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Cider Digest #1984
Subject: Cider Digest #1984, 2 September 2015
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Cider Digest #1984 2 September 2015
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
Contents:
re: Evolution of Harbor Freight cider press (Diane Dunn)
new (revised) book: Craft Cider Making 3rd Ed (Dick Dunn)
Harbor Freight Press ("C. Thomas")
Mostviertel: perry making region in Austria (Claude Jolicoeur)
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Subject: re: Evolution of Harbor Freight cider press
From: Diane Dunn <diane@talisman.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:41:01 -0600
In response to C. Thomas about finding containers, food grade for use in
handling apples, juice...
Your local supermarket, if they have an in house bakery will use a lot
of frosting. Over the years I have collected free, empty vanilla icing
buckets for use in the cidery. We have a local Safeway and King Soopers
(Krogers) both using and discarding frosting buckets. You may have to
clean them up yourself but they do well. Avoid maple and chocolate
flavor frosting buckets, the taste/aroma lingers. I hope this helps.
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Diane Dunn, Ailurophile diane@talisman.com Boulder County, Colorado
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Subject: new (revised) book: Craft Cider Making 3rd Ed
From: Dick Dunn <rcd@talisman.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:57:31 -0600
You need this book.
The third edition of Andrew Lea's _Craft_Cider_Making_ is out and available,
just in time for the start of the northern hemisphere's cidermaking season.
This excellent book has been carefully revised and expanded, of course.
It's still not a "big" book--but in some sense that's the point. It
doesn't attempt to be encyclopedic; rather it is balanced, direct, and
meticulously accurate.
With this edition, the presentation is also much improved: It's a larger
format, better text layout, tables easier-to-use, and many more photos
(yes, in color this time around!).
This book belongs in every cidermaker's library. Be sure you get the third
edition. Really, it's kinda hard to describe, other than that it's got so
much info in so few words.
It's available now from "the usual suspects" as well as directly from the
publisher, Crowood Press.
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Dick Dunn rcd@talisman.com Hygiene, Colorado USA
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Subject: Harbor Freight Press
From: "C. Thomas" <thomas.cris@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:06:27 -0400
I know a lot of people on this list have built Apple presses out of
Harbour Freight shop presses. To everyone who has blogged about or
YouTube'd their press I thank you. I have most definitely read your blog
and watched your videos and stolen your ideas. Thanks.
Finally got to test my press yesterday and pressed about 5 bushels of my
neighbors yard apples and it went surprising well. Here is a video I
made of my setup if anyone is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfzUKigkmOE&feature=youtu.be
- - C. Thomas
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Subject: Mostviertel: perry making region in Austria
From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoliprsf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:27:06 -0400
I am just back from the Mostviertel region of Austria, more precisely
the area around the town of Amstetten.
"Most" is the word used by Austrians for the cider and perry. Usually,
it is perry, but sometimes they specify: birnen most for perry, apfel
most for cider. Cider culture is important enough there to give the name
to the region: Mostviertel - the district or region of perry!
I was invited to attend a conference on perry pear orchards, and the
Salon des Mostes - a tasting salon of Austrian perries and of some
international ciders. I also had the opportunity to visit a few
producers, and see their orchards.
This cider and perry culture of Austria is a very well kept secret!!!
Even Austrians often don't know about it (after this, I stayed with
friends in Vienna who tasted the product for the first time - they had
no idea there was such perry produced in their own country)... But it is
certainly something that is worth discovering. The perry is very nice,
dry and clean, sharp and fruity.
I took quite a few pictures and prepared a commented diaporama that you
can see here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/111554988849488925721/Mostviertel2015
<https://picasaweb.google.com/111554988849488925721/Mostviertel2015>
Claude Jolicoeur
Author, /The New Cider Maker's Handbook
/http://www.cjoliprsf.ca/
http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-new-cider-makers-handbook/
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End of Cider Digest #1984
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