Windfall TC

[bandit]

This may be real cider I dont know but I took one of these



Which looked like this



And juiced the lot through one of these



And ended up with 2 gallons of fresh apple juice with some salvaged cider yeast from my last TC brew.



The OG was 1.040 Do I need to add anything else as I have never made it like this before

[subzero]

Possibly some citric acid and some yeats nutrient, but dont quote me on that, but i now i would do that. ^_^

[oblivious]

What about adding a campden tablet to inhibit wild yeast?

[Gurgeh]

I do this on a slightly larger scale - I use about 50Kg apples typically and put them all through my shredder (bought for this purpose). i then press all the pulp (can't remember the term for that) and leave the juice in a fermenter for a month or so. then i rack off and leave it until the new year. so far i havn't bothered adding any yeast - the wild stuff does the job fine.

This year I will use a massive starter of specialised cider yeast though, they can battle it out with the wild boys as i won't bother putting any campdens in there...

i'm also going to have a few more apples this year