We make vinegar with the left over pulp, after the vinegar is processed we feed the left over vinegar pulp to the pigs and chickens. Nothing goes to waste and the animals love it. loved watching this!
@@norfunk you don't need a .mother. The pears and fruits from my trees are grown organically and naturaly have yeast on the peaks. I peal about three apples and put the peels or left over cider mash in a one gallon jar with 1/3 cup cane sugar and fill with spring water. I then cover with cloth and secure with a large rubber band. Stir every other day with a wooden spoon and in 30 days you have great vinegar.
I can’t wait until you have a nice apple grove on the land. I’ll be jealous, but I can’t wait. Just remember to keep sharing these videos in 15 years or so.
@@KrisHarbour How was your crop from your orchard this year, Kris? And did you ever get round to 'upgrading' your processing equipment for scratting & pressing? Time for a video update? 🙏
I would be happy to take some stuff from them and advertise for them. I do find there tools to be very good quality. I have had that drill for 6 years now and it has built multiple building and driving hundreds of 22m auger holes and thousands of fixings. Other competitor drills i have used have failed in a few months. dewalt if your listening i could do with a hand power planer and a multi tool. :)
@@KrisHarbour You need to write to them (DeWalt)!! Tell them about your channel and the exposure you offer. It might take some time but as long as you stay in touch with them you might be surprised how keen they are to work with you.
My wife asked, "how many bottles of Cider do we need to bottle?" My reply was, 365 times 2. Oh, she says, "that'll give each of us, one bottle, per day of the year." Well then, came my reply, "if you want to drink some we will need to double that." Everyday is Ciderday!
Yes, Kris is fantastic! Great video again, thanks for this. I also love watching Jonna Jinton who I stumbled across the other day...another authentic lovely soul like Kris.
17:22 little tip for emptying bottles :) If you give the bottle a little swirl after tipping it over you'll get a nice little vortex which makes the liquid come out way faster. And it's beautiful to see :D
Hi Kris, great to watch growing and producing your own food. Two tips from a german chef ;-): If you build a lid for your apple destroyer, put a tall funnel on top for the apples, so all the bits and pieces don't fly out. For your press use a piece of cotton-cloth as screen. After use, just wash it and cook it so its clean and sterile for next year. Greetings from Germany
My dad used to make wines from various fruits, he filtered before bottling, they were cheap paper filters. Look em up on-line. Also make a lid with a funnel set in it for your slicer. All the best to ya 😁
Fresh apple juice and cider is the best. A few years ago my great great uncle invited his extended family for a big apple cider/juice event. Did the same as you except it was all in one machine(wood machine). You had to hand crank the apple grinder and the apple bits fells down to the wooden barrel. You grabbed the barrel, took it to the other side to press(with a crank as well). The juice fell to a wood funnel that lead to a vessel. The vessel was taken to a table where it was strained and placed in gallons for everyone to take home. One day I want to make the machine. I tell you all of this as inspiration on how to make your process possibly more efficient or easier. Well done!
I built one of these scatters this year using stainless screws. It was pretty good but we needed to cut all the apples in quarters as whole apples just danced around on the screw heads. I took a grinder to the heads of the screws and made them random square/oblong shapes,( ie they have sharp square edges) it is night and day and blasts through whole apples now. Great channel mate.
Hi Kris, as a fairly new subscriber I am still catching up on your older videos and funnily enough I watched the cider making videos from last year and the year before just earlier today (and the cat flap installation video, too). Thank you for all you do, really appreciate you documenting your lifestyle, the content is enjoyable and helpful for me as well as many, because with everything that's going on, human beings will have to re-think their current way of living and back to nature, out of the big cities is the way to go. Much love to everyone reading this!
@Glenn 65 You nailed it! Although LA is booming right now. Still a huge demand for real estate in this god forsaken city. I think it's going to take a few more years before it falls apart here...
FYI if you tip the carboy fermentor with a piece of wood the yeast will settle out on one side. Then when it is time to syphon off carefully remove the wood and you can most of the liquid without the yeast sediment. Great channel by the way. Cheers!
I love this film of yours. Watched it a number of times now and this year I'll use the press without the muslin bag. I'm also drying a short length of hardwood to use in my own scratter - I'm fed up with drill-in-a-bucket method! It never scrats properly and takes forever doing the bits that weren't caught the first time. I'm envious of the way of life you two are living but I don't for one minute imagine it is as perfect as it looks - as in, a bloody lot of hard, hard, honest work. All the best to you and yours for the future.
