pressing tomorrow

[jean-yves]

while you are all brewing at the moment i'm pressing apple this week end.

everything is in place (cider press, mill, vessel and of course: beer for the workers
apples have been sorted and are ready to be crushed we start at 10 am
it will took 2 days to press it
we're making 700 liters this week end with 3 cider press hope everythings go well

[Vossy1]

Good luck JY

[jean-yves]

time to do it now

will try to send some pics

the mixing of apple for this pressing is /
-31% of sweet apple variéty: "douce coêtligné"
-31% of sweet/bitter, var: "douce moên" + "peau de chien"
-30% of bitter, var : "marie menard" + " kermerrien"
-8% of acid , var: "judor"

these are all very good breton's varieties of apples and this mixing should give a good bitter/sweet of sparkling cider.

[monkey_doctor]

Go for it JY!!!

[Jim]

JY's pics!!

[jean-yves]

no chance, there's no ox here

nearly done, we"re at 750L and we'll get about 100L for tomorow
we've left the cider press for the night, we'll press a bit tomorow , there is still some juice coming.
i had a better efficiency that i thought, due to the big cider press wich give a lots of juice.
the OG is 1055 wich is good and the mixing of apple give a good color .
i've put the FV at 9° to slow the beginning of the fermentation and help the juice to clarify ( "le chapeau brun") this could be done in 3-8 days and the wort does not lost more than 1-2 point during that time.

[Andy]

Good work JY - that's a lot of cider

[Jim]

More of JY's excellet pics.


Working Cider Press


700L FV of cider


Filling the FV


Sorting the Apples

[Andy]

Superb stuff!

[oxford brewer]

Puts my thinking about brewing 5 gallons of scrumpy to shame
Great pictures , and thats one hell of a FV you got there

Colin

[Bigster]

Wow. Great pictures JY

Not sure 15g of yeast will be enough to ferment that lot

[jean-yves]

well , in fact i don't need to use yeast , it'll ferment with the wild yeast

the OG is still at 1055, which is great , actually the wort is starting to clarify and if everything go well i could get that "chapeau brun" that one i'm looking for and which is the most difficult to do , it could be done this week end. i'll send you pics of it as you can really see what i mean

[Reg]

Looking good J-Y. Sorry I've been incommunicado. Mrs Reg's pregnancy is taking al ittle longer than planned.