Perry and cider - the non turbo way!

[booldawg]

I've been eyeing up the 3 pear tree's at work and it seems a criminal waste to see all the fruit rotting away on the ground. I've always seen making 'proper' cider and perry as an awful, messy waste of time using expensive gear that only sees action once a year. This however, has not quelled the spark in me to mash up and collect the juice of a 100 weight of pears and brew a truly traditional perry. This'll be for 2011 - try buying a fruit press off e-bay in September!

May question is; what kind of weights are you looking at to yield 23L of pear/apple juice and what kind of abv would they end up without the addition of extra sugars?

Also what would be the best option to obtain/build a fruit press, say about 9L in capacity? (from what I read the capacity will give about half in juice eg. a 4.5L press will hold 4.5kg of fruit and give 2L of juice)

[Geezah]

If you give me the dimensions of the size of press you would like, I could make it all bar the stainless steel tray and cheeses/woods.
My price would be well inside an ebay price, but you would have to collect/pay for collection etc..

[Yeasty Rob]

This however, has not quelled the spark in me to mash up and collect the juice of a 100 weight of pears and brew a truly traditional perry.

Are they proper Perry pears. Dont think I've seen proper ones before, would be good to use the proper ones.