We've just finished making the apple juice tonight, we managed to extract about seven gallons from this barrow full of apples.
I've no idea what variety they are but they produced a sweet pink apple juice.
Here's Huggsy ( Blind Pugh) operating our Speidel Apple Mill. Its the first time that we've used this bit of kit and it was very impressive. Its output was such that it could have kept numerous presses the size of ours busy.
Huggsy and the press. :thumbup:
Building the cheese. Thats what they call the bags of milled apples prior to it being pressed.
Putting the pressure on.
The press is a Vigo ' rack and cloth press. This link proved to be extremely useful on this, the first occasion that we've used it.
http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Vigo_Rack_&_Cloth_Screw_PressHere's the proof of the pudding. Our harvest, the apples produced 7 gallons of the most beautiful pink juice.
If we were to bottle it and present it properly, we would get a minimum of £2.00 a bottle, which would have given us well over a hundred quid for our evenings efforts.
This was a sort of dry wet run and its certainly given us plenty of room for thought. :thumbup:
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