How I Make Hard Cider | Vigo Mill and Hydropress| press nearly 500lb of apples using Vigo Mill |
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- How I Make Hard Cider | Vigo Mill and Hydropress| press nearly 500lb of apples using Vigo Mill |
Its that time of year yet again to Mill and press our apple and pear crop to make hard cider - This video demonstrates How I make Hard Cider using Vigo Mill and a Hydropress which works off mains water pressure. Using these two bits of machinery enabled us to Mill and press nearly 500lb of apples and pears in around 3.5 hours. The weight of fruit is assumed by using a simple formula of 20lb fruit = 1 gallon of juice (approx). The juice yield was a bit down on last years, but this is what I predicted due to the dry weather and low rainfall this summer.
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That really looks like a great and fun project. Great to see your bride getting involved. Me and my bride share the fun too. Stay well my friend. Best wishes Bob.
Hi Bob
Yes it's a really fun project Bob, but quite hard work too! My wife says her back is still aching 3 days later... But we're a good team 😉.
Stay safe too my friend.
Cheers 🍻👍
Looks like another good vintage woody. Cheers mate
Hi Keith
Hopefully it will be mate, I'm just having a pint or two of the last batch from last year 😉.
Cheers mate 🍻👍
@@cumbrianhomestead The last ones always taste the best.
Hi woody that is a handsome amount of cider you have pressed there think I need to move next door to help you sample few bottles 🤭🤭 keep safe Bill and val
You know you'd be welcome guys!
Cheers 🍻👍
Very interesting Thanks for sharing
You're welcome Larry, thanks for watching 👍
Cheers Woody 👍. Thanks for sharing Robbo.
You're welcome mate; are you making cider this year?
@@cumbrianhomestead Not now bud, work has gone mad. Although I've had plenty of apples 🍎. Mother-in-laws apple pies have gone down well though😋.
@@robbo7765
Nice one 👍
Never seen so many apples 🍎 , your gonna be well stocked for cider soon , interesting seeing how it's done, hope you're well mate, atb 👍
Hi Gaz
Yes, despite the lack of rain I got a good yield of juice mate and not that far off what I had last year. Hopefully it will turn out a decent cider.
ATB to you too mate!
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A serious piece of kit is that, must save hours of work 👍. Do you compost the old pulp from the press? Nice one mate👍
🌻Nigel…………MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Hi Mate
It was my retirement gift to myself 😃. Both the mill and the hydropress are really efficient machines. The pressed pulp went to my neighbour for his poultry, but you could out some into compost heap.
ATB 🍻👍
wow that mill does an awesome job; i have a cheap oldschool grinder that works fine, but this is awesome. also never seen hydropress; used traditional vise style.did you ever use the other style? how would you compare them?
Hey there
Yes that mill is terrific! It can process a lot of fruit quickly.
I'm a member of an orchard group who have both traditional rack and cloth press, and hydropress.
I feel the hydropress is more efficient in juice extraction but of course if you have no mains water supply then rack and cloth is a winner!
ATB 🍻🍻
Hic!
What a fab harvest, and thank you for showing us how you mill and press your apples. (Do you do the same with your pears btw?) It looks like a really good setup - what's the cleanup of the mill/extractor like? We have a depot locally where people come from even more than an hour away to get their fruit pressed, and the 0.75l bottles are sold in the shops for about a fiver a go (reasonable here!). You can get it unpasteurised to make your own cider but to be honest I'm just using a kit now. I'll love following along this year's vintage! Nicely done Woody (and nice to see Mrs Woody appear too!) H x
Yes, the pears are mixed in with the apples and milled the same way. Clean up is mostly with hosepipe and some hot water/scrubbing brush. Everything strips down easily so you can get into the nooks and crannies 😉.
It's great that you have depots nearby to take apples to be milled and pressed. So do they charge for that? Here it's probably more than likely that local orchard groups will have a press ( ours has a maximum limit per person of 40kilos, which is why I decided to buy my own!)
I will have to go easier next year, as my wife's back was still aching 3 days later 😂.
ATB 🤗❤️
I really like your setup. You can really put out a high yield of juice ratio with that grinder. I’m trying a natural scrumpy this year with just 3 gal the rest of my juice I will pitch cider yeast. Looks like you had a great year for apples
Thank you!
