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I've borrowed a screw press identical to the one you've noted in the 12L size, and that should work fine for me. It came with a set of spacer blocks to let me get more 'stroke' with turns, I just wind it back up, throw in another pair of blocks and I'm good to go. Just cleaned and sanitized it...

A Few additions: 1) The press has the follow board, tucked away inside. SUCCESS! Also picked up a fine mesh bag to press with. 2) SO FAR we have picked 15 (fifteen!) gallons of pears off the tree, with what looks like AT LEAST another 10 gallons to go. Wow. Looks to be around 400 pears on...

Thanks for the advice, will be paid attention to. I like the idea of adding a few apples for additional flavor, and if timing is right I'll be buying some cider apple juice this fall....there's a lovely hard cider festival in western Massachusetts that I've been going to for some 20+ years now...

Hello all from the Other Side Of The Pond! Made my first two batches of cider last winter, first from a cider kit I was given for Xmas, the second because I remembered I had a five gallon beer kit I had nearly abandoned. Both came out OK, the gallon batch was from un-preserved bottled juice, the...

ANY water from the tap, be it from the hot or cold, has bacteria in it. You HAVE to sterilize it, I don't care what anyone says. I don't care if it has chlorine in it or not, boil it. If it hasn't boiled for 5 minutes, don't use it. Any hose from a shower head is also contaminated. Bacterias...