The Cidermaking Process

Heading out to check on the crop

Culling the apples

Apples going into the hopper for sorting, then on to the elevator...

Hewes Crabapples at the start of the cidermaking process

Quality control

The apple elevator feeds the grinder below...

Thomas keeps the ground apples, or pommace, evenly distributed

Bill fills the bags of the pressing machine with pommace

Once the pommace is squeezed dry, it's emptied from the bags and the process starts again.

Chuck pitches the yeast into a stainless steel fermentation tank.

Our bottling setup

A case of Jupiter's Legacy, all boxed up and ready to be labeled.