“Every little master has his tiny hand-book”. This is a popular phrase in Spanish used when people has different ways to carry out the same process. Everyone has their own tricks, would be the translation.
Continue ReadingTHE CIDER MAKERS’ MANUAL
HOUSTON!
As a beginner in the amateur cider making world, I am already facing my first problem. Yesterday I went to a cider house to get some fresh apple juice and once I filled up two jugs I put the stoppers on them. But, unfortunately, I pressed one too much and it went inside through the neck of the carboy.
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If you have followed my stories you will imagine I have ventured to do some experiments with cider. With the permission of all the expert cider makers I know, I will try to naturally ferment some fresh apple juice ?.
THE GROCERY
I try to go to local grocery stores instead of supermarkets. Well, to be honest, sometimes I fall in the dark side.
Continue ReadingARAETA BASQUE PERRY
If sagardoa (sagar/apple+ardoa/wine) means cider in Basque, udardoa means perry (udarea/pear+ardoa/wine). Some years ago I didn’t even know that perry existed, neither I had heard about the wide tradition it has in England, Wales and other countries like Austria.
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