Fermentation Support Forum

Anyone have a good one? I picked two 50 gallon buckets of apples today and will probably pick two more before pressing cider Saturday morning. I'm looking to try a couple didn't recipes, nothing to difficult though. Thanks.

we plan on freezing cider as well, anyone know if I can ferment cider that's been froze and thawed out? Or should I pasrurize it by boiling before I freeze which would make it so it won't ferment?

yes, you can definitely ferment frozen juice. last fall i bought some cider from a local farm, and a couple of the jugs had been frozen from the previous years' harvest (i wanted a particular apple to balance the sweet and tarts). i just mixed up the different juices in gallon glass jars with wide mouths, stirred a few times a day until i saw fermentation, and then racked into a glass carboy with airlock. after the primary fermentation had mostly ended, i decided to split it up into multiple half-gallon batches, adding different herbs or some honey to make cyser. i recently bottled it all, and have to say the cyser is so far my favorite.