, and some from Mott’s
We pressed about 9 truggs of apples and have 85 ltrs of apple juice sitting waiting to be fermented. SG 1.050 so heading for 6.5% ABV
We’ve compressed the 3 hours of pressing into a 4 minute video
Pressing apples is not so straight forward as pressing, say, grapes. You get grapes, squash them in a press and juice comes out. Apples have attitude. You take a kilo of apples, shove them in the press and squash them, you’ll get a kilo of bruised and battered apples but little juice.
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Had a call from Steve. He has trees that are laden with apples and they just fall. Time to go and rescue them.
Spent our first afternoon harvesting apples from a garden in Nailsea. Took 3 truggs from Annie’s garden
Mostly desert apples with a few culinary. Will be pressed shortly
A beautiful sunny afternoon at the orchard. The blossom has mostly gone now and apples are beginning to grow.
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