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Real Cider Making on a Small Scale
by: Michael J. Pooley, John Lomax

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781854861955
ISBN: 1854861956
Label: Special Interest Model Books
Manufacturer: Special Interest Model Books
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: April 29, 1999
Publisher: Special Interest Model Books
Studio: Special Interest Model Books
Sales Rank: 1978

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- The only book you will need to make successful cider at home.
I have been making approx 20 gallons per year of cider for the last three years,using only windfall cookers, eaters and crabs. I have produced superb cider with virtually no waste. This is entirely thanks to this book.
I always keep this book to hand, as a reference, whether pressing, fermenting,racking or bottling.
This book is the perfect balance between craft and science. Crushing apples with a timber post in a bucket, is not as suggested elsewhere, a hippy style communal event- but is in fact an entirely practical (and cheap) method of preparing apples for pressing.
I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone contemplating making their own cider. In fact I would not recommend starting without it

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- A very useful book
Real cidermaking is an excellent book for a newcomer to cider making. I bought it last year and followed what it said, and this year we are drinking lovely dry sparkling cider from our two apple trees. It was our first time ever trying to make cider, and the results are truly fantastic.

It is very much geared to the home cider maker who has tree with a lot of apples and wants to use them.

It usefully tells you why you should do something - eg sterilising properly - and what happens when you don't. This type of approach ensures that you don't cut corners because you know the consequences of doing so.

By and large the book is clear but I found that because you are making cider from real apples, and ... Read More:

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- Written by hippies!
Written by hippies for hippies. This book explains how to make cider using the most labour intensive methods possible. The whole emphasis being on developing a community spirit rather than making cider simply. Easier methods are mentioned in passing but dismissed with no good reason. The perfect example being the use of mills for crushing apples, the author would clearly prefer getting sweaty with a big stick or enlisting child labour.

No mention whatsoever on the use of the freeze-thaw process which largely eliminates the need for crushing and still makes for great cider.

If you want to see photos of hippies in arran jumpers bonding this is the book! If you are not already part of a commune bound together by the virtues ... Read More:

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- Get brewing...
The book was great, it provides all the details you'd need to make your own cider as a complete beginner. From making your own apple press through to possible problems with brewing and storing, everthing needed to get brewing your own is there. I was drinking my first 11% ABV within 2 months.
It's a practical guide obviously written by someone who appreciates the reasons why you'd want to brew your own booze!!!
If you want to get into cider brewing this is a very good start.

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