Making Cider With Our Homegrown Apples And Surprise Guests!

[@kentishbunyip6081]

Yes please to more brewing videos! Thanks to your videos, "refreshing beverage" and "wine appreciation area" have now entered our own vocabulary. 😁 Loved seeing the chickens flock to the apple pulp bounty.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Love it!! Think we need to find some new phrase to use 😀

[@barriegannon3572]

I love the diverse nature of the videos you guys give us, wether it’s building, planting, harvesting or getting tipsy in the alcohol appreciation corners 😂😂😂

[@eaudeborrajas7822]

Greetings from Spain! You might like to try our ciders. One of the most famous is from the Asturias region. It is sparkling and sweet. The other is from the Basque Country region: it is not sparkling and is sour (it is my favourite). I hope you can make small trips of exploration to the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, to sister Spain.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Ohh, we’ll definitely keep an eye out on our next Spain trip 😀

[@paulwilliams7516]

I really love the Asturias ciders, really sad that Portugal does not make similar ones as they have the climate and apples.

[@alanwakefield2453]

I made a fruit picker from a spray bottle with the bottom cut off and a V cut in the side, this was then mounted on one of those extendable paint roller poles, you slide it over the fruit getting the stalk at the bottom of the V give a bit of a twist and off it comes. So good for getting those top fruits. I tried it with a water bottle first but decided the spray bottle was more robust.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

We actually have one made from aluminium that goes on the end of a broom handle, just forgot to use it 😂

[@closerbgood]

Hello from Texas 🍾 love your cooking, gardening, well come to think of it, all your videos!

[@marianela111]

My 70 year old grandma just walked in and listened for a bit and said ooo look at that Portuguese Scrumpy 😂😂😂

[@AbigailGerlach-zt1sh]

My mum would say, "Just brush off the bugs. If one or two fall in, it's extra protein!" My mother was one of those "glass half full" women that WWII England produced. She was admirable and annoying at the same time! Too bad you don't have pigs. Great food for pigs! Do chickens like apples? I presume so. I love your brewing videos. Do some more!

[@nomikopp387]

We used to prune our trees way back to an umbrella type shape which makes harvesting easier. Also the fruit gets more air and light.

[@arabellakarrington8211]

I love all your videos, making brew was lots of fun to watch as well as the renovations.

[@carolbulmer8253]

Good morning, Kylie and Guy. It was fun to watch the whole cider making process. Your sister and her mate are real troopers. Seeing each of your cats make an appearance was bonus❤️❤️

[@flowersflowers473]

Noticed that too🤓- it’s rare we see the cats, so was a lovely treat!

[@helenmenzies9488]

Kept waiting for the bye in the background!

[@reginaihernandez8901]

Thank you for sharing! Loved this video!

[@avivat3010]

It's great to see how you make apple cider. The feeling of taking food produced on your land and turning it into something special that you can consume gives you a great sense of accomplishment. Even better if it's tasty and a refreshing beverage! I enjoy any post you produce, with thanks. They're always very entertaining.

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

In the US, especially in areas that grow a lot of apples (NE, northern Midwest, NW), most cider is consumed fresh, not fermented. It is a great family outing taking the children out to an apple orchard where they can pick their own apples and ride in a wagon pulled by a tractor ! After that, they can watch apples being pressed and making apple cider. You can buy cider raw, right off the press ! (What you get in stores is pasteurized so it won't ferment.) Great with fresh baked goods like hot, cinnamon sugar donuts. Where I live, there still a few water powered cider mills that are over 100 years old.

[@gracealonso275]

Good to see you are getting on with such pressing matters

[@kdclothes]

Thanks for taking us on the process.

[@OnaMuir]

Avoiding the bathroom finish? 🤣 Grand interjection. 🥰

[@jenniferbennett9602]

My favourite is dry cloudy cider. Well done!

[@user-ho3dk4pg8y]

I used to make wine, in my younger years, so I found this really interesting and fun to watch. Thank you!

[@claudineclaudinehamon2300]

Oh, over the 100000!!!

