Today, well today wasn't bad but not exciting either. Though come to think of it when my job gets exciting it means something has gone badly wrong so exciting isn't good. I haven't really anything to report about my days work so I'll write about something else. Last weekend I racked off five hundred and twenty five liters of cider. That is I siphoned it off its primary lees. Lees are dead yeast cells and particles of apple that escaped the through the press filter. That is about half my production for last year. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with eleven hundred liters of cider, but I'll think of something. I'm calling it Cadgers Chance as most of the apples that I used are cadged from anyone and everyone who has spare apples.
There are six to seven hundred kilos of apples in this stack I pressed the whole stack in the day on my own and that was after building a stand for two two hundred and ten litre fermentation tanks. All in all I was happy with my days work. I just hope the cider tastes OK when I'm finished. I don't expect to bottle the bulk until April or May and even then it will take a few months to mature in the bottle. I may have mentioned that I have a small orchard, about a hundred trees, but it isn't mature enough to produce more than a few apples yet. But time should cure that.
see you tomorrow.
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