Cider And Apple Juice Making on the Homestead

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5 жыл бұрын

Dot had a load of apples on her apple tree so we decided to make some apple juice and cider. i had to make a quick and dirty apple scratter to save use having to do it by hand. it worked great and we ended up with 10 gallons of juice in the end.
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@bearbin 5 жыл бұрын

I see you were using a plastic Woolworth's bag for the used pulp - you must have quite a big collection, since they went bust 10 years ago now!

@chrisgreen1331 5 жыл бұрын

Mate I love how happy you are living the life you have. Living the dream buddy.

@lmhall6635 5 жыл бұрын

Loved this video, great fall project! Can almost smell the apples. It’s fun that Dot’s parents are now helping too! And it’s cool you’ll be giving to your neighbours AND the horses. All lovely indeed! I’m one who hates to see the summer pass, but this sweet video is cutting through my autumn blues. Well done!

@MalcOfLincoln 5 жыл бұрын

That's great Kris, you grin says it all. Just the sort of thing I like, and worked a treat.

@jackmehoff2961 5 жыл бұрын

A man after my own stomach, I wish I could give it 10 thumbs up. I Love Apples ! It`s been apple season here in Michigan USA, and I just loaded up. I chopped up about 10lbs , and froze them for Good Eats this winter. I`m already looking forward to your follow up video & taste testing. Thank You for sharing your video, and your apple cider making experience. ATB

@dakarijamari8946 3 жыл бұрын

@Zayn Dominick definitely, been watching on Kaldrostream for since november myself :)

@wessonharrison2726 3 жыл бұрын

@Zayn Dominick Definitely, been using KaldroStream for since december myself =)

@vivaanhector8597 3 жыл бұрын

@Zayn Dominick Yup, I have been watching on kaldrostream for months myself :)

@ukohom88 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful couple living the dream , very inspiring.Much love.

@ianstyles9759 5 жыл бұрын

very clever munch box, love your place too, can,t wait for the update on cider ..👌

@Chr.U.Cas1622 4 жыл бұрын

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! Extremely well done with ingenious DIY apple crusher. Lot of cider and juice to enjoy. Thanks a lot for making recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck health and wisdom to all involved life forms.

@sburge1989 5 жыл бұрын

I read a book by a guy living on the black mountains near Wales. He had given his pigs the mashed apples and not realised it had gone over somewhat. The pigs got very drunk and were violently sick and had explosive diarrhoea, looking back he could laugh but at the time the smell was apparently quite something!

@06wade06 5 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work, can’t wait for your next videos. All the way from Australia,love what you do mate.

@Tailss1 5 жыл бұрын

That is bloody brilliant!. I get loads of apples as I have trees in my back yard, I'm going to try this.

@75bigwalk 5 жыл бұрын

This is just awesome brother!!! amazing!! Great skills mate

@fartmckenzie8175 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful bud. Professional brewer from Canada here, built yourself a grain mill. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

@sarahdeason493 2 жыл бұрын

YES ❣❣ FABULOUS ❣❣ LOVELY, LITTLE, CUTE BUILD ... AMAZING ❣ I am now craving fresh apple juice, and a taste of your Cider .. Anxious for your tast test video when your Cider is ready ! Great Job Kris !

@zvolencan1 5 жыл бұрын

I loved the fridge stuffed with bottles. :D

@nonenone-vt8cg 5 жыл бұрын

Just as well you have finished the composting toilet!

@TheGbow0704 5 жыл бұрын

Kris, you always find a solution...nice DIY build. Be sure to do a follow up on the cider

@jimmyflynn1764 Жыл бұрын

hi kris now that was brilliant HAPPY DAYS

@bethstehouwer922 5 жыл бұрын

Now that is using your head! Great job Kris and Dot :)

@marciam6224 5 жыл бұрын

Very ingenious!! I used to love apple juice & cider but we had a hay ride with our church group and went back to the church for warm apple cider afterwards. The next day ALL of us were sick from the cider. I still eat apples, love apple pie & applesauce but haven't drank cider or apple juice since. lol

@reneep9968 5 жыл бұрын

OMGOODNESS! that gadget works fantastically! It looks delicious! The two of you work so well together! You can use your scraps to make apple cider vinegar! and jelly. Blessings...