[@ronk4073]

You are correct about back sweetening. I've been making ciders and fruit wines for 10 years, and a little bit of sugar really improves fruit favor. It's like salt in soup. No salt and soup is bland. The right amount of salt and all the other flavors pop. Not so much that the soup tastes salty. Just enough to enhance the other flavors. The same is true with fruit wines, particularly apple. A lot of the "flavor" of apple is sugar. Another thing you might want to try is a "small cider." Thats where you add some water to the pressed apple pulp (or any fruit pommace) and press a second time. You may have extracted all the juice, but you did not extract all the sugar and flavor. A second pressing generally yields about half the abv as the first. So if your first pressing got you 7.5% abv, a second pressing would get you 3.25%. You could ferment that as it is, and make a very light and refreshing alcoholic beverage, or blend it with the first pressing instead of water and get the abv down to 5.375%, plus more flavor than just plain water. Something to think about. Good luck!

[@Matryoshka26]

The kitty at the end wanted attention haha

[@JohnnyMotel99]

I make an apple compote with my apple haul. It gets frozen into handy sized chunks and is used through the winter for crumbles, addition to yoghurt, porridge etc.

[@dawnfitzgerald2951]

Looked like fun making the cider. Thanks fr sharing.❤️🇨🇦

[@marilynlautner2454]

This was fun!! I’m glad I got to see the process!!

[@marcob1729]

Working a manual press has kept me perennially on the lookout for a used hydro press. They work magic

[@grahamalastairkrebs2241]

Thanks for fast forward. 🙌🙌

[@salscycleshop3416]

That was so fun to watch the whole process with the taste test at the end. Looks delicious 😋

[@MarianneInmarsilia]

Cheers !

[@curioponics]

Love the homebrew videos!

[@rachelfrees1268]

Your land is showing off with its riches. How blessed. The ladies were lots of fun. We use to make Cider on our farm in Virginia, USA. It was a joint venture of 3/4 farmers. Bye Bye.🎉

[@vickihoneycutt456]

Lot of work but we'll Wirth out come. Fun having family helping and enjoying results. Tasting best part.

[@glenyscallaghan1195]

Plenty of feed back from everyone .😄⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@Aotruba]

Such a delight to watch the process of apple cider and an amazing result! 👍😊👍🌟

[@whatranch]

Thanx for the inspirational video!

[@TeresaBell-ou1cz]

You sure have an investment in equipment, hope much success in your adventure . Niagara 🇨🇦

[@eggtool54]

Absolutely amazing looks fantastic ...upwards & onwards X

[@johnmccormick-fl1pg]

Outstanding video, I enjoy the gardening , but love the “Refreshing Beverage” process. From harvest to production, and especially the sampling. I know nothing about the process, except the tasting. Fairly good at that, keep them coming !

[@grahamlees4394]

I was expecting your on screen comment to say some tame has p1ssed after all that alcohol 🤣

[@rowandowland1391]

We'd say that's a success... great cider shouldn't be too sweet... keeping the sugar content low is the way to go!

[@kassy6373]

Interesting bottle washer! Fun episode.

[@jenniferstrachan7084]

Wow a really interesting and enjoyable vlog Thank you I just love watching you using all of your produce You are both so skill full 😊

[@maeveskelly4686]

Loved the video. You have a great family Guy. It looked fun to make (hard work too) so glad it was worth the effort.

[@Mandy_wv8st1cb2k]

Great video!

[@sherry2836]

Always fun when the ladies visit; cute, funny, intelligent and great hair! Will you plant different apple trees that produce cider apples?

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Yes, we’ve got a list of both apple and pear varieties that we want to plant solely for cider making. Just have to find somewhere to source them (hoping that will be in the next 3-4 months)

[@Aotruba]

I forgot to mention - Guy, your sister has gorgeous hair! I wish I had hair like hers...😊

[@nickfosterxx]

Fluff up a few of the pressed cakes and re-press. Was definitely worth the extra effort with the English apples I had. (Mostly Bramleys, sigh.)

[@chasethesunriseportugal]

Do all the things! We'll watch it!

[@j.n.sloane]

The sidra in Asturias is also not carbonated, like yours turned out, and you have to pour it from a height in order to aerate it. The serving you drink is a culin (pronounced coo-leen'), that is the small amount that you drink immediately before the aeration subsides. The flavor of the sidra is not sweet but tart and dry and sneaky (between 4 and 6 % alcohol). It's an acquired taste, but I love it. The Basques also make this type of cider and serve it the same way. Check out the videos on how Asturianos pour sidra. It's very cool. Saludos desde Asturias.

[@shehazi695]

Im probably not the onLy viewer that had crush-press-brew-taste envy.. 🍻

[@Robin-f8w]

The ladies were awesome and need to come back! 😂

[@jeanhawken4482]

It was fun to make and drinkable

[@delphine88313]

I made apple cidar vinegar from some organic apples I purchased from the store . It came out great for my first try.

