Finally a step by step with actual apples. Thanks!

Cheers ! I really enjoyed that :-) I have a silly dream ... ... of moving out of my home town, Oslo (Norway), after my old mother passes away, and use my small inheritance to build a modest wood-shop to my own design (I'm a furniture maker by trade, traditional / historical solid-wood windows & doors pay the bills, and sometimes I even get to make a nice piece of furniture, too :-) in the Hardanger fjord on the western coast - where they grow fruit and apples, I love apples ! And there I will grow some vegetables, berries & whatever else I might manage, perhaps keep some chickens, fish in the fjord and feed a cat. And then I will make cider ! And why not wine from berries ? Wouldn't that be something ? Thanks for making this video !

Thanks 😊 I’m in Russia and now have an orchard . I’ve ordered a fully comprehensive press kit which will arrive next week . Can’t wait to get started . Organic cider 🍺 Cheers

The best thing I've seen on line about making cider. Too many people try to complicate what is basically a very straightforward process. You don't need loads of chemicals or even to know the strength of it really. As long as it tastes good and hits the spot, that's good enough for me.

What a super video! Love it!!!

I've got appples in my yard that are so sour even the bugs won't touch them. Toss them through the juicer and it's delicious.

thank you. here's the therapy i need after coming across another video of someone pressure-cooking 5 apples, peeled oranges, and lemon slices in a vat of water for 3 hours.

Been making Cider off & on for 57 years. I too pick up apples off ground if they appear ok, but I keep those separate from picked fruit, rinse thoroughly to avoid chance of feces from animals passing through. Same using ladder for picking, always keep hands on center of rungs to avoid what you track on outside of ladder rungs. Red apples produce much more than green. For a smooth, sweet taste, add green pears. Only problem, it adds more sugar. Last, I was always inundated with large amounts of "Yellow Jackets" attracted to the feast.Did not see any insects on your vid. Good job.

Many thanks, nice and simple guide rather than a 40 odd minute one with a hundred different steps and conflicting advice. Especially like the total lack of any cleanliness/hygiene steps! Cheers!

The best cider making video I’ve seen. Many thanks.

Cheers! A great and down to earth, simple demo of how to do it the ol' fashioned way! Will be trying this soon!

Fabulous DIY video Mr G. You are truly a Renaissance Man. Thanks - you have inspired me to do this with my apples. (Graham White).

Many thanks for the most straightforward easy way to make cider..no added chemicals or even sugar. Most definitely going to give this a go

We followed your instructions last year to make our own cider for the first time….it worked perfectly! Best cider we’d ever tasted!! About to make some more this year…thank you for the video, very useful 😊

Loved the video, thank you. Cant wait to get to making some fab cider!

An excellent, concise, informative and rewarding video. Thanks for showing how it should be done and what we can obtain relatively simply.

Brilliant! I've been looking for a channel for cider like this for ages.

Thanks Dave Keeping it real ! No nonsense no frills brilliant.

Another really great video Dave, very many thanks indeed.

Excellent Tutorial 🍻 cheers

Very informative and delicious,I had a apple orchard near me growing up and the Cider Barrel was my most favorite place,cider is a lifestyle.

Fantastic video - thank you. I’m having a go at cider making this year

I agree. Great video. Very clear speaking. Great sense of humor and a great information. Thank you

Great information, thanks for sharing.

Excellent clear video. Going to give it a go. Thanks

This was so much fun to watch. I want to try this now! God bless you.

Since this summer I’ve been keeping an eye on some beautiful wild apple trees that grow by the roadside near our home in Massachusetts. Just harvested a boatload of them yesterday and will process them tomorrow! Thank you for making this video and inspiring the confidence to try this out for the first time! Nature and pollinators are amazing.

This was very good video. To the point, just the facts, and a little bit of personal experience and observations sprinkled in. Thank you.

I'm going to try this with apples put through a juicer this year. Good video thank you

7:42 No pun intended 🤣. Great video. Thanks so much for sharing. I have just bought a small farm in Alberta, Canada and discovered some very nice apple trees, as well as lots of raspberries bushes, Saskatoon berry bushes and choke cherry trees. So I am planning to make a lot of cider this fall.

