How to make cider

[@sjo7erd942]

Finally a step by step with actual apples. Thanks!

[@clintonpharoah1169]

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.

[@davegoulson6831]

Agreed :)

[@stephenbethell7548]

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

[@firstnamelastname-uq9hr]

Ummmm, sounds very yummy to me,enjoy making and drinking it, have one for me!

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

Maybe you can take it to the Ukraine front with you...

[@freshoil1]

@@stevesmodelbuilds5473 what a stupid effing thing to say. you obviously listen to CNN for your info. You're an idiot.

[@freshoil1]

You are very blessed. Enjoy!

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

@@freshoil1 Touched a nerve there, did I? 😏This was a year ago, so he's probably already been conscripted and even more probably dead -- for Putin and the oligarchs...

[@barkebaat]

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 !

[@scottobrien3484]

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 😊

[@MisterCreamyDude]

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!

[@smithy1578]

The old timers didn’t even rinse them and they lived well into their 90s

[@ronaldlee2376]

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.

[@beccal7950]

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.

[@davegoulson6831]

Hope it goes well!

[@beccal7950]

@@davegoulson6831 the batch just finished yesterday, and it tasted really interesting! In a good way. Nothing like store bought. Kind of like a lambic beer. It’s possible that the cider wasn’t sweet because it was slightly over-fermented? Or maybe the wild yeast gave it the taste? Also, the sugar content of the wild apples was probably lower than a proper cider apple. Definitely worth a repeat next year.

[@lantrick]

@@beccal7950 FWIW the "lambic" sour taste could be from active Lactobacillus cultures consuming sugar and creating Lactic Acid. Additionally there could be wild yeast contributing to the off flavors. This method would be prone to either.

[@ironix1]

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

[@davegoulson6831]

You're very welcome!

[@fiddesc]

What a super video! Love it!!!

[@PoWeR2thePeOpLe999]

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

[@Baggyarse]

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.

[@growitbuildit]

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

[@janelloyd4332]

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

[@giusax89]

I feel so silly now I'm reading your wonderful book "A buzz in the meadow", that I watched this video ages ago without having any idea about your work. Thanks for both!

[@mutantryeff]

I purchased 900 pounds of Golden Bosc pears for $200 on 10/14/2024. I juiced about 35 gallons from less than half of them. The rest I gave to friends, family, neighbors, etc. I have eight experimental pear ciders going. I'm an award winning homebrewer (mostly lagers - last two golds were for Eisbocks). In the past year, I've transitioned to meads and ciders.

[@scottwoodford1624]

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

[@scottperine8027]

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.

[@vincentpfinlay4111]

Excellent Tutorial 🍻 cheers

[@1cmrover928]

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

[@simonbray1792]

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!

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[@zaynniko5545]

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[@michaelsteyn]

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

[@garethwalters2771]

Thanks

[@cheryl6404]

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

[@nacholibre1962]

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.

[@TheUKGoonie]

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

[@philt5782]

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

[@TheWoodlandpixie]

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

[@gunpowderboardgames]

I have a huge cooking apple tree and every year they all drop and rot, not this year! i'm going to follow your steps and wow the family with my apple cider! Thanks

[@igenr8]

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

[@davegoulson6831]

Glad it was helpful!

[@johnclancy4383]

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?

[@melvyniandrag]

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

[@msobhi826]

Very nice , greeting from Egypt

[@creatingginypigs2909]

Great information, thanks for sharing.

[@cameronmilne5319]

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

[@colalola007]

Great video and lovely narration.

[@jali1356]

thankyou- awesome video!

[@frankcook9328]

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.

[@darkiepoo8949]

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.

[@salinaaktherliza9380]

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

[@davegoulson6831]

You are most welcome

[@rckint]

Direct, concise information! Thank you sir!

[@davegoulson6831]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gwilliams6601]

Thanks for the great tips Daniel Craig

[@lordelpus2099]

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

[@maxheslop2890]

great video!

[@margaretcunningham7146]

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

[@freedomforestlife]

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.

[@richardcarr7557]

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

[@gnosov]

How lovely it is.

[@williampalacio9980]

MR G WELL WELL LET ME TELL YOU,, YOU REALLY CONVINCED ME ABOUT THIS PRODUCT,, CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS A LOT ,, THAT WAS. NICE FROM AUSTRALIA WITH LOVE ,TO YOU ALL,,

[@aquarius5264]

LMAO CHILL OUT DUDE

[@daanvandenbergh6944]

Apples and yeast. Brilliant!

[@IPman77]

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

[@kroneditor9266]

Excellent! Thanks!

[@greg6107]

Congrats old boy, brilliant!

[@Julian-ck6lf]

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

[@leemace1237]

Great video 👍

[@WalterWhite-pr1qs]

Enjoyed the video 👍

[@TeeTeeKoffee]

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.)

[@OriginalMudSlinger]

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

[@TROPIKALBOOM]

Fantastic🎉!

