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Subject: Cider Digest #475 Fri Oct  7 18:00:06 EDT 1994 
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 18:00:06 -0400 
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Cider Digest #475          Fri Oct  7 18:00:07 EDT 1994 
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  Re: Plans for Presses (Geoffrey Burd) 
  re: Using grape presses for cider (Geoffrey Burd) 
  press (Ralph Snel) 

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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 22:21:26 -0400 
From: aa680@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Geoffrey Burd) 
Subject: Re: Plans for Presses 

Stanley F. Anderson's book "The Art of Making Beer" has a chapter on cider 
which includes plans for a wooden press using a hydraulic jack to provide the  
pressure. He credits the design to the Summerland Research Station of the  
Canadian Department of Agriculture, adapted from a design originally published 
by the New York Agricultural Station, Geneva N.Y. 

My copy of the book seems to predate ISBN codes but was published by Longman 
Canada Limited in 1971.  I have seen the current edition in local brew stores  
recently so it is apparently still in print. 

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  __          _ _  _           _ Geoffrey Burd   P.O. Box 1730  I~()~I_ 
 / _  _  __ _/_/  /_)     _ __/  Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0 I()()I | 
(__/_(/_(_)_/_/ _/_)_/_/_/ (_/_  aa680@freenet.carleton.ca      I)()(I-' 
Homebrewer, Winemaker, Folk Musician, Chorister, Husband, Father`===='   

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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 22:37:56 -0400 
From: aa680@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Geoffrey Burd) 
Subject: re: Using grape presses for cider 

Scanning through Anderson's book, mentioned in my previous post, I found 
instructions for the use of a grape press which I will quote shamelessly 
without permission: 

"The grape presses sold at winemaker's supply stores will effectively handle  
apple pulp if you have only a few score pounds to press. 

The typical press, made of hardwood or enamelled steel, has three main parts:  
a basket-like container, a screw-driven plunger and a tray to collect the  
expressed juice. Such a press will take 20 to 40 pounds of apple or pear pulp  
at a time. 

1. Raise the screw to its maximum height and remove the plunger. 

2. If you are using a small press, place the pulp in a nylon straining bag.  
For bigger presses, use nylon press cloths to wrap the pulp. (Cotton or linen  
cloths can be used, but they are harder to clean than nylon, wear out sooner  
and release the juice more slowly than nylon.)  Make sure that the top of the 
bagged pulp is level, then replace the plate. 

3. Apply pressure SLOWLY until you feel a fair resistance, then wait five or 
ten minutes while juice runs out the bottom of the press. 

4. Screw down a little farther and wait again while more juice runs out. 

5. Repeat the pressing and waiting until no more juice is obtained. 

6. Raise the screw, remove the plate, extract the dry pulp and, if you have 
enough apples, empty the bag or press cloths and refill for another run." 

Happy pressing! .....Geoff. 

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  __          _ _  _           _ Geoffrey Burd   P.O. Box 1730  I~()~I_ 
 / _  _  __ _/_/  /_)     _ __/  Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0 I()()I | 
(__/_(/_(_)_/_/ _/_)_/_/_/ (_/_  aa680@freenet.carleton.ca      I)()(I-' 
Homebrewer, Winemaker, Folk Musician, Chorister, Husband, Father`===='   

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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 9:42:48 MET 
From: Ralph Snel <ralph@astro.lu.se> 
Subject: press 

Count me in as one of the interested people for a wine/cider press. 
I have a small, thin Brittish book by the name of "making cider", written 
by someone whose name I don't remember, that has a few descriptions of 
cheap and easy cider presses. Basically a heavy square wooden frame with 
a basket on the inside and a hand driven hydrolic press to do the squeezing 
(one of those you put under your car). 

Here's an attempt to describe in ascii what I remember of reading a few 
years ago: 

 
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Please keep me informed of any other designs. 

Cheers, 

Ralph 
ralph@astro.lu.se 

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