I love this - we made rather similar apple grinders, and yes, they can work wonders. I used a large DC motor from an old treadmill to drive it, keeping the flywheel in place. The munching cylinder is much shorter in mine, maybe only a little over 5" long, but of a similar diameter. I put a hinged lid on mine, and only toss in a few apples at a time after the thing spins up. If I don't slap the lid shut it hits the apples hard enough to kick them right across the room LOL. It handles them as fast as I can feed them, taking only a minute or two to fill the 5 gallon press. I put the screws in a spiral pattern, split from RH pitch to LH pitch at the middle, so the material is automatically moved toward the center. I made a wooden frame screw press but borrowed the wooden slat cylinder from a commercially made Weston press, though I still use a filter bag with it, cut and stitched from old 100% cotton sheets.
I admire how much of a brilliant mind you are but I also love to see the moments of you where you are a typical man and forget something so simple like a lid. It makes me feel like most of us could do this if we truly, truly wanted to like you seem to have the passion for.
SO NICE TO SEE DOT IN THIS/THE VIDS, YOUR A GREAT GUY KRIS, AND VERY LUCKY TO HAVE SOMEONE SO SPECIAL TO SHARE YOUR DREAMS/PASSIONS, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH, X
4 people have really sad lives putting a thumbs down .... how can anyone dislike what this man is doing? He was fed up of playing the systems game that sucks you of all your money and your freedom because you have to spend all your time earning that money, he had a vision of how he could live a better stress free life and carried it through.... if you dislike that then you are a complete muppet.
@@andymccabe6712 I'm chilled just dont understand why people would watch if they dont like what hes doing ... I know that's the TH-cam world there are trolls everywhere they just need a good backhander.
If it gets cold enough this winter y'all should try to make some applejacks, a freeze-distilled apple brandy. Just leave a big bucket of cider out, covered of course, and pick out the ice in the morning. You do this several times until you've removed most of the water and you have an old traditional american spirit. It's a piece of cake to make and is really quite good for the holidays
WOW what a set up and WOW that's a lot of cider. LOL Congrats Dot on completing your course
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You can put a wider funnel on top of the big jar so you don't need to watch over if the cider dripping is going properly. Nice to watch you both working. Cheers.
Hello from Washington State 🇺🇸👋🏻 I’m new to the Chanel so lots of videos to watch! First… Kris you are the nicest young man! You make your videos a pleasure to watch! Plus your accent I love to hear! This video of cider making was really interesting… it made me thirsty for juice and cider !! Thank you for great content in all your videos! I’m a 69yr old woman but I love watching you build!! Your amazing and a genius!! Your knowledge is endless and I really admire you for that! Halloween is approaching So if you have any spooky stories do tell!!👻☠️ Well there’s my first comment to you! Thank you again for video taping all you do! It’s very interesting! Bye for now Kathy🎃💀☠️👺👹
Great video, I loved making our own cider on the small holding we used to rent on Isle of Anglesey. Unfortunately the landlord sold up and we couldn't afford to buy it, so ended up in a town house, hopefully one day we can get back to sustainable living once again.
One of the things I always look forward to in your videos is the birds in the background. It's a glorious sound. Way cool set up you guys have got. Nice to have natural stuff from your property in the fridge and freezer.
Congrats, Dot! I enjoy all vids from you and Kris. This one was special because it included the two of you. I have much respect for self-sufficient folks. So much creativity and hard work. Bless you both!
I measured the depth of my big cider bottle and bought a cork that fit the top of the bottle. Then I drilled a hole in the middle of the cork and thread the siphon pipe through it to my desired depth and then secured it in the cork so now I can just place the cork on the bottle and siphon without worry. Love your vids just discovered them and I am going through them all.
If you made a topper in the same V shape but pointed up you could feed the apples faster without all the bits flying out. Maybe attached with a couple of draw bolts-what a great little machine! Love your content, you are living my dream life.
My favorite season of the year, and a very lovely video sharing many of the things that make it great! This year I have only a poor likeness of true cider and such, but this episode at least brought many good things to mind, thanks!
Made my first batch of sloe gin and raspberry vodka last year same as you did here and it's amazing. Little tip I found because we had a mild autumn is you can put the sloes in your freezer for a night to simulate the first frost!
Another video I stumbled on - great to see two people making the best of all things natural and I would love to taste their product. It just goes to show what can be acheived with a little effort and not a chemical in sight. Fantastic is all I can say!.
