this quintessential fall tale is told by Kelcy Weibel
Step 1: Go home for the weekend
Step 2: Dad reads a Craig’s List posting about free apples
Step 3: Spend the morning picking 140 pounds of apples in a stranger’s backyard
Step 4: Pick up an apple cider press
Step 5: Set up the apple cider press operation in the driveway, with the supervision of the dog
Step 6: Dump half a bucket of apples into the top of the press to be cut up (watch out… apple pieces will fly everywhere)
Step 7: Move the cut up pieces to the next bucket to be squished
Step 8: Crank to squeeze the juice out of the cut up apples
Step 9: Catch the cider in tubs
Step 10: Filter the cider (you’ll want a funnel, or in our case a makeshift funnel made out of a cut up plastic water bottle…)
Step 11: Pour into jugs! (Hopefully you have a lot of empty milk jugs lying around…)
Step 12: Enjoy your fresh cider! Just remember to pick the apple chunks out of your hair later on.
