Hot apple cider from apples

Hot Apple Cider Recipe (Stovetop, Slow Cooker & Instant Pot Instructions)

Whether it’s wielding icicle lightsabers at their grandparents or plunging fully clothed into the ocean in December, my kids seem determined to enjoy each year’s winter play opportunities to the fullest. When they come in to warm up I usually serve herbal tea, but sometimes I surprise them with this easy hot apple cider recipe. Like my homemade hot chocolate, it’s a rare treat, but it’s one that comes with a bonus. It serves as the base for hot buttered rum. 🙂

Making apple cider from scratch is so much easier than you might think. You don’t even need to core the apples – just cut them into four slices, add some water, spices and a few orange slices if you have them – then simmer until your whole house smells delicious and your family starts wandering into the kitchen to see what’s going on.

Oh, and one quick note: I often blend this hot apple cider with a little butter to make it creamy. Basically, it’s buttered rum without the rum, which tastes amazing and helps keep my kids blood sugar stable while they sip.

If you want to try it you’ll find details in the recipe, but first you might be wondering . . .

What are the best apples for making hot cider?

There are a lot of opinions on this subject. Personally, I’ve tried using all sweet apples (honeycrisp, gala, fuji, etc.) and a mix of sweet and tart like granny smith. I like the mix, but ultimately it’s the spices that really make the cider shine and both are absolutely delicious.

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How to Make Hard Cider From Whole Apples, Without a Press

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We have been busy around here! There is so much fruit falling on the ground or withering on the branches, and we feel compelled to put as much of it as possible to good use! Yesterday, we started our third batch of hard cider so far this season. While we worked, we enjoyed a couple glasses of our first batch– it’s fun to work on a home brewing project that you can drink so soon.Quite a few people have asked me about how to make hard cider from whole apples, without using a press. We have never had the luxury of using an apple press– maybe someday we will be so lucky, but for now we have a pretty good method just using a juicer. Hopefully you can go get some apples, pears, or crab apples and make some drinks!Just a note before we get started– I make unpasteurized, wild cider. This means that I use the wild yeast already present on the fruit skins. While this produces a very authentic English-style cider, I know that not everyone is comfortable with unpasteurized juice, and some don’t like to gamble with the flavor of wild yeasts. I’ll include some modifications for these concerns at the end of the post.

How to Make Hard Cider From Whole Apples

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You don’t need an apple press or lots of fancy equipment to make a delicious hard apple cider from whole apples! Here’s the process I have used in my kitchen for many batches of good cider.

Ingredients

• Apples, pears, or crab apples (to be mixed with sweet apples.) About 15 lbs. of fruit gets us about a gallon of juice. Must be fresh and organic. We just use foraged fruit. Try to include some crab apples or tart apples with your sweet ones for a better, more balanced flavor.
• A juicer. If I could do it all over again, I would probably buy a masticating juicer which would make the process easier. But any juicer will work!
• A chopping knife and cutting board.
• A large sieve and a clean kitchen towel.
• Demijohn(s), a funnel, a siphon hose, rubber stoppers, and airlocks. Some people simply stretch a balloon with a pin prick in it over the demijohn instead of using an airlock. This is one of the easiest brewing projects, in terms of equipment needed.
• Sugar (I like to use organic brown sugar.)
• Swing-top bottles.