I'm very happy with the Vigo mill and the hydropress, I'd have loved to have a larger hydropress but it was all I could afford at the time. I only tried a wild fermentation once, and it worked out okay. Good luck with your 3 gallon scrumpy. What's your total juice yield this year?
As a friends and family apple pressing party we did about 70 gal. I took only 8 gallons home for cider but it was a fun day. Last years cider I let sit a full 11 months and it has really nice flavor @5.5%
@@BusyBeaver22
wow! 70 Gals is fantastic!
I just found 20 litres from last years brew which I didn't know I had (weird I know) so that is a full 12 months old and it is lovely with plenty of tannin. I did not get any Tremletts Bitter apples this year so expect this batch to be a bit low in tannin.
I think the cider mellows out after it sits for awhile. Wow 20 liters. Nice surprise
@@BusyBeaver22
Apologies, it was 10 litres; still nice though 😃👍
Nice job, Woody. I like your apple shredder. It shred much finer than mine.
What do you do with the apple pulp after pressing? Do you compost it?
Good luck with your cider making.
All the very best.
Hi Benni
Thank you, yes the Vigo mill is a really great piece of machinery, you just have to be careful not to put too many apples in at once or it will jam up. The dry pulp I give to my neighbour who feeds it to his poultry.
Have a great rest of the week my friend 🤗❤️
Hello Woody.
You say that it took you and the wife three and a half hours to produce this amount of juice.
How long will it take you to drink all this amber nectar, when fully fermented? 🍻😋
Take care, keep safe and keep smiling. Cheers. Pete.
Hi Pete
Well it depends if I've any other brew available LOL 😁
All being well, it should be ready to drink by spring, so should last until the next crop is ready for pressing ( unless we have a few parties! 😆🤣).
Thanks for watching Pete and ATB 🍻🍻👍👍
Awh - you've lost me now Woody. Sorry mate.
I was hoping for Single Varietal Cider, none of this blended stuff --- PMSL 😂 😂
LOL 🤣😂🤣
You know Steve, I'd really love to do a single varietal cider... Maybe in the not to distant future 😜🤞
Cheers!🍻🍻👍👍
@@cumbrianhomestead We gonna need more trees!!!
@@DigwellGreenfingers
Exactly 🤣
I'm sorry did you say 490 pounds of apples makes about one gallon of apple juice?
No; the rule of thumb is roughly 20 pounds of apples will give one gallon of juice, so 490 lbs is nearly 25 gallons.
Hope that helps
Thanks for stopping by 👍
Yes Woody! Been looking forward to this.
You're welcome Trev 👍👍🍻
Typical guy with all the nice toys to do the job. Got yourself a nice bit of juice. I’m sure it will taste great. Best wishes. Cathy
LOL 🤣😂
It was my retirement gift to myself Cathy and Its paid for itself in the first year!
Hopefully it will be a good cider
Take care my friend 🤗❤️
A very cool update, Woody. We always love seeing the cider process. Good to see all that hard work growing has paid off.
Cheers,
Rob
Thanks Rob, I guess it won't be too much longer before we see you making some?
I got more juice yield than I expected so hopefully it will turn out some decent stuff.
Take care my friend and ATB🍻👍
Nice one bud all that hard work growing and squashing has paid off, that’s some apples that’s have made some quality cider. Cheers
Cheers Steve, I was quite surprised by the volume of juice yield given the lack of rain we've had here this summer. Got SG of 1.050 which is good for our part of the UK.
ATB 🍻👍
Love it! Also like many of your videos you sparked an idea in me. I have a very small harvest of really fantastic apples. I also have a 'juicer'. I am wondering if I can simply put the apple juice in to a vacuum bag (with space allowed for fermentation gases) and ferment my cider that way. Any thoughts? Love the vlogs and the 'journey' bu the way!!
Hi Gordon
That's a great idea and I think it could work. If you juice your "fantastic" apples ( make sure that the skin is on) you might get lucky and have a "wild yeast" fermentation. That could either be amazing or a disappointment. Either way, it's worth a try I'd say. Best of luck.
I'm thrilled that my videos are giving you creative inspiration!
Take care my friend
ATB 🍻👍
Wow! Great video on making your cider 🙂 take care
Thanks so much Christine, take care too.🤗❤️