That was a fun video, Kris. Now that I've exhausted all the videos in the playlists, I'm going through and finding loose ones like this. There's something about the way you carry yourself, and the sweetness of Dot, that make your videos so much fun and so enjoyable to watch. I'm so glad I found your channel, and I can't wait to see your adventures ahead. Cheers.
Great to see. I have a homemade press using a bottle jack and can layer up 4 cheeses using net curtains and press a lot in one go. My next project is to modify an old bit of farm machinery to make a better scratter. Love the videos!
sloes are not only great as a gin but also as a jam, volka, wine also can make a rose hip and sloe wine and jelly what a great harvest well done to the both of you x
I absolutely love watching your videos! I wish I had the means to live off grid!! I am sure there's really hard times but the good times I'm sure overpower the hard times!!
Another great video, Kris. If you haven’t tried it, give sloe port a go - it’s delicious and it gets a second batch from each harvest of sloes. After you rack off the gin, refill jar with sugar ans red wine (i do 125g sugar and 1 bottle of wine per 500g of fruit). Leave it another 1-3 months then rack off and top off with 250ml brandy!
When I was child we had a similar, yet a bit bigger press. We always used old cotton sheet to cover the inside of the press. No plastic and no bits in the product at all :)
I am in my 70s and I remember my dad using the pressed pumice to mix with lots of honey and water plus a few fists of dried berries, tor grapes, then fermenting the mash covered with a bag or two. After fermentation, he then distilled the slurry in a double boiler still. Some of this spirit was added to the cider to increase the alcohol content to prevent secondary fermentation in storage, The rest was added to wine or black tea in the winter, like an antifreeze.
That Heath Robinsin scrattler is splendiferous!! I had a glut of raspberries this year...so made raspberry infused gin and then also decided to make ginger root and lemon zest gin. I dont drink gin...but made a few friends very happy. Cheers m'dears. Your very good health.
I use an old garden shredder to chop the apples and then an even older cheese press to get the juices out. First fermentation and then transfer to another barrel through a filter where I add some Fructose that gives it a secondary fermentation. Comes out nice and clear and sweet which is how I like the cider
those flip top bottles leak excessive carbonation quite well, I've never had one go bang on me. I've got about 80 litres of recycled bottles, but the arse of cleaning them all means I rarely use them. Barrels and draught is great for thirsty slackers.
A great watch thanks, All your masher needs, as it does the job fine, is a better fitting lid, with a tube in the middle, and perhaps a little funnel, to put the apples in, apart from that, nice job!
professional brewer from Canada.. buddy everything you did here was beautiful - love catching your cider videos every year! Everything was spot on, and I would do it the exact same way myself (even down to the same priming sugar ratio!) Just be weary about adding boiling simple syrup like that to a chilled carboy, you don't want to kill your yeast or explode your vessel! keep up the good work!
Tip with sloe gin kris use sugar cubes equal volume to the sloes my grandparents have done this for years and passed on the tip to me Hope it works for you aswell great video and big fan of the channel
I make my own hard cider with apple cider from a local farmer - family run apple press operation. I find a minimum 6 month to 9 month aging is needed, at which point it's top notch stuff!
Love the video, as someone who grew up on a apple orchard, I do have a pice of advice, if you want more juice and all you are doing is juicing the apples, wait for them to fall of the tree. 1. You will get a sweeter juice and 2. You will get 2x the amount of juice. Just something to think about. Oh and the leftovers make grate dried apples, just throw it in the oven with a little bit of cinnamon. Thier are millions of recipes for the leftover apple pices. I do love how you don't waste it though. I imagine the animals love it. Just suggestions, do it whatever way works best for you. I say. Love the progress on the place, unfortunately I haven't seen your videos in a long time, got unsubscribed somehow. So glad to see them now. Best wishes
I've seen the water wheel generator video serie, now this - nice to see you have many talents and interests. :) I'm interested in music and natural healing but I like homestead DIY very much too. Cheers! :D
what you could try and do I suppose is have some sort of gutter pipe, leading down into the box where the apples get chopped and shredded. the lid remains, but the pipe goes through the lid via a loose hole. lid can be attached with hinges and a simple c shaped hook thingy that coils around a nail to keep it closed. simple but effective. just keep feeding the apples one by one or in twos down the pipe, they'll fall into the hole and thats that. Just an idea, haven't really thought it through carefully tbh but it may help.
