:)

[Trunky]

[Joe90]

Thanks Trunky, i think the pears never ripen on these trees, they started falling off about a month ago still rock hard, some of them were stored for at least 3 weeks before i pressed them but they were still solid. It's very interesting about the keeving i found this link http://www.cider.org.uk/keeving.html and can confirm that is exactly what it is doing. Before i read your reply i pushed the sediment back down into the Dj and it re settled in the bottom but i can see it is already starting to form in the top again. So i take it that the best thing to do is to try to rack it off at some point?

[Trunky]

[beertrix]

i spotted an apple tree near work and gathered two brew buckets full and about the same amount of pears from a neighbours tree havnt a clue what variety either are.
pulped with a fence post and one of them paint stirers you attach to an electric drill.
pressed in a plastic tub with some net curtain and bits of shelf i had lying about using a scissor jack and the shed roof.
i was supprised to get 5 gallon of juice with such a crude. press i took photos but dont know how to upload em.
any way i stuck half a dozen campdens in left 24 hours and added champagne yeast.
so when should i rack?
when should i bottle?
when should i drink?

[beertrix]

[Trunky]

[beertrix]

cant seem to get these fecking photos to upload then again maybe thats a good thing

[beermonsta]

your welcome
(if you want me to edit and remove any photo from the post let me know)

PS the reason the photo didn't show is because you linked the "slideshow" photo from imagebucket instead of the proper picture.

[beertrix]

cheers for that mate it was doing my head in

[JontyR]

Beertrix, your press is a stroke of pure genius mate, nice and simple and did the job.

[jason123]

Beermonsta

Why the electric fence in your garden

[beertrix]

its to keep the albinos away

[beermonsta]

Beermonsta

Why the electric fence in your garden

tis not my garden - reread the post, I just helped post beertrixs pictures

Beertrix - albinos??? as in lacking in pigment albinos? like I have an albino hedgehog just like this...


or do you mean some other creature...like an alpacker...

now i'm really curious!

[Trunky]

[sleepygonzales]

Been helping out cidermaking using a lovely old press.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBuG125BsIg

wow! Looks like fun!