[@naticongored]

תודה ❤❤❤

[@anneliesemodeker2104]

You can take the left overs + water to make apple-cidre.

[@Bobrogers99]

Successful cider requires having the right equipment. You've experimented making wine from a variety of vegetables, which seemed a little less complicated.

[@natvgerkin]

A quick technical note, your voice over volume has been quite low in the last two videos, it may just be me, but maybe worth a listen as it is usually spot on in your mix.

[@marcob1729]

I tell all of my friends to not use wine yeast with cider. I've never had it go properly. Adding yeast nutrient and doing, of all things, a British ale yeast has netted me the best results!

[@royzilko2523]

Apple cider really benefits from using cider yeast to add the correct esters to the flavor profile. Mangrove Jack yeast improves the flavor by miles.

[@sroberts605]

When I think about doing this, I look at all the kit you need and wimp out! I wonder where the press is kept so that it stays clean?

[@ankiking]

Trimming your apple trees should give you better crops (and easier to reach) in a couple of years :) ❤ Great to watch the process!

[@joannegreig9231]

Hello from the Pacific Ocean in Waldport, Oregon. I ❤ cider and always order it on my world travels. I really enjoyed watching your vlog today! Great teamwork! While visiting the UK & Ireland in 2015 I found Jack Slattery's Premium Irish Cider. It was perfect, dry but not too sweet. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in Ireland the summer 2023😢. I think they might have gone out of business.😢😢

[@paulwilliams7516]

Enjoyed the video as I have been experimenting in cider production myself and I am having mixed success, I have used many different supermarket supplied pure apple juice and they vary from good to just about ok. I am now going to do a lot more control of what I am using to try to get a more consistent product, I have put some Malic acid in to help with the apple flavour.

[@kayemahoney8640]

Leave the cider a few months and it usually mellows into a better drink, well that's what I found. 👍

you came to the right country to brew! hic! an arrangement with a neighbour for some grapes in exchange for the help picking them would do the trick! stay sober (if you can!), stay strong 🤠😎

[@chillnophone2024]

I made apple cakes and froze them in slices. I didn't consider cider, maybe next time now that I know a little bit❣️

[@perunut4656]

I'm wodering if the 7% unwatered down version would have tasted any different? Or just the same but resulting in a bad headache? Great vlog

[@miriammuskal5402]

Hale hale the gangs all here cider tasting

[@hawkmoon1704]

More brewing stuff please :) and why not try natural brewing of of cider using just the natural yeast present on the skins, can do a taste test of natural vs bought yeast maybe

[@farmyourbackyard2023]

In the US, cider is pressed apples, and fermented cider is called hard cider. Apple juice is filtered pressed apples. I'd love to know what product you could have produced if you had not added water to it. Maybe that could be an experiment for another year! Also, that bottle washer is a game changer and I need one for kombucha brewing.

[@sandracook455]

Lovely

[@nickfosterxx]

Can you kill the yeast and add say 30% apple juice, to both sweeten, add body, and reduce the abv? And then lightly carbonate somehow?

[@sarahnd]

My son makes "natural" cider (and wine) in California from the local apples (and grapes) and never adds anything - no yeast, no sugar... and it's very tasty! Is there some reason why you felt you had to add those to your mix?

[@grahamsfarmportugal2022]

I'll drink to that 😂😂

[@scotty6435]

Can you fill up the hopper fully then turn it on? Those agitators make me think the weight of apples on top is supposed to keep things from bouncing up. Fully packing the juicer will reduce time wasted. Those blocks are there to allow you to press further down than the initial loading will allow

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Unfortunately the machine won’t turn on when full of fruit. It’s really a grape crusher (and works well when full of grapes), so we think it’s not designed for the weight of apples. Might try and find something more suitable in the future

[@isabelfarist221]

❤❤❤

[@rausdpm]

The 'smashing' machine should not be on when you drop grapes or apples! You turn it on when it's full of fruit. That's why you have those scoops to release the pressure from the top fruit, and the machine operates normally.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Unfortunately that is not the case with our machine. It doesn’t turn on if loaded with fruit

[@JorgeSantos-wq2ph]

Good morning, can you explain to me why I'm listening to your channel in Brazilian? I'm Portuguese and I prefer to listen in English.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

KZbin rolled out a new auto-dubbing feature a little while back. Seems to only affect TVs as far as we know, so you could try watching on a desktop or digital device

[@derekmulready1523]

Drink. Drink Drink. Why reduce the Alcohol Strength. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@cindyg5969]

You may want to invest in a few harvesting aprons, you will be way more efficient and not bruise your fruit dropping them.