@sarahdeason493 2 жыл бұрын

YES .. Apple Cider Vinegar would be Great .. and Apple Jelly / Yum .. He said will be giving pulp to neighbors horses .. Maybe next batch .. Wonder if a type of Apple Pie could be made from the Pulp .. In my head that sounds unique and delicious ❣

@riggshomestead-fast9524 5 жыл бұрын

That AVE shirt increases the chooch factor by 900 angry pixies! Love it!

@robertm4050 5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if many other people would spot that.

@jamess1787 5 жыл бұрын

I was the first!

@gregormiller4037 5 жыл бұрын

Smoke cigerts!

@punkbloater 5 жыл бұрын

Riggs Homestead-fast - yeah that made my day, it doesn’t take much. 😊

@hogthrob 5 жыл бұрын

I think that was a Cockford Ollie Apple Scrapper.

@bjtrigg6124 5 жыл бұрын

Fresh apple juice for a week sure will keep you regular ;)! Great video as always.

@tamitng 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Kris! That looks great!

@PineRidgeHomestead 5 жыл бұрын

Great video can't wait until our apples are ready!

@FpsRix 5 жыл бұрын

That scratter is awesome :D now make a press out of that drill press you got there!

@blackbway 5 жыл бұрын

i like this project a lot. thanks bro.

@krisr1885 5 жыл бұрын

Homemade food is always amazing!

@irishroessel7814 5 жыл бұрын

Love the lifestyle and so u hang out also with mr Craig Godbless !!

@graham-kirby 5 жыл бұрын

I hope you videoed the Apple scratter construction, that is a very cool tool. Thanks for the video btw

@conversiamo 5 жыл бұрын

Try to turn some into vinegar. Nice for your salad. Good work Kris, loved it.

@Quake81270 5 жыл бұрын

Chicken's will love the apple scraps or compost pile then put it back around apple trees. Circle of the apples life.

@hardcorefishermanofhull7438 2 жыл бұрын

That was an amazing video really great that was that machine wet brilliant I'm just building one

@edwarddouglaspierce 5 жыл бұрын

“The Art of Fermentation” is an excellent read!

@markrodriguez0 5 жыл бұрын

Really cool idea

@robviolin1 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice apple machine. 👍

@DonovanChilders 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone else giggle when you saw this thing work like a charm? :)

@almath9987 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, have made apple jack before from hard cider i made, all you need to do is freeze distilling. This basically means putting the cider in the freezer, the water freezes but the alcohol dosent so you drain it off. This comes out about 30% proff depending on the strength of the cider, very nice indeed

@222rich 5 жыл бұрын

you will get methanol (poisonous) with the ethanol

@AlFred-cc6wm 5 жыл бұрын

Dot's getting brave!

@Mindy56743 2 жыл бұрын

I wish you would post the plans for the Apple chopper. This is a amazing video

@nick.caffrey 5 жыл бұрын

Dot's family must like you!

@badbadbob1 5 жыл бұрын

Wow that is great.

@george8873 5 жыл бұрын

Great solution to a problem. Also, dunno how it's done, but I had a neighbor make apple butter out of the mush after making cider. Guess it's cooked down for a while, then ran through a fine sieve to get out the large particles. Not sure what's added to it, if anything, but It's quite tasty, kind of like an apple jam.

@jennifersvitko5997 5 жыл бұрын

Old time apple butter is crushed apples, cider, spices, heat and TIME. My father and a friend made apple butter in a huge iron kettle. It took about 12 or so hours of tending a fire, but was that stuff awesome.

@elizabethholden9351 5 жыл бұрын

Actually it's fairly easy to make. Cook it down with water, brown sugar, and spices ( usually cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and ginger) to your taste. Strain it and can it in sterile jars. Boil jars to seal. I have also cooked the mash in a crock pot on low heat, when I had other chores. If you peel apples before hand you can also make apple sauce; nothing better with a roast pork and potato cakes dinner.

@moiragoldsmith7052 5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, thats brilliant... and hilarious. 😁💖

@lisabarajas1269 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@dewisimon6081 5 жыл бұрын

That cider gonna be really strong haha

@susanbell2771 5 жыл бұрын

Mmmmmm home made cider, yum, be careful giving the apple cake( waste) to the horses, check with the owner, some horses may bolt all the apples at once and could get colic (very bad for horses), better on the compost heap. You could have a good taste test party when the cider ready though, If you need any testers Id volunteer ; )

@nick.caffrey 5 жыл бұрын

She's pretty, your Dot!

