Cider Digest #0751

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Subject: Cider Digest #751, 24 June 1998 
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Cider Digest #751                                         24 June 1998 

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Contents: 
  Are Macintosh or Pippin Good Cider Apples? (Greg Schaem) 
  crab apple varieties (John Gilmour) 

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Subject: Are Macintosh or Pippin Good Cider Apples? 
From: schaem@velo.engr.sgi.com (Greg Schaem) 
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:01:30 -0700 

I  have 5 apple trees which produce loads of apples in September/October.  They 
look like Macintosh, Pippin, Yellow Delicious and a red one I can't identify. 
Even If I could use some of these for cider, how could I press them?  I have 
made many homebrews, so once I had the apple juice I could make cider with no 
problem. 

Greg Schaem 
schaem@sgi.com 

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Subject: crab apple varieties 
From: John Gilmour <jbgilm@malthus.morton.wm.edu> 
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:17:41 -0500 

I make cider from juice I buy locally, but like to add some crab apple 
juice to perk it up.  I'd like to plant a tree or two in my yard to supply 
apples and be attractive ornamentals at the same time, but don't know what 
variety to plant.  This is what I would like:  a tree that produces apples 
about an inch or so in diameter, or a little less, with appropriate levels 
of tannin and acidity, and which has a nice shape to it -- and by this I 
mean a tree that has a spreading rather than an upright growing habit. 
Does anybody know of such a tree, or a reference source that would help me 
find one? 

John Gilmour 

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