Personal pages/Apple Harvest 2016

I started picking up some apples in the beginning of October. Now, 9 October, I have roughly 20kg of chopped up, frozen apples. I've picked up maybe 1-2 kg every otyher day sofar, which is not a lot when compared to the 2014 harvest. I did also pick a few pears in the beginning, but then I stopped and later threw away the2-3kg I had collected. Not sure if I have sufficient time/capacity to pick and wash and freeze and press.

2016/10/23 This week I picked up another 10-15kgs, sofar I have a 10kg plastic crate in the freezer. TOtal 30kg at the moment. I'm now pressing 10kg - one crate fits in the press pretty well, I expect to do the 2nd 10kg this afternoon. As usual, it took about 48 hours to thaw.

2016/10/24 each crate of approx 10kg produces 7litres of juice. Those are in vat VI, the 2x3kg trester I put in vat VII (100litres) and added 12L water and 8kg sugar. I did a yeast starter with some juice and 1ml yeast.

2016/10/26 the starter worked very well, was bubbling today. I added half to the juice in vat X, half to the trester in vat. Have pressed another createful, trester into vat VII, vat VI has 22 litres and is full. This is for the cidre. PIcked up another 16kg of apples.

2016/10/27 vat VII: added 6litres water and 4kg sugar. No bubbling yet. I am considering doing another yeast starter.

2016/10/28 pressed another crateful apple, vat X. I expect more juice than this will hold, destination is the 100litre IX.

2016/10/30 vat VII: still no bubbling, but I can hear "sizzling" in the vat. The apple create I had defrosted hadn't spent long anough in the freezer, many pieces were still hard. Put it back and took another one out.