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Nov 18, 2009 08:51:51
wyatt
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...the guy is just a farmer, and his cider is non processed stuff, but wow...it's great. His apples are good enough to be sold as is, the are perfect and wonderful,I grab one and eat it as we talk and fill the jug,,,He use's all different kinds....3 bucks a gallon.You guys that don't have cider are missing a real treat. It tastes good with most everything.

Nov 18, 2009 09:36:03
Montrose
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH7WlLjKW5w

I always enjoy a hot Dicken's Cider.





Nov 18, 2009 09:51:36
Speedy1
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If it isn't hard it will rust your pipes.

Nov 18, 2009 09:56:06
Rod H.
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Good stuff, Wyatt!

When I was a teen there was a family at our church who had a small apple orchard in their back yard and a cider press. Anyone who wanted a gallon was welcome to one. I stuck one in our spare fridge in the basement and forgot about it for a while. One evening a friend was over and we got it out and started drinking it. Thought it was funny because it was a little fizzy. After drinking about a quart each we took it upstairs for my folks to try, and were informed we'd "had enough" because it had fermented.

A couple years ago I built a small press. Have used it twice, and only for grapes. Maybe next year I'll try it with some apples. It's not the greatest press functionally, but I think if I chop the apples up a bit it should produce some cider.

Nov 18, 2009 15:58:54
wyatt
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nice work, where did you get the bands

Nov 18, 2009 17:26:18
davidsauer1
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It is certainly good stuff. The orchard down the street does the same thing. Problem is, I can drink a half gallon a day.

-David

Nov 19, 2009 10:28:48
Rod H.
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Quote: "
nice work, where did you get the bands"


Thank you, Wyatt.

I made them from some mild steel strap. Virtually all the materials were donated or scrap.

One neighbor gave me the steel for the tee handle. Another gave me the steel strap for the bands and the huge threaded rod for the center. I think the latter neighbor also gave me the screws for the bands, but I may have bought a box when I went to Lowes for the nuts and washers for the threaded rod. The oak was from some rough sawn white oak, which I resawed to size. I got the oak from a guy I paid to take down a couple cedar trees a number of years ago. I let him have the cedar and a few months later he dropped off the green oak slabs.

I bent the straps using a jig that goes in a vise that my younger brother made in his HS machine shop class in the 70s. It's basically a steel bar with two large pins closely spaced, and I had to advance the bar through the gap and give it tiny bends every 1/4" or so. I drew a circle on butcher paper, then made the bent bands match. The whole project was fun, except drilling all the holes in the straps. I got a drill press after completing the project.

It was one of the first projects I used my MIG welder on when I bought it several years ago so don't look at the welds too closely! The bands needed to be welded at the ends, as well as the tee handle. It's not in the photo, but I later made a spout out of PVC pipe that routes the juice out the U shaped cutout on the tray.

Nov 19, 2009 19:38:17
fast-MG.com
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Wyatt, is that the one on Otto road. Hard to find that kind of cider out here.

Nov 20, 2009 04:56:13
comart45
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Quote: "
...the guy is just a farmer, and his cider is non processed stuff, but wow...it's great. His apples are good enough to be sold as is, the are perfect and wonderful,I grab one and eat it as we talk and fill the jug,,,He use's all different kinds....3 bucks a gallon.You guys that don't have cider are missing a real treat. It tastes good with most everything."



Damn it Wyatt, is this a military secret or what? Where is this cider mill? I haven't had any decent cider yet this season. I want the semi hard cider.

Nov 20, 2009 05:07:55
wyatt
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Hello Dave, no thats the "Country Mill"...he has turned it into a tourist trap for for the city people, the place gets packed at this time of year. I go to Conklins cider mill on Gresham Hwy it's a dirt road, its out by Vermontville...it's just a old metal barn surrounded by crates of apples. He is a dairy/crop farmer...nothing fancy about the place. It's self serve alot of the time when he's in the barn or field. If you get there early enough you can watch him mash the apples, and when he's not looking maybe you can toss one of the stray kitties in there too................it gives it a darker color.

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