Ep. 99 - Deep Dive and Tips on Crafting Apple Cider - with Mike Thomas

Tips on Crafting Apple Cider, Apple Propagation, and Apple Grafting. More detail than most books!How did the Sept. Regional Catholic Land Movement Conference go?We deep dive on Mike's apple cider steps:He ferments English bittersweet apples in oak barrels with natural yeast.Barrel prep with a cold water rinse and cold water swell.Fill the barrel to overflowing, with no headspace.Natural cool fermentation < 55 degrees.Rack into bottling tank. Cold weather crash the bottling tank. Then bottle in champagne bottles.The use of recycled wine oak barrels - does it impart into the cider?Apple cider vinegar - the end road result of failure.Propagation and Grafting.Growing apples rootstock from seed.Grafting apples onto homegrown rootstock.More info on the Catholic Land Movement: https://catholiclandmovement.info.Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/apple-ciderIt's September and I've already grown $236 of veggies and it wasn't even a bumper crop year.How do I know that? I use: Thriving Garden Planner tells you how much you need to plant, the spacing, etc. Plus track your planting, harvest, and compare to grocery prices to see how much you saved growing your own. This is my design. Now 20% off at ThrivingGardenPlanner.comIf you like this unique topic, shoot us a tip on Venmo @ThrivingtheFuture or CashApp $ThrivingtheFuture.Or join the Thriving Patreon at Patreon.com/ThrivingtheFuture. You get early episode, extra outtakes including the extra episode with Cyprian, e-books, and listen in on our chicken planning workshop as we plan out a season of hatching and processing chickens, and rotating roosters,