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If you have an abundance of apples falling from the tree this autumn, why not make the most of them, and make your own apple juice or even cider? It's much easier than you think!

Today we took delivery of a container load of fruit presses and crushers. They've just come from Italy and they're all high quality. We hearing reports from our customers that the yield on their fruit trees is high this year and that means it won't take long for those presses and crushers to sell, so don't miss your opportunity. If you're new to cider making it's great fun and we can thoroughly recommend it. You might like to check out the some of our videos on making cider which guide you through the...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ingredients: 4lb/1.8kg sloes 1 ½ gallon/7 litres gin ½ oz/14g bitter almonds finely minced (see note) ½ lb/225g sugar Note: Use real almond essence to taste (rather than bitter almonds) as they provide depth of flavour. Also you should be aware about using bitter almonds - do some research about their toxicity. Method: Bruise the sloes well, crush the sugar (or use brewing sugar) and put it all together into a small cask, stirring thoroughly.  L...

Using Your Apples and Pears to Make Cider With the Cider Season nearly upon us it's just the right time to start thinking about the process of making cider and what you'll need to do to get the best results. If you're new to cider making, we have many guides and video's (see below) that will help you to get started. While you still have the time you'll probably find it worth your while to go through some of them so that you can make an informed decision of what equipment you'll need. In fact, we have so...

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There are two distinctly different situations here. Kit Wine and Country Wines. https://youtu.be/NM2f5HCAiYo Kit Wines Because the juice used has been specially selected (and normally pasteurised) it is rare that we will experience a problem with clearing a kit wine. If the wine fails to clear it is nearly always down to two things. The wine hasn’t been sufficiently degassed or the wine was still slightly fermenting when the stabiliser (that’s potassium sorbate and sodium metabisulphate...

Priming Your Drink We have to decide whether we are bottling, barrelling or using a Cornelius Keg. Once the decision is made: Carbonation happens when the fermentation has finished by adding more sugar to the beer. The yeast thinks it's finished converting all the sugar into alcohol (gives off CO2 Gas when it’s doing this) and has done its job but we trick it by adding more sugar which in turn wakes the yeast up which now starts to work again. It will turn the new sugar we have added into alcohol (...

Cider Making Made Easy Suggested Equipment Needed For Starting The Fermentation Pulpmaster30 Litre Bucket With Lid, Grommet & AirlockFermenter (With Markings) - 25 Litre - With Large 4" Cap (Plastic)Digital PH MeterEasy Start Siphon (MEDIUM) With Flow Stopper And Bucket ClipThermometerHydrometerNo-Rinse SteriliserMixing Paddle All the items below come in our Complete Cider Ingredients pack (minimum quantity this will do is 200 litres). Cider YeastCider (wine) NutrientTanninMalic AcidCampden...