Cider Digest #0554

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Subject: Cider Digest #554, 19 September 1995 
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Cider Digest #554                                         19 September 1995 

                 Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
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Contents: 
  wild yeast cultivation (ericg@iquest.net) 
  cider and perry festival ("Dr. Gillian Grafton") 
  Apple Jack? (Roger Lee) 

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Subject: wild yeast cultivation 
From: ericg@iquest.net 
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 08:40:53 -0500 (EST) 

After reading Greg Appleyard's great posting, I am all fired up about 
cultivating some wild yeast for my next batch of cider. 

In the past, though, when I have tried to cultivate out of the air, I 
have gotten molds growing on top of the "starter".  I can see how if you 
crush your own apples, you would get a high concentration of wild yeasts 
from the skins to start the fermentation before anything else could take 
hold.  I don't have a press, though, and generally just buy juice, and 
when it is in season, "apple cider" in jugs. 

What can I do to cultivate my own wild yeast?  Any tips from those that 
have done this before? 

Thanks, 

Eric 

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Subject:      cider and perry festival 
From: "Dr. Gillian Grafton" <GRAFTONG@novell2.bham.ac.uk> 
Date:         Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:30:05  

Hi all 

I thought I'd write to announce the existence of CAMRA's second Kent  
cider and perry festival. For those of you who will be in the UK at the  
time it's on Saturday 14 October from 11am to 8pm at the Museum of  
Kent Life, Sandling near Maidstone. Contact phone no. is 01622  
763936. The site is just off junction 6 of the M20 (Forstal Road) and is  
served by half hourly busses from Maidstone and Chatham. There  
will be a wide range of ciders and perries and also an oppertunity to  
taste genuine cider apple varieties. 

Now to digress. I went to the Brogdale Horticultural Trust open day on  
Saturday 16 September. The Trust contains the UK National Fruit  
Collection which I was able to see around. They have 2,300 varieties  
of apples (mind boggling), the largest collection anywhere in the  
world. This includes a great many cider apples. Now here's the good  
news. They are open year round and sell their apples. There are only  
two trees of each variety, so there aren't a great number of apples for  
sale. The trees fruit at intervals such that there are apples for sale  
over 10 months of the year changing regularly every week. They  
certainly sell enough so that you could make a gallon or so of cider.  
If you can't make it to Kent then you can also get the apples at  
Fortnum and Masons in central London. 

Their shop also sells apple juices. Uniquely in my experience, the  
juices are made from single apple varieties which are clearly marked  
on the bottles. They are unfiltered and unpasteurised, being simply  
vacuum packed to preserve them. All you cider makers who want  
good apple juices but can't press apples should pay a visit! It's a  
great place to go and see, I can recommend it. The address is: 
Brogdale Horticultural Trust 
Brogdale Road 
Faversham 
Kent ME13 8XZ 
Tel. 01795 535286 or 535462 
Fax. 01795 531710. 

Usual disclaimer. I have absolutely no connection in any way with the  
Trust, they just impressed the hell out of me! 

Gillian 
//=\   Dr. Gillian Grafton 
\=//   Department of Immunology 
 //=\  University of Birmingham 
 \=//  Birmingham, UK 
  //=\ Email:  GraftonG@novell2.bham.ac.uk 
  \=// www:  http://sun1.bham.ac.uk/GraftonG/ 

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Subject: Apple Jack? 
From: Roger Lee <rlee@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> 
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:33:51 +1000 (EST) 

G'day! 

I'm a newbe to brewing, (with my second attempt at cider just about ready  
to bottle). 
I've noticed apple jack mentioned. Please excuse my total ignorance, but  
what the frag is apple jack? 

Sweet water and light laughter until next, 
Rabbit. 

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