I never use mislin and I use a press just like yours, only a bigger 400L one! You only need cloth with an open press, when you make hessian 'cheeses'. With the wine press it's not needed, not with apples anyway, the pears can get a bit too mushy and throw more sediment. I think I get better juice per kilo of pulp if I add less to the press in a batch - it's more work but if it's not such a juicy year (varies a lot from year to year) you get a bit more. I have 2 50l carboys and I rack once, one into the other, after the first fermentation's done (usually in November) then bottle in the spring. I find it still has some fiz if I don't leave it too late (before April here in Serbia), and by the summer it clears nicely in the bottle with minimal sediment. For me cider's a summer drink, never any left for xmas, but we have red wine for that season :) I add some crabapples when pulping, and put some oak chips in the carboy when I rack, both for good tannin which is a bit lacking in the apples I find here. If you add a few kilos of quince you get a lovely rose-like note to the final flavour, but I'm always surprised how much better the cider is if you leave it to mature through the winter in the carboy. I used to add sugar when bottling but now I don't bother, too many explosions! It's just a matter of catching the right time to bottle in the spring, get it right and you have that Beaujolais nouveau level of fiz when you pop the cap in July. Respect as always.
Booze!!! Always good. Congratulations to Dot on passing studies, was thinking you should maybe plant some Elderflower and add Elderflower Champagne to the repetoire.
If I had all that cider hanging around I would never get any work done!! Nice one Kris. Not sure it would work but they turn champagne upside down, freeze the neck and pull out the sediment that collects at the neck
just the way he says "we're gonna be good and drunk my dear" ... so romantic, almost brought a tear to my eye.
We make vinegar with the left over pulp, after the vinegar is processed we feed the left over vinegar pulp to the pigs and chickens. Nothing goes to waste and the animals love it. loved watching this!
Where do you get the mother from for your vinegar?
@@norfunk you don't need a .mother. The pears and fruits from my trees are grown organically and naturaly have yeast on the peaks. I peal about three apples and put the peels or left over cider mash in a one gallon jar with 1/3 cup cane sugar and fill with spring water. I then cover with cloth and secure with a large rubber band. Stir every other day with a wooden spoon and in 30 days you have great vinegar.
@@lisaalbarras3029 Brilliant thanks Lisa.
2 for one bet the pork chops were pre seasoned🙃🙂
Good vinegar is the last refuge of the failed brewer. Speaking from experience.
I can’t wait until you have a nice apple grove on the land. I’ll be jealous, but I can’t wait. Just remember to keep sharing these videos in 15 years or so.
We are hoping to have a crop within about 5 years. It will come around before we know it.
That is were he gets money from to survive sharing videos
@@KrisHarbour How was your crop from your orchard this year, Kris? And did you ever get round to 'upgrading' your processing equipment for scratting & pressing? Time for a video update? 🙏
Dewalt should be sending you free tools, that poor old drill has been through hell and back, perfect advert for them. keep up the good work fella
I would be happy to take some stuff from them and advertise for them. I do find there tools to be very good quality. I have had that drill for 6 years now and it has built multiple building and driving hundreds of 22m auger holes and thousands of fixings. Other competitor drills i have used have failed in a few months. dewalt if your listening i could do with a hand power planer and a multi tool. :)
Mhm, as viewer we simply could write them a Mail and ask if they would get in contact.
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Kris sent me you mail
@@KrisHarbour "Dear DeWalt, your power drill
makes amazing cider..."
@@KrisHarbour You need to write to them (DeWalt)!! Tell them about your channel and the exposure you offer. It might take some time but as long as you stay in touch with them you might be surprised how keen they are to work with you.
I'm just as fascinated with your collection of ancient tesco carrier bags.
My wife asked, "how many bottles of Cider do we need to bottle?" My reply was, 365 times 2. Oh, she says, "that'll give each of us, one bottle, per day of the year." Well then, came my reply, "if you want to drink some we will need to double that." Everyday is Ciderday!
@Daniel Kintigh I had that problem, but someone showed Me a certificate, so I have dig it back up.
I'll love to be thear with uz and see such butfulnes
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This has to be the most creative single human being on TH-cam.
Yes, Kris is fantastic! Great video again, thanks for this. I also love watching Jonna Jinton who I stumbled across the other day...another authentic lovely soul like Kris.
Youre gonna like this channel to th-cam.com/video/Rarogi2_lGk/w-d-xo.html
*single most creative. FTFY.
