After taking a year off in 2022, we decided that we were going to make cider again this year. Three crates of apples were ordered which allows us to make roughly 150 gallons of cider. We invite a few friends and neighbors over and get to work. In four to five hours we will have 200+ jugs of cider pressed and filled with plenty left over for making hard cider. The press is vintage, but we have upgraded it to be hydraulic. That makes pressing the apples so much more efficient. We drop a bushel of apples into the hopper to grind them up, that then falls down onto our…