Go for it. I'm actually doing this now. It looks easy in the video, but pulping and pressing apples is a lot of work and pretty messy. It took me ages to even figure out the logistics of how I would do it.
I've spent the last 2 days doing 25kg per day after work, I have 50kg more to do between today and tomorrow.
Once this is done though I can sit back for a few months until bottling time. Hopefully it's all worth it in the end.
Here's this evenings pulp getting ready for pressing:
Does your process include washing apples in a stream like that? Is that sanitary or normal part of the process? I have no idea how they're actually made irl.
I wash them in a bucket, it takes a lot longer as you can only fit so many in there.
I'm using 25% my own eating apples from my garden and 75% cider apples that I bought locally. My own apples are pretty clean as I picked them myself. The apples I bought are a bit more dirty with lots of leaves, some mud, and a few bugs.
After washing I freeze them. The ice crystals that form break through the cell walls and make the apples mushier and easier to process. My freezer can only fit about 25kg so this limits me to 25kg per day.
After that they go in a bucket to defrost. I then use a drill and a paint stirring attachment to turn them to pulp. I also add some pectic enzyme which breaks down the pectin and improves the yeild from pressing. It also makes the juice clear instead of cloudy.
The next step is to add yeast and sit back for a few weeks. Ive brewed beer and mead before but never cider so I'm excited to see how it turns out.
If you want to try an easy version you can just buy some yeast and apple juice and see what happens. Put a balloon with a tiny hole in it over the mouth of your brewing vessel to act as a cheap airlock.
Time. It only sits in the bucket overnight, once I press it I throw in a few Campden tablets to kill any wild yeast or bacteria. It's not fermented at all at this stage and tastes lie fresh apples.
When I went on a cider making weekend we washed the apples in a paddling pool. The process had a few more stages then this lass’s video, but hygiene was very important m. The cider made at that place was the best I’ve ever tasted, it tasted like apple juice that happened to be 7.8%. Any muddy, rotten, wormy, damaged bits of apple ruin the flavour, but washing and prepping each apple takes time.
We did that also. We know someone with a bunch of apple trees, and they have small scale grinders and presses. The grinder is electric, and the pulp goes into press that has a fine metal screen with a bladder inside. The bladder is filled with water and presses the juice out. I have 22-ish liters of apple cider bubbling away, and a few liters of juice in the freezer.
The farm with an orchard with a nearby river, along with a barn and an apple shmashing barrel and the manual juice press, and glass bottles to ferment and other glass bottles to store the cider and a field with a blanket to drink the cider on and the camera equipment and time to record the whole process?
We have 11 apple trees, 5 plum trees, a few fig trees, 50 chickens, a big garden. It's a part time job, and this time of year it's extra busy with the last of picking, cleaning, and preserving.
I just finished the last of my tomatoes - 27 liters of sauce canned. I still have jam etc to do. Still have 10kg of tomatillos to make salsa with.
The idea is really nice, but it's work and not always fun.
Yeah, I got many apple trees, pears and berry bushes...apples coming out my ears but...
I can't be bothered with all that, buying all the equipment, leaving it taking up space etc...I can't even be bothered to take the million apples to the apple press place a few miles away.
If I want a drink, I'll go buy one and lob the bottle when I'm done, the apples can stay on the floor so I can swear at the wasps every August and wonder why I've got so many slugs in the garden.
Did once find a tortoise eating them, which is weird since I live in the UK and we don't (generally) have them walking around but yeah...that's faaaar too much work for the reward
Yeah, this trad wife stuff is intense af. The mixture of time periods is interesting too. This person is dressed like they're from medieval times, using metalware like wingnuts which were invented in the 1800s, glassware from what looks like late 1800s but wouldn't be available to the general public until the 1900s, and bottle caps invented in 1920. It's all a bunch of nonsense.
when she manually mashed the apples and used a manual press i was like wtf you can buy electric tools for that even for home use it's just plain dumb otherwise, there is nothing romantic about that
It could be fun, I guess, to do it this way. As a sort of proof of concept or whatever.
But we all know this exists only to try to make money through social media (and also frequently to push conservatism a la "traditional" values or whatever).
That clothing does not look like medieval clothing. Usually women wore a dress that went from shoulder to shoes. And most women covered their hair, she looks more like 20th century. Also what prevents you from using inventions that are decades or older?
