Apples

[echnidna]

While looking around I found some feral apple trees that are choc-a-bloc.
So I'm wondering what I could with a mountain of apples.

Cider springs to mind but what alcoholic strength should I brew it to. I can get up to 17% ( which is 34% proof) using distillers yeast but one full beer glass and you're drunk. 2 glasses and you can't walk. 3 glasses and you'll fall off your chair.

So what else could I do with free apples?

[vsquizz]

Just make the cider:cool:

Failing that take them down to the local primary school and give them to the kids (if somebody doesn't sue you). Some of the kids may have never seen one before...

Cheers

[beejay1]

While looking around I found some feral apple trees that are choc-a-bloc.
So I'm wondering what I could with a mountain of apples.

Cider springs to mind but what alcoholic strength should I brew it to. I can get up to 17% ( which is 34% proof) using distillers yeast but one full beer glass and you're drunk. 2 glasses and you can't walk. 3 glasses and you'll fall off your chair.

So what else could I do with free apples?
Bob, when youre that ****** are you really going to worry about the rest of them. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif
" how do ya like them apples"
beejay1

http://community.webshots.com/user/eunos9

[craigb]

While looking around I found some feral apple trees that are choc-a-bloc.
So I'm wondering what I could with a mountain of apples.

Cider springs to mind but what alcoholic strength should I brew it to. I can get up to 17% ( which is 34% proof) using distillers yeast but one full beer glass and you're drunk. 2 glasses and you can't walk. 3 glasses and you'll fall off your chair.

So what else could I do with free apples?

Make a shirtload of apple pies?

[Dan]

Any Archers around your place who need some practice?

[echnidna]

Bob, when youre that ****** are you really going to worry about the rest of them. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif
" how do ya like them apples"
beejay1

http://community.webshots.com/user/eunos9

If it was just a matter of getting drunk I'd just brew up a sugar wash to 34% proof and eliminate the apples altogether. No peeling washing chopping etc.

:D :D

[craigb]

Make a shirtload of toffee apples?

[journeyman Mick]

Bob,
can't you use a different yeast to get a less alcoholic brew?

Mick

[echnidna]

Yes Mick , Bakers yeast will go 6 to 8 % on average

[Driver]

I can get up to 17% ( which is 34% proof) using distillers yeast but one full beer glass and you're drunk. 2 glasses and you can't walk. 3 glasses and you'll fall off your chair.

So what else could I do with free apples?

Many moons ago back in England, a distant rellie used to brew scrumpy (a very rough cider - as blokes like jow104 will testify).

This stuff was green and full of nourishment - frogspawn, cloudy and indistinct shapes - you get the picture. It tasted strong and wonderful so you tended to want to drink large quantities but it had a most unusual property: it made you p1ssed from the feet upwards. After two pints you could speak with great lucidity, erudition and undoubted seductive charm. All around you would be hanging on your every sparkling word. But when you needed to move, your legs didn't work - at all! This led to an undignified scrabbling along the floor when you needed to visit the facilities. Tended to spoil the effect of all that conversational expertise. Pity really - but, man, it tasted great!

Happy days!

Col

[Harry72]

I got an Idea... a punishment fit for a sick crime, the little #$%^%$ that hacked our uBEAUT site lets apple him to death!

[Iain]

Any Archers around your place who need some practice?
Show and Tell? :D :D
Make Zoyder (Zummerzet Talk) get Al P!ssed and steal his red :D

[jow104]

Driver

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Many moons ago back in England, a distant rellie used to brew scrumpy (a very rough cider - as blokes like jow104 will testify).

I think the EU regulations have killed off all the old Devon cider makers :eek:

About the only thing left is stuff that comes in supplied bottles.

Has you most probably knew the days off taking your own bottles to the cider mill and getting fill ups has gone.

[Driver]

I think the EU regulations have killed off all the old Devon cider makers :eek:


Yeah, I knew that. What a bloody shame. It's just jealousy on the part of the continentals, of course. They can't make a decent leg-paralysing brew themselves so they've regulated the pommie ones out of existence. Bad cess to 'em! There isn't a good un amongst 'em - as me Dad used to say.

Actually the scrumpy-making distant rellie in question was a Cornishman, not a Devonian. I recall as a kid seeing him drop a handful of six-inch nails into the scrumpy barrel as part of the maturing process. He always swore there was no sign of anything metallic left in the barrel at the end of the process!

[jow104]

Sounds like the early form of spiked drink :D

[Driver]

Spiked is right. :D

Just remembered - the scrumpy barrel in question was a firkin - containing nine gallons and also known as a firkin' great big barrel (that gag may be old but it's still got legs - unlike me after drinking Granfer's scrumpy!) ;)

Hic! :rolleyes:

Col

[jow104]

Driver, your accent sounds very famililar.


To echnida.

I recall to get the apples to ferment etc. it was customary to drop a dead rabbit in the brew. Any around these days? :D

[Driver]

Driver, your accent sounds very famililar.

"At's only 'cause Oi'm puttin it on, boy!

I'm originally from Merseyside but one of my aunties married a Cornishman - a bloody terrific bloke - still one of my heroes. We had a lot of holidays in Cornwall when I was a kid (and my Mum and sister now live in Cornwall). Granfer was actually my cousins' grandad.

The rabbit legend has some truth in it, too. Before myximatosis, the fields around where my aunt and uncle lived were absolutely full of rabbits. I used to go out shooting them with my uncle - he had a Lee-Enfield with a sniper scope. Memories of those holidays in the 50s are full of Aunty Gwen's rabbit pie - and her Cornish pasties! The bits I can't remember are probably a consequence of sneaking the odd thimbleful of Granfer's scrumpy!

Burp! Hic!

Col

[jow104]

Driver.

A Lee Enfield (303?) That must have made a large hole in bunny. Was there really anything left for the pie?

My bunny hunting days was done as a pillion passenger carrying the shotgun at the rear end of the motorcycle. Shotguns and horses didn't mix.