Thank you for the video, easy to follow for a complete novice like myself.

Fantastic. Well presented and it filled in some gaps in my knowledge (add yeast for better success rate). The juice is, as you say, so much better than what you get in the shop.

Direct, concise information! Thank you sir!

You have inspired me to make my own cider, I have a few apple trees (Bramleys) and nobody eats them in our house, so might as well drink them.

Great video and lovely narration.

Love the video! You're living the dream. Cheers.

How lovely it is.

Excellent! Thanks!

Thanks for the great tips Daniel Craig

thankyou- awesome video!

Great Video 👍

Very informative, thanks! For some reason I am thirsty now.

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Very heplful 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️! Thanks from Bangladesh 🇧🇩

Simple and easy. Cheers .

Excellent video Dave going to do this in the autumn get about 150kg of apples every year that just get wasted cheers!

Many thanks for this - we’ve bought a crusher and press for collective use in the village - trial run with some of our own apples tomorrow. Cheers for the useful advice!

Cheers mate. Simple and easy

Larger versions of this shredder shed cars! LOL and excellent sound effects, great video thx

Enjoyed the video 👍

Apples and yeast. Brilliant!

Congrats old boy, brilliant!

I bee a cider maker!! Well done you! I used to make elder flower 'champagne', until a plastic bottle exploded! Looking at the video I expect it was carbon dioxide, but that was beautiful when done correctly. I expect yours tastes beautiful. Cheers! George

great video!

Fantasic video. I'm too late this year, but 2023 I'll be making a start on the ol' zider.

Very nice , greeting from Egypt

Great video 👍

Thank you so much...I will try your technique

quality video, very informative!

Thanks for this great video, we just got a 23l vat going about 10 days ago after watching your vid, but just with the natural yeast... It starting fermenting great in just 2 days and has been bubbling away, foaming up great and smelling of apples .. but 2 days ago its all went cloudy, foam gone and smells a little salpher-y now, still bubbling constantly in the airlock .... is this a normal part of the process, or should be worried... keep finding conflicted info, or situations that don't quite match ours online, so thought we'd ask, as your vid was so clear and simple ... we haven't racked it off or stirred to air it, which I'm wondering if we should by some of info coming across??? Your experience/opinion would be much appreciated.

a very credible vid thumbs up from me well done and I bet that the cider tastes amazing very informative for those who want to listen and learn how to make their own amazing cider from there gardens . JUST A WARNING you will get very drunk on this home brew

I'm drooling, just watching this. Slainte mhath a charaid.

Thats how its done. Great job. Yeast dies somewhere 60 C, or something like that. So if you want to make your cider sweet and spracling you need to add sugar at the end (there's special sugars for this for those who want to make everything extra complicated). Then let the cider brew for a few more days to create the carbons, and then kill the yeast, for example by heating, to disarm the bombs :) (use indicatior botle, so you actually heat the cider in your botles to that 60 and not just the botles out sides. Indicator botle is identical botle filled with water and has no cap so you can actually measure the temp of the liquid inside it.)

Just watched this contemplating trying out the press I've had sitting in the shed for a few years with never the time to use it until now. It's late August and the apples are almost ready...Thanks for the motivation.

Top man I'll be giving this a blast, hic.

Fantastic🎉!

I've learnt something here thanks

Amazing dave

Thank you . I like this vid. I’m gonna give it a try .

Love your style and the sense of humour. There's not quite as much emphasis on sterilisation or the use of sulphite to kill unwanted yeast activity etc. as you usually see in such videos! I guess that dependent on your location, its possible to get away with a less "fussy" approach. I am about to move into a house with 4 established 100 year old Bramley trees that still crop heavily and I intend to take up cider making. Your video is therefore exactly what I was looking for. The books suggest that a predominantly cooking apple based brew would benefit from some tannin to give it more body and from some carbonate to tone down the acid a bit. I'm guessing that you are going to tell me that messing around like that is fine for other people, but that you like what you make from what's already in the garden?