Try advoko makes too
17:22 little tip for emptying bottles :) If you give the bottle a little swirl after tipping it over you'll get a nice little vortex which makes the liquid come out way faster.
And it's beautiful to see :D
Hi Kris, great to watch growing and producing your own food.
Two tips from a german chef ;-): If you build a lid for your apple destroyer, put a tall funnel on top for the apples, so all the bits and pieces don't fly out. For your press use a piece of cotton-cloth as screen. After use, just wash it and cook it so its clean and sterile for next year.
Greetings from Germany
Hi both. You can't beat a good cider.
A massive congratulations to Dot on getting the results she wanted.
Dot, you have a lovely smile, we should see it more. Pear brandy !!..... Congratulations Dot,
Yes, her beautiful smile should be splashed around more!
Great to see them happy!!
My dad used to make wines from various fruits, he filtered before bottling, they were cheap paper filters. Look em up on-line. Also make a lid with a funnel set in it for your slicer. All the best to ya 😁
Congrats to Dot on finishing her exams and your chosen method of celebrating is very smart! Thanks for another well-paced and entertaining video.
Smells like a pub in here... nice!
Gotta love that :D nice content, I really appreciate it! Have a nice day and weekend :)
it is a man and Dot cave afterall
Fresh apple juice and cider is the best. A few years ago my great great uncle invited his extended family for a big apple cider/juice event. Did the same as you except it was all in one machine(wood machine). You had to hand crank the apple grinder and the apple bits fells down to the wooden barrel. You grabbed the barrel, took it to the other side to press(with a crank as well). The juice fell to a wood funnel that lead to a vessel. The vessel was taken to a table where it was strained and placed in gallons for everyone to take home. One day I want to make the machine. I tell you all of this as inspiration on how to make your process possibly more efficient or easier. Well done!
I built one of these scatters this year using stainless screws. It was pretty good but we needed to cut all the apples in quarters as whole apples just danced around on the screw heads. I took a grinder to the heads of the screws and made them random square/oblong shapes,( ie they have sharp square edges) it is night and day and blasts through whole apples now. Great channel mate.
Hi Kris, as a fairly new subscriber I am still catching up on your older videos and funnily enough I watched the cider making videos from last year and the year before just earlier today (and the cat flap installation video, too).
Thank you for all you do, really appreciate you documenting your lifestyle, the content is enjoyable and helpful for me as well as many, because with everything that's going on, human beings will have to re-think their current way of living and back to nature, out of the big cities is the way to go.
Much love to everyone reading this!
@Glenn 65 You nailed it! Although LA is booming right now. Still a huge demand for real estate in this god forsaken city. I think it's going to take a few more years before it falls apart here...
FYI if you tip the carboy fermentor with a piece of wood the yeast will settle out on one side. Then when it is time to syphon off carefully remove the wood and you can most of the liquid without the yeast sediment. Great channel by the way. Cheers!
I love this film of yours. Watched it a number of times now and this year I'll use the press without the muslin bag. I'm also drying a short length of hardwood to use in my own scratter - I'm fed up with drill-in-a-bucket method! It never scrats properly and takes forever doing the bits that weren't caught the first time. I'm envious of the way of life you two are living but I don't for one minute imagine it is as perfect as it looks - as in, a bloody lot of hard, hard, honest work. All the best to you and yours for the future.
I love this - we made rather similar apple grinders, and yes, they can work wonders. I used a large DC motor from an old treadmill to drive it, keeping the flywheel in place. The munching cylinder is much shorter in mine, maybe only a little over 5" long, but of a similar diameter. I put a hinged lid on mine, and only toss in a few apples at a time after the thing spins up. If I don't slap the lid shut it hits the apples hard enough to kick them right across the room LOL. It handles them as fast as I can feed them, taking only a minute or two to fill the 5 gallon press. I put the screws in a spiral pattern, split from RH pitch to LH pitch at the middle, so the material is automatically moved toward the center. I made a wooden frame screw press but borrowed the wooden slat cylinder from a commercially made Weston press, though I still use a filter bag with it, cut and stitched from old 100% cotton sheets.
I hope you wassail'd your trees and got a good crop this year. Blessed Be 🙌
I admire how much of a brilliant mind you are but I also love to see the moments of you where you are a typical man and forget something so simple like a lid. It makes me feel like most of us could do this if we truly, truly wanted to like you seem to have the passion for.