@RicSeabergsUseful-Information 5 жыл бұрын

Haha really cool kris

@wilhallman2890 Жыл бұрын

that is awesome

@dogboymalone11 5 жыл бұрын

GOOD SHIT. MANY THANKS. DBM. ENGLAND.

@jpo3801 4 жыл бұрын

That was good!

@tropifiori 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@tylerd.9457 5 жыл бұрын

Now that's the Cockford-Ollie!

@chrisrobinette8475 10 ай бұрын

You're amazing

@Toomaaaz 5 жыл бұрын

Now you will need cellar to store everything :)

@jennykirchner9989 5 жыл бұрын

thats so cool

@kalilaelias7820 5 жыл бұрын

U are amazing :)

@Granite 5 жыл бұрын

well done

@wetdedstuocm 5 жыл бұрын

Yum,,just need some donuts..

@stearsirl 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kris, love your channel. I want to make gin infused with blueberries similar to what you have done. I have the same kilner jar, I’m just wondering to you strain the liquid first or serve direct from the kilner jar ?

@westsaxoninwales Жыл бұрын

This a great video! Out of wonder, I've got heat treated pallets that I've made a mock up scratter with, what's your thoughts on using heat treated pallet wood to make one?

@vice4784 Жыл бұрын

Could you make or put a diagram of how the apple crusher is made of wood?

@BeardedBored 5 жыл бұрын

I love the way you problem solve! BTW, not sure if you want to make any sweet sparkling hard cider, but if you do I made a video on easy pasteurization to halt the secondary bottle fermentation when your bottles are fully carbonated, but still have some residual sweetness. Cheers:-)>

@lexmark6464 5 жыл бұрын

I have a juicer that does it all for me.

@sebastianmuller1210 4 жыл бұрын

Vitamin C / Ascorbinacid added will stop the oxidaisation which is giving everything the brown color.

@eelcohoogendoorn8044 5 жыл бұрын

Do you add any yeast to it or do the natural ones work well enough around there?

@candisbrendel7396 5 жыл бұрын

OH DOTS PARENTS GARDEN!! REWATCHED IT GOT NUMBER ONE ANSWER HAHAHA NEED TO WATCH BEFORE WE TYPE!! OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T RETIRED NAVY

@CMCrockett 5 жыл бұрын

Uh oh, Dot. We see you.

@selador11 5 жыл бұрын

Dude! In that thumbnail, it looks like you are adding the "secret sauce"... LOL

@truly1676 5 жыл бұрын

Please do a detail video on how you made the apple grinder please.

@maxdecphoenix 5 жыл бұрын

go over to Matthias Wandel's 'Woodgears' channel and look over the apple grinder videos which Kris blatantly stole from didn't give attribution.

@gregormiller4037 5 жыл бұрын

Ohh hey Mr Kris, not sure if I've mentioned this to you before...but check out S/V Seeker. Doug has been build a 70'+ Junk sail boat in his front yard for the last 4-5 years. He built a foundry to make portals etc, his own submarine, its a great site. BUT at the end of each of his posts, he does a few minutes of 'What Did You Make Today' with pictures and descriptions. I think you should send him some pics of you bungalow, and other builds:)

@Quake81270 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe by next year look into someone giving away an old windmill and hook it up instead of the drill place a battery on it to charge or connect it to your current power setup make a little building with your apple smasher in it and a juice presser. All of it ran by windmill or small wind turbine.

@PKMartin 5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the drill was probably charged from the micro hydro plant so it's really a water powered apple smasher :)

@patmurphy389 5 жыл бұрын

i told you that you were a genius w/wood!!!....lol....how long did they take you all to complete, just wondering?

@nick.caffrey 5 жыл бұрын

Did you get a new camera? The video looks so clean.

@elektronekk4306 Жыл бұрын

Bernard beer😍😍

@jaro2450m 4 жыл бұрын

Change for stainless steel screws

@brogenkastl8683 3 жыл бұрын

How did you get the rod to stay in place? Thanks for any comments.

@acidlumin 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve made a similar one recently but with 15mm rod. I made the wood cylinder using lots of discs stacked and just glued it with polyurethane wood glue. No budging it now

@oldtimeengineer26 5 жыл бұрын

umm umm umm good

@srh9893 5 жыл бұрын

what did you use to ferment it?

@nickharvey5149 5 жыл бұрын

What make of press is that Kris, please?

@alexreeve 5 жыл бұрын

skookum apple choocher

@stephenrogers7886 5 жыл бұрын

How's the cider coming on?

