hard cider is an alcoholic beverage made
from the fermented juices of apples
Since it's made from fermented fruit
hard cider can technically be considered a
type of wine and is legally often
defined as such
In the U.S. there are
generally three classifications of Apple
beverages: Apple Cider which is usually
the straight non-alcohol juices from pressed apples
Apple Juice which is
cider has been filtered pasteurized and
sweetened while still remaining
non-alcoholic and Hard Cider which is apple
cider that's been fermented to become
alcoholic and many other countries
alcoholic hard cider is just referred to as "Cider"
Cider can also be made from
other fruits such as pears which is then
referred to as Perry having already
picked apples before from earlier
project last year but I let someone else
help out on this one
hi i'm nick butler and i'm here to steal
Andy's job
now i do have a broken ankle and it's
gonna be a little difficulty, they didn't give
me any vicodin at the hospital so I'm
here to make next best thing
hard cider
after helping pick a few apples the
first step was to put them in the scratter
here can you take these for me? Yep
Thank You
Whole apples are now
thrown in and broken down into small chunks
Do you guys have any like pots to put my head?
I mean, I feel like I need to get the whole experience
with my head, a little Johnny Appleseed, right?
Well, I think there's some kind of technique to
it and I don't have it
Working hard for my booze
pretty good I didn't think this was going
to be like hard work.
do I get to crank this thing now? No, no, not at all. Quarter done.
Quarter done? Yeah, you're quarter done
I'm all the way sweating
Here we go fellows let's get to
get to halfway.
You know it's more satisfying
when you get drunk you know where it
came from. And all the sweat equity.
Yeah, like I literally sweat into
this batch of cider
You know, this is just satisfying work out here with a
broken ankle just mashing up some
apple. I really can't wait to get
drunk with Andy George
The fruits of my 10 minute Labor
Once pulverized the apples are then ready to be pressed and
the juice is extracted.
Ready to squeeze? I'm ready to squeeze.
alright let's fold sack over and get going.
Let's fold the sack over.
Here we go, this is more my speed really, just doing this
I feel like we should be singing some
kind of song like an old sailor song
...like. ♫ "Ninety-nine bottles of cider..." ♫ oh woah, woah!
settle down, reverse crank Ok. I think we
need some better signals. We good?
Almost. Alright. Switchy!
"Switchy"? I don't know what that means- Alright, crank 'er down! Ok switchy, I get it
♫ Heave-ho, heave-ho, the apple cider's low heave-ho, heave-ho ♫- Come on guys!
♫ the apple ciders low! ♫ ♫ We're going to drink it hard ♫
♫ we're gonna drink it slow ♫
♫ heave-ho, the apple cider's low ♫
Need some, need some oil
We're done! That's it!
Yes! Hard cider!
How long's it gonna take before we have we
have actual hard cider? It can go
anywhere from a week to a year. A year? A year.
Let's go a week.
I'm more like the bathroom hooch kind of guy.
Oh, we're done cranking. We're done.
Now reverse crank.
Now we got to do the clean up. Clean up? That's for the
employees give me a high-vis shirt
if I'm on staff
yeah apple DJ. DJ apple juice
leftover Apple waste is then tossed and
composting then we got to taste some of
the freshly pressed cider
Do you want in on this? I want in
I'm a little eager.
Ah, that's fresh pressed
But there's still no booze in that, so they let me taste a
batch of hard cider they have previously brewed.
There you go, there's your finish product folks.
The finished product.
Yeah? I like. This is hard cider.
That's right. It feels more like the wine
actually more than the cider because is it?
This is a bit dryer
This is year vintage. Year Vintage. 5.9%
Appley. Well the process takes
at least a week
I can't hobble around my leg that long
so i guess it's PBR for me.
Now that Nick's successfully produced some cider,
he's going to go brew his own batch
meanwhile i want to take some of his
juice make my own unique hard cider so
with "How To Brew Everything"
I want to explore both the traditional beverages
and also some of the more extreme
examples of what can and can't be turned
into alcohol. For ciders, which are
traditionally done with fruits want to
take a more interesting fruit the durian
and see if I could turn that into cider
Durian is best known for its smell.
Right now it doesn't have too much of smell
see what happens when I cut it open.
I can smell it already. It smells...ripe
pretty well-defended with lots of spikes
it's got the smell to defend itself too
why would people eat this? everything about
it says "don't eat me" Mmm...that stinkyness
Can I smell it? that smells like a wet pile of
garbage. That means it's good
That is just aweful! I feel like I'm gutting a rotten animal
that's what smells like at least.
I thought it'd be a lot worse
I think it's warming up because it's I
feel like it is getting stronger
I'm really curious how the drink itself
turns out. If it's going to retain the smell
or if it's gonna get diluted interesting
Interesting flavor and texture very gooey like
boogers. Let me try some boogers.
I don't know how to describe it. Oh god. Hey man you want some?
Sure why not? That seriously feels like a booger. Tastes kind of like sweet and hot garbage.
Yeah, I guess that's one way to describe it.
Gooey. So tasty. Gross smell,
gross texture, gross process it's gonna
be delicious when it's done....or not.
Got one durian worth of durian meat in there now
Smells so disgusting.
So next we'll add some of the cider we had Nick collect for us
little too fast.
Oh dude, that's pouring all over your shoe.
I had an accident
Oh what happened? Stopper went inside.
The stopper went inside? That's probably not good
it's gone. Want to try some durian?
Oh he likes it! Likes it more than you do.
Dogs love durian! Now the question is
does your dog like it or does your dog just eat everything?
I'm thinking the latter.
The only thing is going to eat now: $20 durians
I got that all mixed up
let's add some yeast. Now we just got to add
the stopper here and you're supposed to sterilize it
didn't pick up any sterilization but we
have some of our leftover mezcal we
picked up in Mexico so we'll use that
was about a hundred dollars so...good use
alright give it a couple weeks.
While mine is left to ferment, Chris took the remaining
apple cider and some ingredients we have
left over from previous projects
to experiment with creating some other
unique hard ciders
Now everything just needs to ferment for
at least a week, then it's time to try
all of our ciders. Check that out in the
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