Making Apple Wine

This is my experiment at making apple wine from McIntosh apples from my backyard apple trees. The most labor intensive part was chopping up my apples and feeding them through a standard kitchen blender to make apples sauce, then squeezing the apple sauce in a nylon straining bag for apple juice. It took several hours of chopping and blending a 5 gallon pail full of apples then squeezing the juice out of the pulp to get 2 gallons of apple juice. I really can't justify buying an apple/juice press, so I did things the hard way. If I were to make more than 2 gallons of apple wine, I would consider buying a fruit press. I will not have definitive results on my wine making experiment for at least 3 months. I should have plenty of booze for a New Year's Eve party I am thinking. For those people that are not wine drinkers, I do recommend a food dehydrator for apple slices as a project to do on the autumn harvest of apples. Dried McIntosh apple slices are delicious. One other garden vegetable I found I like really well dried are onions. The sweetness of the onion is increased when it is dehydrated because the sugar concentrates.

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