@RaulGillett 5 жыл бұрын

How safe have you been with storm Callum? It’s been madness in Carmarthen

@lemagreengreen 4 жыл бұрын

So when are you going to be making your own press? :)

@gordonfrank 2 жыл бұрын

I've heard the seeds add to bitterness.

@daniellepickering3076 5 жыл бұрын

Is all the towns shut off? Are you flooded in?

@pippaseaspirit4415 5 жыл бұрын

Are you going to make applejack from some of the cider, too?

@AirborneTejano 5 жыл бұрын

How many pounds of apples per gallon sir?

@PKMartin 5 жыл бұрын

60 pints of cider? That should keep you going for a while :)

@Katzztar 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone else watching the black cat in the background in the beginning?On the bog bottle, (5 lbs?) how long does that last? I mean does Apple Cider spoil?

@george8873 5 жыл бұрын

Apple cider turns into vinegar when it "spoils". Still usable as a vinegar.

@Katzztar 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, George H., for the answer. How long on average would that take for a bottle at room temp?

@george8873 5 жыл бұрын

@@Katzztar Not sure to be honest, lol. Just know it turns into apple cider vinegar when it goes bad.

@QALibrary 5 жыл бұрын

Question Kris - why did you not put the apples straight into the press?

@valkasolidor6727 5 жыл бұрын

Did you notice how easily the juice came out of the scraps when he squeezed it in his hand? Now imagine squeezing an intact apple by hand. Good luck with that.

@QALibrary 5 жыл бұрын

My thinking behind the question is: First off you doing a number of actions instead of one thing (putting apples in a physical machine crusher) - but adding to that by building and developing a thing to mash up the apples - that takes more time and effort and also losses juice etc in the processing each operation is not 100% efficient (seeing I have not got all the facts I can not work out the effort and crushing pressure of the machine via physics formulas). My Second part, have you lot not heard of physics and law of levers to make more efferent work this is a lot better than squeezing an intact apple by hand that why people invented an apple press? Also not sure why Kris was using one lever to work the press instead of 3, being so out of balance he might have ended up doing more work/effort (not sure about the SI unit/term) where it would have been more beneficial to screw in the other two handles into to press to have full 3 levers working.

@Crewsy 5 жыл бұрын

I am guessing the cider you are doing will be a hard cider since what you have already is fresh natural cider.

@PKMartin 5 жыл бұрын

British people don't call the liquid that comes out of apples "cider", we call it apple juice. "Cider" here implies it's alcoholic, there isn't any other kind of cider.

@Crewsy 5 жыл бұрын

PKMartin There’s the difference then. Cider here in Canada and the USA as well I guess is the fresh squeezed juice from apples where as apple juice is filtered in someway losing taste along the way.

@maxdecphoenix 5 жыл бұрын

@@Crewsy maybe up north, but down on the SE Coast of the US juice is juice, and fermented juice is cider.

@radcow 5 жыл бұрын

Send us a. crafty bottle happy to pay any costs your end 💡 😉

@TJ-wd1bi 5 жыл бұрын

Don't tell me no one else clocked the dead mouse in the bucket at 6:51 ? 😱

@KrisHarbour 5 жыл бұрын

HAHA it does look a bit mouse like......its a leaf

@samuelfellows6923 4 жыл бұрын

😆

@Mrbullydog66 5 жыл бұрын

06:51 looks like a mouse fell out of the press into the apple stuff.......

@KrisHarbour 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a leaf!

@punkbloater 5 жыл бұрын

Anon mouse - it did look like it... and your name... whaaaat? 🤣

@Mrbullydog66 5 жыл бұрын

Great, so it was a non mouse item. :D

@sjames5027 5 жыл бұрын

It's add a little red colour and squeak to the cider.

@daniellepickering3076 5 жыл бұрын

Has it not flooded near you Chris?

@KrisHarbour 5 жыл бұрын

It is flooded around here. all ok where i am though. im nice and high.

@Jezidka 2 жыл бұрын

@@KrisHarbour the mulch could be made into chips. Dehydrator is a thing you're gonna love to make.

@luxurypropertieslondon5098 5 жыл бұрын

Hi kris, just double checking you want any help next week for 4- 5 days. Please let me know ? . I'll help you drink your cider , oops I mean Apple juice lol Regards keiran

@luxurypropertieslondon5098 5 жыл бұрын

Any reply Kris, it's Wales with u or Malta lol. I'll be booking the holiday tomorrow if I don't get a reply . Hope to hear back soon