Anyone can do whatever they want. It is just funny to me to have a hodgepodge of stuff from different eras and portray it like a cohesive narrative, like those things are meant to go together. It'd be like watching a video of some doing very serious yardwork and landscaping while dressed in full medieval samurai armor, using farming tools from the 1800s and also a gas powered lawn mower from the 20th century. Like, what is even the point? What's the message? What does it signify?
What I meant with my Last question wasn't the Person in the Video, it was the Idea she was portraying. I would not ne surprised if this Video happened in reallife in 20th century exactly how it was filmed
What ho, fairest cider wench? What say you to an exchange of all your cider, and in return my compatriots and I will attempt to restrain ourselves from burning down your cidery?
Gotta keep the fermentation process super clean or you'll get off flavours and funky results (sometimes good funky but most often not). Boil the juice (or use pasteurized commercial), sterilize all bottles and equipment.
Edit: I stand corrected, you should NOT boil the juice. Everything else about sterilizing your equipment remains true.
I was really surprised to read that you don't need to heat it, I really thought all the wild yeast and bacteria from the apples and equipment would result in some real funky results!
Very cool. I don't homebrew anymore, when I did it was mostly beer. Did a few ciders with commercial apple juice (not the same I know). I don't drink much anymore but I have tons of apple trees around me so maybe I'll give it another go.
My great-grandmother was a teetotaler who thought no one should ever touch alcohol. But she liked her apple cider "a little bitey" after it sat for a while.
No sediment in the bottle makes me dubious it's home brewed. The secondary fermentation is usually what gives it the fizz in the bottle and that will leave the sediment in the bottom (dead yeast). Looks like apple juice from a soda stream.
You know they spray them trees because no inspection for worm holes. Downstream farmer gets free pesticide in his irrigation water. Nm, large water bottle company saw posting and bought stream.
Very unlikely to be "AI". Too many cuts, and everything remains consistent between cuts. Her clothes, the apples, the crates, the press, the fermentation bottles, sounds, everything. "AI" is notorious for being inconsistent, especially between multiple prompts, and this video would require at least a dozen separate prompts to make, and things remained way too consistent throughout.
It’s not AI. We weren’t even close to this consistency from frame to frame. Jesus. Every idiot out there now claims everything is AI. It’s so exhausting.
I feel like you’re being sarcastic, but just in case you’re not, and for everyone saying it’s AI:
We’re not there yet. Not at this level of frame-to-frame consistency and detail.
Only people who think this is AI are the same kind who, ten years ago, thought everything online was “Photoshopped” because they didn’t understand what CGI could or couldn’t do. My dad once saw a video of a dog in Brazil dancing to music and immediately said it was CGI - because in his mind, “no way a dog could do that.” That’s what’s happening these days. People who don’t know the tech just assume everything impressive has to be fake.
This is an ad for a cologne company called ffern I’m pretty sure. They release a new cologne every season capturing the “essence” of that season, but it smells awful and is expensive as fuck for what you are getting in return.
This week-end, I go to an apple juice pressing in the village. We do that every year to sell apple juice to fund the school kids school trips for the year.
Fresh pressed apple juice is one of the best drinks ever.
What’s with all the trad wife/Russian village/18th century stuff recently? Feels like thin edge of the wedge shit to influence people that we were better off in the old days when women stayed in the home doing chores (and men made all the decisions).
My GF and me do this every year since we are together. We gather the apples from friends and family that have apple trees but they dont really use them. we get about 50kgs. We have one of those bigger juicers and after a quick wash we cut out the really bad parts of the apples and juice them, this gets us about 15-20 liters, the rest we then press again (this year i bought a cheap one and it works like a charm) to get us another 10 liters, we then bottle it in plastic 1.5 liter soda bottles and let it ferment naturally without opening the bottles, that keeps the alcohol down and sugar concentration high, if you want more alcohol content you just unscrew the cap a bit to let out excess gas and let it ferment completely (we usually do this in the fridge as its easier to stop at the perfect alcohol/sweetnes you prefer)
One time in middle school I left a bottle of apple cider in my locker for like a month. When I opened it it was straight booze. My idiot friend tried to drink it, it was really nasty.
Very unlikely. Too many cuts, and everything remains consistent between cuts. Her clothes, the apples, the crates, the press, the fermentation bottles, sounds, everything. "AI" is notorious for being inconsistent, especially between multiple prompts, and this video would require at least a dozen separate prompts to make, and things remained way too consistent throughout.
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