Just spent a couple hours on a test run of my new cider press. Apples grown in my backyard, harvested last week, and now pressed into cider.

I like fresh cider, not planning on fermenting it. I am told the use of "cider" for unfermented apple drink is a US thing? Let me know, I guess. Hereabouts it means either an alcoholic beverage *or* unfiltered apple juice.

I made half a gallon as a trial run (far more than is in the jar in the picture here), to make sure I had everything down before committing. The press really wants to do twice this many apples in one go; next time!

Came out incredible - genuinely the best I've ever had, excepting not even my grandfather's (who owned an orchard - I used to help him press cider every autumn).

Video of the press in action in next post.

#seattle #gardening #apple (a far more interesting kind of apple than the tech company, yes I know what this tag usually means, fuck your megacorp and all the others)