SO NICE TO SEE DOT IN THIS/THE VIDS, YOUR A GREAT GUY KRIS, AND VERY LUCKY TO HAVE SOMEONE SO SPECIAL TO SHARE YOUR DREAMS/PASSIONS, GOD BLESS YOU BOTH, X
Love when two people are having a good time while working
4 people have really sad lives putting a thumbs down .... how can anyone dislike what this man is doing?
He was fed up of playing the systems game that sucks you of all your money and your freedom because you have to spend all your time earning that money, he had a vision of how he could live a better stress free life and carried it through.... if you dislike that then you are a complete muppet.
@@copiousfootnotes lol. Aussie here. Kris is awesome.
Thumbs down are from muppets, Mark is spot on.
EVERYTHING on TH-cam has 'thumbs downs'!
Chill..........!!
Haters will hate :)
@@andymccabe6712
I'm chilled just dont understand why people would watch if they dont like what hes doing ... I know that's the TH-cam world there are trolls everywhere they just need a good backhander.
@@hatis6052 Potaters gonna potate.
If it gets cold enough this winter y'all should try to make some applejacks, a freeze-distilled apple brandy. Just leave a big bucket of cider out, covered of course, and pick out the ice in the morning. You do this several times until you've removed most of the water and you have an old traditional american spirit. It's a piece of cake to make and is really quite good for the holidays
What a satisfying video. Add to that the satisfying "click" when he closed the door to his workshop.
Cheers! It’s great to see just how industrious you are. A little hard work and thinking things through produces great results.
WOW what a set up and WOW that's a lot of cider. LOL Congrats Dot on completing your course
You can put a wider funnel on top of the big jar so you don't need to watch over if the cider dripping is going properly. Nice to watch you both working. Cheers.
Hello from Washington State 🇺🇸👋🏻
I’m new to the Chanel so lots of videos to watch!
First… Kris you are the nicest young man! You make your videos a pleasure to watch! Plus your accent I love to hear!
This video of cider making was really interesting… it made me thirsty for juice and cider !! Thank you for great content in all your videos! I’m a 69yr old woman but I love watching you build!! Your amazing and a genius!! Your knowledge is endless and I really admire you for that!
Halloween is approaching
So if you have any spooky stories do tell!!👻☠️
Well there’s my first comment to you! Thank you again for video taping all you do! It’s very interesting!
Bye for now
Kathy🎃💀☠️👺👹
Great video, I loved making our own cider on the small holding we used to rent on Isle of Anglesey. Unfortunately the landlord sold up and we couldn't afford to buy it, so ended up in a town house, hopefully one day we can get back to sustainable living once again.
Dot is a lovely lady. You take good care of her.👍🍺
Cheers for that one Jerry 😂
Hahaha love how the apples spit out of that little hole they are being put in. Always love this video! Been watching for a number of years!
Got to say I love the teamwork you two have in your relationship. Well done being excellent people.
One of the things I always look forward to in your videos is the birds in the background. It's a glorious sound.
Way cool set up you guys have got. Nice to have natural stuff from your property in the fridge and freezer.
great stuff chris, im really happy for you and dot, living a great life and sharing it with us
Well done! The cider looks fantastic. It's always relaxing to watch one of your videos. Look forward to seeing how the Gin comes along!
Congrats, Dot! I enjoy all vids from you and Kris. This one was special because it included the two of you. I have much respect for self-sufficient folks. So much creativity and hard work. Bless you both!
I measured the depth of my big cider bottle and bought a cork that fit the top of the bottle. Then I drilled a hole in the middle of the cork and thread the siphon pipe through it to my desired depth and then secured it in the cork so now I can just place the cork on the bottle and siphon without worry. Love your vids just discovered them and I am going through them all.
If you made a topper in the same V shape but pointed up you could feed the apples faster without all the bits flying out. Maybe attached with a couple of draw bolts-what a great little machine! Love your content, you are living my dream life.
My favorite season of the year, and a very lovely video sharing many of the things that make it great! This year I have only a poor likeness of true cider and such, but this episode at least brought many good things to mind, thanks!
Made my first batch of sloe gin and raspberry vodka last year same as you did here and it's amazing. Little tip I found because we had a mild autumn is you can put the sloes in your freezer for a night to simulate the first frost!
