The Fruit Tree FL Studio

Just made a batch of cider on monday, using juice from our apples trees. It’s still fermenting away in the kitchen and bubbling so much that their is apple stuff creeeping into the air lock!

I posted the recipe below. The only thing is that I added a shitload more suger so that I get the highest alcohol content possible. Im hoping for around 14% alcohol concentration. Of course cider of this concentration will taste like absolute shite, but I’m going to distill the brew (using my 5 litre pot still) and create an apple spirit. Drink and get shitfaced! I will post up my results. Basically all you need to make this brew is apple juice, sugar and wine yeast.

Simple Cider (to make 4.5l) by Peter Laycock.

A very easily made dry cider which is slightly acidic to the taste and can easily be adapted/modified as required, I find adding the petals of an aromatic, fully opened rose, picked on a good sunny day, can be added around day 4, giving a little subtlety to the bouquet and flavour.

Ingredients:-

4l Apple juice (Supermarket type, no added chemicals or sugar & avoid anything with “drink” in the name)
50g sugar (see Notes below)
5g (1tsp) Pectic enzyme
2.5g (1/2 tsp) yeast nutrient **
Wine yeast (white Champagne is best but any will do, even red)

1) Pour 1l of apple juice into a demijohn, add the sugar after dissolving in a small amount of warmed water (250ml or less), add the pectic enzyme, yeast (** nutrient need not be added as the juice should contain sufficient).
2) After 1 day add 1l apple juice, repeat on days 3 & 4. All the juice could be added on day 1 but this gradual process possibly gives more flavour. (See AWARD WINING WINES by Bill Smith - Nexus Special Interests, for further information.)
3) On the last day make up to about 4.7l (this allows for wastage).
4) Rack when finished.
5) Bottle in plastic “pop” bottles with 1 rounded tsp sugar per 500ml & keep warm for a few days for the bottles to get “fat” with the secondary fermentation.
6) Store somewhere cool for at least a month before trying.

Notes:- This cider would typically have an O.G. of around 1040 and a F.G. of 1000, giving about 5.8% ABV (including the priming sugar) and 0.74% acidity. For a less acidic cider the apple juice can be reduced to 3l and the sugar increased to 150g.
Stronger versions can be produce by adding extra sugar during stage 1, each extra 50g of sugar provides about 0.5% alcohol but do not sacrifice quality for alcoholic strength!

I usually make cider at the same time as I make a wine, just re-hydrate the wine yeast in a small amount of water as per the Manufacturers instructions, add an equal quantity of apple juice after 15min and again 1hr later, this working yeast can then be equally divided between the wine & the cider, preferably after a further 30min to an hour (not at all critical).

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Everyone has a different opinion on what the internet is for. But from my experience over the past 10 years that I have been online, I have come to beleive that one of the simplest ways to make money on the internet is to create a site and name it:

How to make money online

Try googling “How to make money online” and see how many god damn site’s are out there about how to make money online. The fact is that not just anyone can make money online. I am living proof. Over the past year I have made about $10 using google adsense and a couple of dollars here and their using various other methods of advertising.

If I said I didn’t start The Fruit Tree.info for money I would be lying. My main goal was to share useful tips about making music but now that I have kind of progressed to a level where it’s way too boring for me to simply just write tutorials especially when it costs me time and money (more than I make) to do so. Ok so I have gathered a little crowd of people who enjoy my tutorials but it is simply not inspiring me enough to continue to simply write tutorials. It’s like doing maths homework, it’s ok for a while but then it just seems so pointless that it’s not worth wasting your time on!

It almost seems to me that in order to make money on the internet you need to start a “How to make money on the internet” site. Trust me I’m not going turn The Fruit Tree into another one of these trashy site’s which brag (and probably lie) about monthly pay checks and “how I earnt $1000 in my first month of starting my website and how you can do it”. But what I am going to do with this site is use it as a place where I can share some inspiring life experiences and ideas with anyone who cares to read.

So keep an eye out for my next post “How I made $10 in a year by starting my own website”. Now that is simply a hot topic that I am sure everyone will be hanging out to read! Ha ha ha.

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I’ve been messing around with the format of The Fruit Tree just lately, I hope I haven’t caused too many issues for any one viewing my site, if so I apologize as I had to do all of the modifications online in real time.

Well I hope you enjoy my new header that I created. The aim was to freshen up the site, make it colourful and better looking and more appealing for users. Yay, no more lame dull grey header! (Sorry about the footer and the sidebar though I will get to that another day). As for now enjoy your saturday night out (or night in for all those who are tweaking their latest tracks).

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Hmm… you can tell it is friday because I am posting a picture of a beer I was drinking while thinking about what to post!

If Image-Line ever made a beer I think it would look something like this Carlton Dry Fusion. ”That’s not beer” I hear you say. “That’s some kind of bubbly flavoured girlie drink”. Well that’s exactly what I was thinking when I picked up a 6-pack from the local bottle-O.

Carlton’s Premium Lager with Natural Lime definately gets my vote for beer of the month. Girlie looking or whatever it’s the best thing invented since, beer. Brewed with natural lime and salt with no artificial presevatives.

Smooth tasting like a corona with a piece of lime, except that you don’t need a piece of lime because it’s lime infused! Go and try some for $15 a 6-pack it’s a good buy. Beer of the month.

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Here’s something interesting I found on Face-book just recently. If you don’t already know what Face-book is then I’m not sure which hole you have been living in! Face-book is a site in which you upload a profile and can interact with friends or random people on the Internet. It’s quite amazing the number of old school friends have contacted me through this program. You can search for basically any person’s name and send them a request to become friends. Well, there goes all my privacy, exploited by the internet once again!

OK, now to the brain teaser…. look at the image and if the dancer is spinning clockwise then you are right-brained. However if you see the dancer spinning anti-clockwise then you are left-brained. If you concentrate hard enough you can make the dancer spin either way. I’m not sure what it means if your like me and can see the dancer spinning both ways, but it’s certainly tripping me out and I can’t decide whether I am left-brained or right-brained! Have fun with this image, and pass it on to anyone who maybe interested.

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