Apple press

Learn how to make apple cider with apples from your tree! Homemade apple cider with a DIY cider press is easy to make and delicious.

It was that time of year when all the apples were ready So I built this machine to press them and make lots of lovely juice. CIDER TIME I found an old car jack, it's this that supplies the power to press the apples. The timber frame could have been made to many designs, I decided to keep it simple. The timber used in constructing this press was once part of a shed that I demolished. An enamel baking tray was used to collect the juice. I fitted a drainage hole and a pipe to channel the juice…

Nothing says autumn like some fresh pressed apple cider in the orchard. Apple presses come in all shapes and sizes and can get very expensive and complex. Here is one design that you can build on a dime and requires some basic items one can find around the yard and house. Any work you put into this will be well rewarded with a jug of homemade cider. Drink it fresh, chill it, or heat it up with some brown liquor and cinnamon and enjoy by the fire.

18 different cider press plans to choose from when building your own cider press. One should l suit your experience level, so have a look at this selection.

“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This Leonard Cohen lyric really helped me through a tough patch this summer. Nothing was exactly wrong, but everything just seemed a little harder and my mood hung somewhere between melancholy and razor-edged. You know how sometimes you can feel like there’s nothing you...

Sometimes I get hair-brained ideas to build something that just seems cool. My Mom says my Grandpa was the same way. We prefer to build something rather than buy it if possible because we know we…

This Autumn, after going apple picking (pick a few bushels), grind and press them into tasty apple cider (a lot of it) with this stainless steel cider press.

You don't need an apple press or lots of fancy equipment to make a delicious hard apple cider from whole apples! Here's the process I have used in my kitchen for many batches of good cider.

Apple Cider Making Time documents an annual trip to an old apple press. We get about 80 gallons of homemade apple cider each year.

Bottling your own apple cider couldn't be easier!