Awesome Kris. I’ve always found that home brewing means less hangovers, which is strange given how much more I get to drink! 😂🍻
Thanks for teaching me how to make cider! Watch your videos all the time. You're a legend mate. Keep it up.
so that's how cider is made at home! lovely, I'll have to build my own machine like that
I really enjoy your videos and I think you and Dot are the cutest couple drinking your cider together. I wish you both continued happiness. Thank you
Another video I stumbled on - great to see two people making the best of all things natural and I would love to taste their product. It just goes to show what can be acheived with a little effort and not a chemical in sight. Fantastic is all I can say!.
That was a fun video, Kris. Now that I've exhausted all the videos in the playlists, I'm going through and finding loose ones like this. There's something about the way you carry yourself, and the sweetness of Dot, that make your videos so much fun and so enjoyable to watch. I'm so glad I found your channel, and I can't wait to see your adventures ahead. Cheers.
Exact same feeling here .. I second every word you said ❣
Congratulations, Dot! Blessings Abound!
You inspired me to get a carboy of scrumpy fermenting in the kitchen. We shall see if we have something drinkable for Yule.❤
Great to see. I have a homemade press using a bottle jack and can layer up 4 cheeses using net curtains and press a lot in one go. My next project is to modify an old bit of farm machinery to make a better scratter. Love the videos!
sloes are not only great as a gin but also as a jam, volka, wine also can make a rose hip and sloe wine and jelly what a great harvest well done to the both of you x
I look forward to your videos all week. You and Dot make a great team. Lovely couple.
I absolutely love watching your videos! I wish I had the means to live off grid!! I am sure there's really hard times but the good times I'm sure overpower the hard times!!
Awesome. Many thanks for bringing us this fabulous 'step by step' covering such an important subject - tee hee :)
Kris those ciders look amazing. Cheers from America!
That was the perfect autumn video. Thank you for sharing!
Totally impressed with the scratter!🥳
Another great video, Kris. If you haven’t tried it, give sloe port a go - it’s delicious and it gets a second batch from each harvest of sloes. After you rack off the gin, refill jar with sugar ans red wine (i do 125g sugar and 1 bottle of wine per 500g of fruit). Leave it another 1-3 months then rack off and top off with 250ml brandy!
When I was child we had a similar, yet a bit bigger press. We always used old cotton sheet to cover the inside of the press. No plastic and no bits in the product at all :)
Years ago, a mate and myself thought we were seeing a ufo land in a field. Turned out it was 2 people in a tent with torches. Classic scrumpy moment.
Haha ❣
Cool nice and healthy all that work it just makes it even better thank you for sharing
I am in my 70s and I remember my dad using the pressed pumice to mix with lots of honey and water plus a few fists of dried berries, tor grapes, then fermenting the mash covered with a bag or two. After fermentation, he then distilled the slurry in a double boiler still. Some of this spirit was added to the cider to increase the alcohol content to prevent secondary fermentation in storage, The rest was added to wine or black tea in the winter, like an antifreeze.
Thanks for posting and sharing. It was nice to see you and Dot working together on the cider.
That Heath Robinsin scrattler is splendiferous!! I had a glut of raspberries this year...so made raspberry infused gin and then also decided to make ginger root and lemon zest gin. I dont drink gin...but made a few friends very happy. Cheers m'dears. Your very good health.
I think this guys a wizard 😂 literally seems to be a master of everything
I use an old garden shredder to chop the apples and then an even older cheese press to get the juices out. First fermentation and then transfer to another barrel through a filter where I add some Fructose that gives it a secondary fermentation. Comes out nice and clear and sweet which is how I like the cider
You have a great life, nice and simple. You are a clever bunch.
those flip top bottles leak excessive carbonation quite well, I've never had one go bang on me. I've got about 80 litres of recycled bottles, but the arse of cleaning them all means I rarely use them. Barrels and draught is great for thirsty slackers.
When you rebuilt/make v2 it you should add a lid with a loading tube, simliar to a food processor
BRILLIANT, GREAT TEAMWORK, KEEP SAFE AND WELL, X
Awesome Kris, i thought making Cider was more complicated.
Looking at the remaining apples on my trees makes me want to have a go now!
A great watch thanks, All your masher needs, as it does the job fine, is a better fitting lid, with a tube in the middle, and perhaps a little funnel, to put the apples in, apart from that, nice job!
Can't believe how much the tractor likes watching u make cider
This is the most wholesome channel on TH-cam.
professional brewer from Canada..
buddy everything you did here was beautiful - love catching your cider videos every year! Everything was spot on, and I would do it the exact same way myself (even down to the same priming sugar ratio!)
