Craft Cider Making: Third Edition - Andrew Lea

This new edition of the best-selling Craft Cider Making is fully revised and updated. Packed with essential advice and information, it gives comprehensive instruction for small scale cider making. It retains the best of traditional practice but also draws on modern understanding of orcharding and fermentation science. Written by an award-winning cider maker, it guides beginners through their first steps in cider making and helps those with more experience to expand their skills and understanding.

• Guide to cider apples, as well as advice on growing and caring for them
• Introduction to equipment and processes
• Instructions on how to make still, dry cider; sparkling, sweetened, blended and keeved versions; and unfermented apple juice, cider vinegar and perry
• Advice on troubleshooting
• Primarily for makers working on a small scale, ranging from a couple of trees to several acres of orchard and hoping to make between ten and ten thousand litres. 

Andrew Lea is a retired biochemist who started his career in the tea industry and then spent thirteen years at the Long Ashton Research Station (the National Fruit and Cider Institute), followed by twenty years in wider food and beverage research and consultancy. For that time he has also been a prizewinning hobby cidermaker with his own small orchard. Andrew is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology. 

Reviews:

'The definitive guide to artisan cider making' - Alex Hill of Vigo Presses and Bollhayes Cider

Publishers: The Crowood Press Ltd

ISBN: 9781785000157

Pages: 128

Weight: 105g

Dimensions: 167 x 71 x 229 mm