Great video Dave, thanks. Is there a yeast g -> ml ratio that you use? I reckon I'll only have a small 5 litre load of apple juice

Thx pal great vid straight to the pint /point lol

This a brilliant video Dave with knowledge that has been built over years of practice and hard ship id imagine. Could you please tell me where did you get your fruit press and your fruit mincer?

'' dubious urine sample'' 😆lovely video. Cheers.

Most apples have a natual yeast or yeast even floats in the air. I let mine turn into cider vinergar which I love. I use an old waste disposal unit to break up the apples. Note: take your time over pressing . If Dave had left the press when it got hard and then come back 1/2 hour later he would find it got easier. I leave my last pressing overnight. There is no rush because the crushed apples actually improve if left for the few days when one is pressing.

2:42 What an excellent splash sound

Deffinetly gonna have a go at this

Failed to mention, i fill new plastic jugs just below neck, freeze without mess. I have Cider in freezer for 5 years, thaw a gallon, keep refrigerated. This remains apple juice as no fermentation occurs.

Great vid. cheers. Essentially it's processed and enjoyed like wine. Completely uncarbonated. That'll take some getting used to if you're a shop sold cider drinker. Guessing you could bottle it adding the sugar to fizz it up!?

Great video Dave. Cheers. Do I understand correctly you don't pasteurise your apple juice? You just dump it fresh from the press without any processing into the fermentation vessel?

Many thanks for this...what size press is that please?

Thanks mate. Cheers 🍻

Hi Dave. Great video. Very informative. I’m making some cider now and using you way of doing it. Very simple. Quick question though, when chopping and adding your apples do you not bother checking for bugs? I’ve got windfalls and found plenty of bugs in mine so threw those out.

depends on the Tanin of the apple, some single verities need more yeast. proper Cider varieties like, Red Streak, Kingston Black ( difficult variety, but better results) is key, blended varieties do the job for you, if not available, after the first fermentation, bottle, and add 1/4 teaspoon of caster sugar, to add a slight carbonation, after 4 weeks.

What a life you have i wish i have money to get house om the cointryside with chicken and little animals with farm to grow some veg n fruit lovly life and make cider for the year

"It looks like a rather dubious urine sample..." Lol.

Thank you for the video, no frills just the nity gritty. Could I do this with cold press juicer? Anyone know?

Hi thinking of getting one of theses presses from Vigo. Do you not need to use a cheese type cloth or can you just do away with this completely. Cheers Julian

Hahahaha... I make cider and I'm getting ready for this years pressing...just thought I'd watch a few vids as I do most years to get me in the mood. Get to the end and saw the book cover...hadn't made the connection until then. Really enjoyed the book a few years ago..thanks. Can we have one on wasps please?

You’re the coolest guy on the internet.

What Alcohol percentage can you expect your home produce to be? i know home made can be quite strong. My nan used to tell me stories of when she would help her dad in the field. she took 2 or 3 mouthfuls of her dads homemade and would be almost out cold.

I’m about to buy a masher/grinder and a press. What size press would you recommend, & what is the name of the yeast you use?

nice!

The cleanest and only organic apples l have seen on the internet. I like the fact you found a green apple instead of those nasty sweet Macintosh apples. My parents had one tree that produced perfect green apples for everything. I believe it was called "Orchard" apples. The best! Yours sound and look nice and green and crunchie. ❤ great video and more sanitary than others.

We’ve got 25 litres of pressed apple juice. Could you advise how much yeast we should add?

Terrific channel thanks. Your BEE SAMPLES ARE WONDERFUL. YOU KNOW YOUR POLLINATORS ALSO ? I had used an apple press IN A HISTORIAN HOUSE seasonally. And like to do more about the apples in my neck of the woods. Deer and other creatures need them aswell in the season. CHEERS, A BEVERAGE FOR CHAMPIONS

The jokes were as good as the instructions. Cheers from Canada

Excellent work....my neighbour has a huge apple tree, does nothing with the apples but complain.....ill try it with these although ive no idea of the type ? ✌

Is it safe to leave the juice to ferment in 2l bottles with the cap slightly undone so they Co2 can still escape?

Excellent. I reckon there's nothing quite like an apple fed worm that gets pressed into the juice.