Cider Digest #1935

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Subject: Cider Digest #1935, 26 January 2015 
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Cider Digest #1935                                         26 January 2015 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Cider House Plans (Josh Kellermann) 

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Subject: Cider House Plans 
From: Josh Kellermann <joshkellermann@gmail.com> 
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:45:00 -0500 

Hi All, 
I'm planning to build a small cider house this summer and wanted to see if 
there were any best practices or actual plans that folks could send me so 
that as I design mine I don't miss any key ingredients. Here are the basic 
components of what I want: 
- - I press around 100-200 gallons per year, and have a few different antique 
grinders and presses, so I don't need a lot of space and don't plan to go 
big because I rely just on the 50 or so wild apple trees that grow on the 
stone walls of my family's old dairy farm. 
- - I don't plan to sell, so don't need all the sanitary kitchen stuff, 
although I will probably put a utility sink inside so I don't have to wash 
buckets on the ground. 
- - My main goal is to press right where the presses are stored, rather than 
the current practice of dragging these presses from out of the old chicken 
coop, down a hill and into the driveway to press. So, I need to be able to 
wash the floors. 
- - I'll be building it myself on a limited budget. There is lots of flat 
stone around that I can use for a foundation, but I'll probably use 
dimensional lumber for the structure. 
- - Pictures of your cider houses are most welcome! 

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Thanks for any feedback! 
Josh Kellermann 
The Catskills, NY 
joshkellermann@gmail.com 

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