pulp and circumstance.

Last weekend we got to help press apples for cider out at Seth's parents home. After not having helped out since October of 2009, we still remembered the basics. It's kind of like riding a bike, in that way.

First you wash the apples.

Then you rinse them.

Then you slice the ones that are too large to fit through the grinder.

Grind up on it.

Once your bucket is full you twist, twist, twist the juice right out of it.

NOM. I won't deny that I came over here with a cup on more than one occasion to get a few gulps straight from the press.

Then you strain it into jugs - some for fermenting into hard cider, and some for drinking right away.

Now that's what I'm talking about.