Instructions

• Wash your fruit well with water. I don’t use any vinegar or veggie wash because I want to keep the yeast on the skins on the apples.
• Cut your apples into quarters. This is mostly just to check for bugs or other issues with the apples. Discard or cut around any that have an infested core, and cut out major bruises. It’s nice to have a partner for this part, and it’s the perfect job for a kid with basic knife skills. But I have done it by myself, too. Transfer chopped fruit to a clean bowl by your juicer. You don’t need to worry about coring or taking stems out– the juicer will do that for you.
• Start juicing! As your juicer pitcher gets full, pour it through a funnel into a sterilized demijohn.
• When the pulp container starts getting full, take a few minutes to squeeze the juice out of the pulp. Place your sieve over a clean bowl, and line it with your kitchen towel. Put a couple heaping handfuls of pulp in the towel, and gather the edges and twist to wring out as much of the juice as possible. My own juicer is not great, so I actually get 50% of the total juice this way. Your pulp (now called pommace) should be really dry when you’re done, and you can just compost it. Pour the juice into the demijohn, and get back to juicing.
• Once you have juiced all of your fruit, taste the juice and add sugar. This is where a little guesswork will come in, because the acidity and tannin content, as well as the sweetness of your fruit will vary. I usually add about a cup of sugar to a gallon of juice, and I don’t like mine very sweet. During the fermentation process, the yeast will eat the sugar (both the fructose from the fruit and the added sugar) and turn it into alcohol– so this step is both for flavor and alcohol level. Those of you in the USA may not really need to add much sugar, as most of the apples there tend to be really sweet. Don’t get hung up on this step, as you can add more sugar later if the brew is turning out too dry or tart for your taste.
• (This step is optional, depending on whether you have a lot of foam/ pulp floating at the top of your demijohn.) Put your demijohn on a tray or in a bowl, and keep it in a warm spot for about a day or so. The yeast will start to become active, and things will get bubbly. Your cider will split into layers, with foam floating on top. If your demijohn is pretty full, the foam will come out the top. I think this is great, as it’s a good way to get rid of that funky stuff.
• Put a rubber stopper and an airlock on your demijohn, and let it sit for a week.
• Rack your cider— siphon it into another sterilized demijohn, leaving the yeasty sediment in the bottom of the first one, so you have a much cleaner cider in the new demijohn. Taste it and see how it’s doing. If it’s already tasting pretty dry, you can add some more sugar before you put the airlock back on.
• Some people like a pretty sweet cider, and bottle it after a week. I like mine pretty dry, tart and strong, so I usually give it three weeks or even more. Fermenting it this long means that it won’t be very fizzy in the end– but you can also add a little sugar just before bottling to regain some carbonation. This is totally up to you, of course. You could experiment and bottle half to drink and leave the rest for another week. Whatever you decide, the next step is to bottle your hard cider. Use the siphon hose to fill swing-top bottles. The type of bottle is really important, since it lets out small amounts of the pressure that builds up, so you don’t have a glass explosion later.

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And you’re done! Enjoy!

[Update: My expert cider-maker brother Nathan has done an excellent guest post on 10 Tips for Making Better Homemade Cider that you will definitely want to check out!]

Some adaptations for your homemade cider…

For pasteurized hard cider— heat your juice up to 185º F in a pot over the stove. DO NOT let it boil, just keep it there for 45 minutes, stirring. This will kill all of the natural yeast, and once it is cooled you can add a commercial yeast when you add the sugar, and skip step # 6.

To use commercial yeast in raw cider— buy some campden tablets and crumble one per gallon, and add to cider. Wait 48 hours before adding commercial yeast and sugar. Skip step #6. (This method is not recommended if you are sensitive to sulphites.) For what it’s worth, my brother who is a pretty serious home brewer, adds wine yeast to the cider without killing off the wild yeasts first. The combination of wild and commercial seems to work really well for him– so there’s another option!

Commercial yeasts you can use: I can buy an apple cider yeast at our local home brewing shop, and that may be the case for you, too. But a lot of people just use an ale yeast (this one is popular) or a champagne yeast.

Note: You can also use the leftover yeast from another successful cider. This could be a great option if you have a friend who brews cider, or if you got a wild yeast cider that you liked the flavor of. You will still need to kill the wild yeast in your fresh cider (either through heat or using campden tablets) and then introduce the dormant yeast from another brew.

To make hard cider with fresh pressed, purchased juice, just skip to step # 7, and modify depending on whether you want to pasteurize, use commercial yeasts, etc.

If you want your hard cider to stay sweet, then you can stop fermentation at any point using campden tablets (one per gallon.) Or, you can just put it in the fridge to slow down the fermentation process, and start drinking. Another option is to pasteurize the cider by heating to 160ºF in a water bath for at least 10 minutes, which will kill the yeast (I have never tried this myself.)

If you end up loving your home-brewed hard cider and get tired of juicing, then you may want to check out this small press for the home, or you can just build your own apple press!

For a whole bunch more variations and ideas on how you can tweak your hard cider, here is a good resource. And lastly, if you’d like to do it all without any juicing, try making a flavorful cider using just apple scraps. Most of the flavor is in the peels, so this works pretty nicely, especially if you are making a bunch of apple pies and don’t have plans for the peels.

