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First Time Fresh Pressing Apples For Cider

This weekend was the first time I have ever done a "fresh press" batch of cider. I found a house in my local village with 3 apple trees out front, and they were more than happy for me to help myself.

31kg of apples became 10L of juice, which was a little less yield than I had hoped for. I made up the volume with some juice from the supermarket.

The apple crusher on the right was absolutely useless. No matter how small I cut the apples it would jam instantly. So I ended up using a blender instead. I think my yeild improved when I stopped using the blender to "dice" the apple, and instead used it to "mush". While the blender was on, I would chop apples using a segmenter.

Expecting a 6%ABV cider to come from this. Pitched Yeast, Pectic Enzyme, nutrient and some tanin powder. Juice pH was Ph3, so didn't adjust it with malic acid.

Hopefully I get cider and not vinegar! I rinsed the outsides of the apples in no rinse sanitiser and allowed them to drain, so anything nasty should be gone. That being said, there were a lot of black bits on the insides.

u/Gobboking — 3 days ago

▲ 6 r/Homebrewing

Wine tannin powder vs teabag /other tannin methods, for cider making. (Is tannin powder worth it?)

I'm looking to do a fresh press cider this year, and want to be ready to adjust acid, sweetness and tannins in my cider, as I don't know what sorts of apples I'm going to get, and how they will impact the final flavour.

Previously I've just added citra hops to cheap supermarket juice, to make something a little more complex. But this time, I want to focus on the juice a lot more.

Would love to hear from people who have brewed wine or cider using different methods of introducing tannins. Is the wine tannin powder worth it?

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u/Gobboking — 9 days ago

▲ 37 r/Hedgehog

Hedgehog goes out 2x a day for approx 20mins, then goes back inside. Should I be concerned?

Only recently moved into the hedgehog house. Prior to moving in, I only saw it in the dark at 10pm. Now that I have a camera on it all the time, I've noticed some very brief daytime appearances. I'm wondering if it just had bad fleas, as it's always itching and nothing else looks bad. Should I leave food and water out for it ?

u/Gobboking — 2 months ago

▲ 3 r/Home

Best way to deal with flies and wasps

Now the weather is a lot nicer, I'm eating outdoors a lot and have to keep the windows in the kitchen. The problem is that I get a lot of flies and wasps in the house and on the patio. I use the citronella candles at the moment but they don't do anything to help.

Can anyone suggest other ways to dealing with the flies and wasps?

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u/Gobboking — 3 months ago

▲ 1 r/Healthygamergg

Over the last year or so, I've managed to find myself feeling a sense of immense panic and dread over the specific concept of dying of old age, and the experience of death itself (for context, I'm not religious or spiritual).

I think this has been triggered by my interest in space, where the vastness of the entire thing is also incomprehensible and links to the concept of my mortality in my head. Every night, I get in bed, and my internal monologue tells me, involuntarily, "I'm going to die". Then, I feel waves of panic and dread. I tell myself it's normal and do breath work meditation.

I got over this before the end of 2024 initially. But then I got interested in space again because of artemis 2, and it sent my mind back to these thoughts at night.

I'm kinda sick of this getting in my head all the time. I would wager other people experience this sort of thing too. Would love to know what helped you reduce these intrusive thoughts for good. I definitely avoid listening to podcasts and video essays about space and abstract existential concepts now (even though I think it's really interesting, which sucks).

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u/Gobboking — 4 months ago

▲ 2 r/Hedgehog

I purchased a hedgehog house off eBay, as my girlfriend and I see a hedgehog doing the rounds past the kitchen window at 11pm every night.

Are there any recommendations for cheap cameras to watch the hedgehog house with? I don't think a trail cam would work well in the garden, as they tend to get strapped to a tree?

I saw a bird box camera on Amazon that you can put inside of things, would something like that work, or should I just angle a camera from the fence?

If anyone has any advice on best practices with hedgehogs in the garden then also feel free to comment! 😁

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u/Gobboking — 4 months ago