Craft Cider Making

This new edition of the best-selling Craft Cider Making is fully revised and updated. Packed with essential advice and information, it provides step-by-step instructions for small-scale cider making. It retains the best of traditional practices while also incorporating modern understanding of orcharding and fermentation science. Written by an award-winning cider maker, it guides beginners into the rewarding world of cider making and helps those with more experience expand their skills to enjoy the craft more fully.

The book includes a guide to cider apples, as well as advice on growing and caring for them. It introduces equipment and processes, and provides instructions on how to make still, dry cider, sparkling, sweetened, blended, and keeved versions, as well as unfermented apple juice, cider vinegar, and perry. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting advice. This guide is primarily for makers working on a small scale, ranging from a couple of apple trees to several acres of orchard, and hoping to produce between ten and ten thousand litres.