I hope you will all try your hand at making some hard cider this year with the fruits around you– it’s a lot of fun, totally delicious, and a great way to enjoy fall. Cheers!

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Hot Apple Cider

What a tasty treat on that chilly fall day. So easy to make, so fun to share—and it takes only minutes!

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Ingredients

• 4 cups (960 ml) water
• 2 (360 g) medium apples, halved, seeded
• 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 2 (30 g) medjool dates, pitted
• add additional seasoning if desired like spices

Directions

1. Place all ingredients into the Vitamix container in the order listed and secure the lid.
2. Start the blender on its lowest speed, then quickly increase to its highest speed. Blend for 7 minutes 30 seconds or until heavy steam escapes from vented lid.
3. Use seasonal apples with bold flavors such as honeycrisp, gali, or fuji.

Chef’s Notes

Adjust the seasoning by adding more or less cinnamon and dates. Try adding a slice of fresh ginger, or a pinch of nutmeg and cloves to the blend to create a more flavorful hot cider. If you have a large group, you can easily double this recipe in the 64 oz. containers. Whole-food health involves utilizing the whole fruit/vegetable, including fibers, for maximum benefits.

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Fixed some known issues.

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Cripples the Smooth 4

It’s disappointing that this app is needed to get the full experience from my gimbal (Smooth 4), because it lacks certain key features. The Smooth 4 is targeted towards content creators, yet they don’t allow people to have full customization for basic things like shutter speed, ISO, and frame rate.

Frame rates like 24 FPS are only available in 4K (sometimes I want to shoot in 1080 to save space). You can’t shoot slow mow. But perhaps the most infuriating thing: you can’t achieve a shutter speed/ISO setting that’s ideal for the “film look.” When shooting 24 FPS you ideally want a shutter speed of 1/48. The closest you can get is 1/50 (competing apps allow you to select exactly 1/48). But the bigger issue is: in manual exposure mode you can only go down to 100 ISO, when apps like FiLMIC Pro and Moment allow you to go down to about ISO 20.

On a final note: the object/face tracking feature stinks and hardly ever works. I’ve had my Smooth 4 for a few years, and I love the gimbal, but I was hoping the software would be fixed by now, but sadly it isn’t.

Information Gathering

Do not install this app!
It seems to be made primarily to gather information about you and your device. I played around with it for about 30 minutes looking for the utility, but at no point did I ever see the utility for operating the gimbal itself. The App wants information and access to all your photos, your location, and your microphone, plus it wants you to sign up for an account. I finally relented to the account signup using a Facebook Account with not much information on it, but even Facebook rejected the signup. I gradually also allowed it access to the photos, mic, and location and that opened up a little more info but still no controls for the gimbal. There are video tutorials, a way to connect with other users by joining some social media thing of theirs, and an operating manual download within the app, as well as information about their other products, but no actual controls to adjust or operate the gimbal. I even tried to download the Mac utility to see if that would work. This package comes directly from their website and not the app store. It was unsigned and not recognized by apple. Very suspicious, and disappointing. I would just stick with the onboard controls built into Gimbal and forget about being able to do more with this thing. I also uninstalled the app.

Initial use: needs usability

Just installed it. used for 30 minutes.. had to swipe up to kill the app when it lost communication with the gimbal and locked up.

Editing a custom setting is crazy bad User experience. rather than tap/hold/anything to edit it, with it selected you go into custom again (who would guess?), and when you save, give it the same name (OMG I had to type the name in again!)

Then you find it didn’t save the changes..

I finally got it to save after about 3 tries..

Moving the camera doesn’t seem to work smoothly (from UI), it can lock if not in the right mode (I guess you set the mode on the device. as the app doesn’t talk to the device. Oh, wait it does! Oh, maybe it needs to be set there because the app was written by someone else and they have no control over the app and device? no, that isn’t it. just stupid I guess.

Gave up on using this thing for the night.

Will try out the device on a shoot.

Didn’t seem to come with the cable to control the camera, wanted access to EVERYTHING, GPS even. why? Photos? Why? Need to use to control gimbal.

And the gimbal doesn’t seem to stabilize the camera enough to turn the zoom by hand without spinning the roll. so, yeah, I want to just lock the roll hard, using the thumb screw. they didn’t provide. no way to lock it for a pan/tilt (say if using at s theater to film?)

May not be useful at all to me..

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