Alex harvested apples this weekend. He sorted the apples into keepers and juicers, ending up with a surplus of about five bushels. This afternoon, we made use of our new apple pulping machine. Scary thing, but amazing. A bushel of apples takes about a minute to process, and you can throw them in whole -- no more cutting them in half or more.
We then pressed the pulp in the hydropress and got about 60 litres of juice. We mixed all the different batches in a fermentation vat, then drew off six or so litres of juice for drinking fresh and freezing. The rest will be fermented into cider. Alex had fun calculating the amount of yeast to include.
We finally had a satisfying harvest, a good yield and the juice was phenomenally tasty -- sweet and pleasant on the palate. It's all starting to pay off.
And the donkeys agreed. They got tastings of the residue pulp, and they were thrilled.
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