Today is cider day
So today i went to a friends house to help pick apples from their orchard out back like i did last year. The intent was to turn most or all of the 6.5 gallons of cider we juiced into delicious hard cider. Conveniently they also had a plum, pear, and crab apple tree (not all on one tree) which provided a wonderful seed for further experimentation on my part. So with supplies in hand i returned home to begin making
Before cider can actually be made we must remove the wild yeast and whatever stray bacteria may be floating around. The go to way to handle this is campden tablets crushed up and mixed into the juice. They need 24hrs to do their job so setting up primary will have to wait till tomorrow
Till then we've sanitized all our equipment and I've begun adding labels and documenting the process properly (for science!)
More updates to come as i continue