[@ClaireWhelan-s8l]

Have you plans to cut back the apple trees a little..bit of tlc perhaps? Give them a boost of energy for next apple season. They must have been little neglected if the farm and house were sitting unloved till ye arrived in the gate....p.s. Looking at the work that goes into the cider process. There may be a lot to be said for heading to shop or bar to buy a bottle or two of cider....😂..joking of course. And I a non drinker of alcoholic beverages..😅... Question..have you tried your cider in your cooking?

[@portugaldreamzzz920]

Forget smelly vision. Tasty vision please. 😂

[@louisesemrani6860]

CHEERS 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🐨❤️🦘

[@stephenbird9714]

make, do, grow, DRINK.

[@BlackJesus8463]

brown sugar

[@fabrizionaturalli6518]

i dont know why but the video got translate and i really prefer the original sound

[@taniadevilliers348]

❤🎉

[@dianalamm9938]

it would be good to have a sling bag.....but my comment is late, lol?

[@matthewgordon-clark2392]

Nothing like having family help, if you will forgive the question "which lady is your sister, the one in red or in blue"?

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Emma is the sister, in red 😀

[@marisa01082012]

Porquê?..😳 Por que é que os vossos diálogos (salvo as vossas gargalhadas 😄🙏) estão em português so-le-tra-do por adolescentes brasileiros?!!!... 😏🤭Até que seria interessante ouvir-vos falar português (de Portugal), quem sabe, um destes dias....,mas fazendo uso do vosso aparelho vocal 😲☺ Adorei, como sempre, ver-vos brincar de "casal Frankenstein", agora na produção de Sidra, 😆 e do vosso bom humor Já agora, antigamente os agricultores tinham macieiras cujas maçãs eram usadas para alimentar porcos 🐷 mas ainda assim eram muito aromáticas e saborosas, embora pequenas Até ao próximo vídeo 👋

[@betisa5187]

Why are your videos now dubbed with Brazilian Portuguese?

[@MAKEDOGROW]

It’s a new YT feature, you should be able to change it in your settings

[@Helen-uw3pu]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem but lately when I click onto your videos you are speaking Spanish and I then have to go into settings and change the language to US Engish.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

This is the result of a new YT feature. You should be able to set your default language do that you don’t have to keep changing the setting

[@ribaldc3998]

Just like in biblical times: Women pick the apples

[@ew1hoastesned]

Hello, again a nice video from you, but with a big downer, why do I suddenly no longer hear your beautiful own voices, but an AI voice that speaks at much too fast speed, please change that again, because I really miss your voices! Warm greetings from Germany sends Elke W. Thanks for answering, sorry, but it's not true that it only occurs on the TV, I watch your videos on the laptop, but whatever. Let's hope it becomes available on YT soon...🙏

[@MAKEDOGROW]

The auto-dubbing is a new YT feature, nothing to do with us. As far as we know it’s only affecting some people and only on TVs. Try using a mobile device or desktop. There should be a settings feature to turn off the dubbing but people have reported it missing, so hopefully YT will fix it soon

[@romanamuhr8986]

The AI translation in german is terrible!! It is not possible to switch off the translation. I always enjoyed it in english.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

It is a new YT feature which seems to only affect TVs. You should have no problems on a desktop or digital device

[@romanamuhr8986]

Unfortunately, it is the same on a laptop and Samsung tablet. I hope I can watch it again in English at some point. Unfortunately, the translation also lacks authenticity. Because I like hearing the voices of the two of you.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

@ strange! Here is the YT instructions on how to change language, maybe this will help but others have said that English is missing as an option

[@MAKEDOGROW]

@ another option to try is to turn off auto-translate in your CC settings (just read that in a Reddit forum)

[@ingridsassenhagen5226]

You could add some oak chips next time to give it a bit of earthy flavor.

[@MariaMartins-fl1rn]

why the translation I do prefer English please

[@MAKEDOGROW]

It is a new YT feature which seems to only affect TVs. You should have no problems on a desktop or digital device

[@texnoti]

Fun to try make your own. Pear?

[@gustavosimoes4509]

Sory, but, you must change for english uk, please.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

It is a new YT feature which seems to only affect TVs. You should have no problems on a desktop or digital device

[@anneyday3493]

Cheers!