Just be weary about adding boiling simple syrup like that to a chilled carboy, you don't want to kill your yeast or explode your vessel!
keep up the good work!
Brilliant as always. Well done to dot, what was she studying?
I can admire the content in your eyes. Good job.
Good to see you again! I love apple cider doughnuts!
Quite easy to make and I’m sure tastes amazing. Didn’t realise can get the fizz naturally 👌🏻 cheers kris you’ve given me a new project
Well done Dot. Congrats!
haha i just noticed the tractor even has a little smile on its face - so cute
and wow - slow gin that takes me back to my childhood, love it
Tip with sloe gin kris use sugar cubes equal volume to the sloes my grandparents have done this for years and passed on the tip to me
Hope it works for you aswell great video and big fan of the channel
I make my own hard cider with apple cider from a local farmer - family run apple press operation. I find a minimum 6 month to 9 month aging is needed, at which point it's top notch stuff!
Great work guys fab making cider and the gin 👍🏴👍
Just want to say thank you very much for sharing , amazing content and entertainment as always
Congrats on 200k subs! Always look forward to your Apple pressing videos every year.
Supper cool, love the cider making. I am new to your channel, it's a nice change from all the politics these days.
We used to make apricot wine. The cider looks magnificent
Love the video, as someone who grew up on a apple orchard, I do have a pice of advice, if you want more juice and all you are doing is juicing the apples, wait for them to fall of the tree. 1. You will get a sweeter juice and 2. You will get 2x the amount of juice. Just something to think about. Oh and the leftovers make grate dried apples, just throw it in the oven with a little bit of cinnamon. Thier are millions of recipes for the leftover apple pices. I do love how you don't waste it though. I imagine the animals love it. Just suggestions, do it whatever way works best for you. I say. Love the progress on the place, unfortunately I haven't seen your videos in a long time, got unsubscribed somehow. So glad to see them now. Best wishes
Beautiful batch of cider! Congrats to Dot for anther successful term.
I've seen the water wheel generator video serie, now this - nice to see you have many talents and interests. :) I'm interested in music and natural healing but I like homestead DIY very much too. Cheers! :D
That non-rectangular door is a thing of beauty. I have fitted a couple standard doors and they were difficult enough!
what you could try and do I suppose is have some sort of gutter pipe, leading down into the box where the apples get chopped and shredded.
the lid remains, but the pipe goes through the lid via a loose hole.
lid can be attached with hinges and a simple c shaped hook thingy that coils around a nail to keep it closed. simple but effective.
just keep feeding the apples one by one or in twos down the pipe, they'll fall into the hole and thats that. Just an idea, haven't really thought it through carefully tbh but it may help.
I never use mislin and I use a press just like yours, only a bigger 400L one! You only need cloth with an open press, when you make hessian 'cheeses'. With the wine press it's not needed, not with apples anyway, the pears can get a bit too mushy and throw more sediment. I think I get better juice per kilo of pulp if I add less to the press in a batch - it's more work but if it's not such a juicy year (varies a lot from year to year) you get a bit more. I have 2 50l carboys and I rack once, one into the other, after the first fermentation's done (usually in November) then bottle in the spring. I find it still has some fiz if I don't leave it too late (before April here in Serbia), and by the summer it clears nicely in the bottle with minimal sediment. For me cider's a summer drink, never any left for xmas, but we have red wine for that season :) I add some crabapples when pulping, and put some oak chips in the carboy when I rack, both for good tannin which is a bit lacking in the apples I find here. If you add a few kilos of quince you get a lovely rose-like note to the final flavour, but I'm always surprised how much better the cider is if you leave it to mature through the winter in the carboy. I used to add sugar when bottling but now I don't bother, too many explosions! It's just a matter of catching the right time to bottle in the spring, get it right and you have that Beaujolais nouveau level of fiz when you pop the cap in July. Respect as always.
Congrats Dot on your studies completion..We'll cheers you too.
Awesome Kris, y’all take care! 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯
Booze!!! Always good.
Congratulations to Dot on passing studies, was thinking you should maybe plant some Elderflower and add Elderflower Champagne to the repetoire.
If I had all that cider hanging around I would never get any work done!! Nice one Kris. Not sure it would work but they turn champagne upside down, freeze the neck and pull out the sediment that collects at the neck
That drill sure is earning its keep. That’s some work!!