[@davegoulson6831]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@awtphoto]

quality video, very informative!

[@davegoulson6831]

Much appreciated!

[@collenmathebula6479]

I've learnt something here thanks

[@mathewwebb522]

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!?

[@leeridgard7472]

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.

[@SteveRestall]

I chuck it all into my brew and it turns out ok, even bruised apples are good

[@CrimeVid]

good grief you don’t chop apples ! you build a press powerful enough to crush them. But seriously, on this scale you probably do need to chop them, but life is not long enough to carefully examine each piece of apple !

[@David-ss8hu]

Thx for vid what is shelf life

[@skitzochik]

its fizzy too?

[@broxmouth]

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

[@mrradman2986]

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.

[@smithy1578]

Clean it up and use it if the gears and everything aren’t rusted up

[@mrradman2986]

@@smithy1578 I now have 5 demijohns quietly fermenting in the cellar! A mix of apples from the garden and some unidentified but promising looking variety from a hole on my golf course. I'm thinking the next step will be to combine them in one large 25 litre container after the fermentation stops before adding some more sugar and bottling. My press is small but if I completely fill it with pulp I get enough juice to fill one demijohn. The biggest issue was crushing the apples, I used a fence post and a large plastic bucket. If this works next year I'm going to invest in a crusher.

[@Marie579]

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

[@davegoulson6831]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@suewright1299]

Another really great video Dave, very many thanks indeed.

[@vince6299]

HI Dave, great video can you tell me what alcohol percent this cider is. ?

[@Nurturingnature1]

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

[@djxjxixsmjxjskjzxn1853]

The bottle exploded because it hadn't fully fermented before you bottled it. A cheap hydrometer will tell you if fermentation is done. If you want the drink to have a little sparkle then you add a amount of sugar - qtr teasoon max - to each bottle before you seal them, then leave for at least a week.

[@andygrayson7485]

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 ? ✌

[@j.rhysdavies1816]

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

[@putradnyana]

Amazing dave

[@stavrosgiannaros7041]

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.

[@gee3883]

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

[@riadsaid3790]

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

[@davegoulson6831]

I hope that one day you too have your dream!

[@DanielDM3]

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?

[@nikkola1965]

Simple and easy. Cheers .

[@trevoryorke8128]

What press do you use

[@alexthompson8307]

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?

[@johntimbrell]

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.

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

You know the truth. Adding yeast to raw fruit is no benefit as it will not be able to compete against the natural occurring yeasts in the region. Only necessary if you cooked your fruit or used poison cambden tablets to kill the natural regional yeasts first. Smart you are.

[@elaineknight8126]

Just wondered why you dont line the press with a muslin cloth or run the juice through a sieve before putting into the fermenting buckets

[@davegoulson6831]

It just takes more time, and anyway the bits settle out during fermentation.

[@1066Kitchen]

Great video and very informative, how much alcohol % would that be with out adding sugar.

[@davegoulson6831]

About 4-5%

[@jamslockyer]

All depends on the initial natural sugar content. Proper cider apples have loads and can hit 7%+ easily

[@davidtkocz8356]

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

[@aginger888]

Cheers mate. Simple and easy

[@premmanku751]

Thx pal great vid straight to the pint /point lol

[@probablecausetocheckhard-drive]

use to work at a place that had orchard that's was disused ; could of made loads. what's percentage are these ciders?

[@blackcountrysteamvideos8021]

Deffinetly gonna have a go at this

[@bradbartlett2663]

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

[@davegoulson6831]

Please do!

[@ConstanceMarkiewicz]

Thanks for this! Can I ask how you siphon that end product? Just a length of piping?

[@davegoulson6831]

Yes, just clear plastic piping, about 10 mm diameter

[@ConstanceMarkiewicz]

@@davegoulson6831 Thanks! I'm all set and ready to go. No scratter though so chipping them all by hand...ugh!

[@deardaughter]

You’re the coolest guy on the internet.

[@cinderella3414]

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.

[@ronaldlee2376]

Use variety of Red Delicious, Jonathans. Melrose, etc. using all red apples far out produces green apples & taste is not affected. Do not use sour/rotten fruit & rinse heavily with clear cold water. btw you want a bare minimum of stems/leaves as this does alter quality.

[@stardust5379]

port barrels are best for fermentation

[@bradleycooper5436]

is using air locks vs using cheese cloth necessary

[@davegoulson6831]

Cheese cloth isn't quite as good as it allows oxygen and some bugs through

[@2394Joseph]

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

[@julianwilliams4750]

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

[@susangoddard9257]

I don't have any gadgets, would freezing the apples first help with the process of chopping and pressing?

[@bradbartlett2663]

Sorry to ask a stupid question but does that process come out fizzy or so you need to do something to make it fizzy?

[@davegoulson6831]

To make it fizzy you have to bottle it with half a teaspoon of sugar.

[@hawkmoon1704]

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?