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Wow! Pink apple juice!

Posted on January 16, 2026 by james

Someone brought in a large-ish batch of apples of mixed varieties to be pressed. By sheer chance, the first batch I did produced juice of an amazing pink colour. It was sheer chance that I noticed — if it hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Testing apple juice settling tank

Posted on January 16, 2026 by james

To reduce the amount of sediment in bottles of apple juice I have been testing an extra step in the process — leaving the juice in a barrel or tank for twenty-four hours prior to syphoning off the juice and … Continue reading →

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Apple juice with a bit of bite

Posted on January 13, 2026 by james

Or sting, more accurately. This is the end of one of the syphons in a bottle filler. It’s not uncommon for people to start them off by sucking juice through the syphon via this hole. Note to self: check the … Continue reading →

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Pressing the first batch of my own apples

Posted on January 13, 2026 by james

In the past I’ve mostly mixed up all my apples to press, but there were so many in 2025 that varietal pressings became viable. This is the first batch, of Blenheim Orange. After the Blenheim Orange I had some Ashmeads … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 13th November 2022: Juice, juice baby

Posted on April 6, 2024 by james

It’s that time again. Always seems to come around so soon even though it’s mid-November already. The apple press is on its annual outing… Looks very appealing (I tried to make that more like appleing, but it just didn’t work … Continue reading →

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Last of the 2023 apple juice

Posted on March 24, 2024 by james

It’s not done too badly. Pressing was late November, and whilst I did press quite a bit of juice not all of it was frozen for drinking straight. But today I opened the very last bottled. No more until the … Continue reading →

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Pressing apple juice, 2021

Posted on December 5, 2021 by james

It seems far longer than three weeks ago that I collected all of the apples from our orchard that could be used for juice, but today I finally managed to get organised to press them. I collected six 20kg feed … Continue reading →

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Apples, apples, everywhere

Posted on November 11, 2021 by james

Today I finally got around to collecting apples for juicing. The apples haven’t been great this year, as I may have already said. We’ve only really had a decent crop on the ones that flowered late, which is mainly cider … Continue reading →

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And now the pasteurising is also done

Posted on November 12, 2020 by james

Pasteurising 140+ bottles twenty at a time certainly takes a while. But happily it is now all done and I just need to find somewhere to store all those bottles for the next six months or so whilst we drink … Continue reading →

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Finally finished bottling…

Posted on November 10, 2020 by james

After six or seven hours over the last three days I’ve finally filled the last bottle with apple juice. One hundred and forty five 75cl bottles, to be precise, so almost 109 litres or a shade under 24 UK gallons. … Continue reading →

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