Baked apple wash

[Stew8]

I’ve loads of apples and rather than make cider from apple juice, (crushing and pressing) I thought if I popped the apples in a oven (the aga is in all the time), let them soften and caramelise, into a fermentor with sugar and use a paint paddle to mush them up, may work.
What do you think?

[Stew8]

The apples were soft enough to mash easily. The sugar had caramelised and the smell was like mama’s apple pie.
I tipped it into a tub added water and bread yeast and it’s off like a rocket.
It’s got a really Apple pie smell....may take a week or so to ferment out.

[cranky]

I'm interested to see how this works out

added water and bread yeast

Bread yeast is a mistake with fruit, you will get better results with a good wine yeast.

[Stew8]

I’ll try it with the next batch -I’ve mountains of apples on the trees
Thanks for the suggestion Mr Cranky

[cranky]

If I had a mountain of apples I'd figure out a way to chop them and press them so I could do straight juice without watering it down and adding sugar. Of course I'm kind of a purist when it comes to the apples. In the past I have done hundreds of pounds with nothing but a small press, a food processor and some pillow cases. I'm not sure what your definition of a mountain is but I've been known to do a crazy amount of apples. Adding sugar and water are going to make it difficult to find the apple flavor. I'm not sure what baking them will do.

[Stew8]

For the first run, I cut 8 apples in half added them to the boiler and the result is rather Apple-ly.
The first ferment, the apples were not caramelised. I can’t wait to do the next barrel.
I’ll keep you posted....

[Steve Broady]

Doesn’t look like Stew8 has been active here for a while, but I’d love to hear how the baked apple brandy turned out. Has anyone else tried making it? I’ve been considering the same thing myself.

[WiAppleOak]

I may have to try this next year.