Cider equipment – fruit mills, fruit presses and fermenters for cider

To make cider from your own fruit you need to mill the fruit, press out the juice and ferment it. Here you will find fruit mills from Grifo and Speidel, hydropresses from 20 to 80 litres, manual fruit presses of 5 and 12 litres, plastic and stainless fermenters, Bag-in-Box for juice and a cider kit with ready-pressed apple juice.

How to make cider – the equipment step by step

Mill: Fruit must be crushed before pressing, or the juice yield will be low. The Grifo manual fruit mill has stainless blades. The Grifo AM1 has a 2.2 kW motor and crushes up to 1000 kg of apples or pears per hour. The Speidel fruit mill runs on a standard 230 V socket and ships on a pallet.
Press: The Vinoferm 12 litre fruit press and the 5 litre version are affordable manual presses. A hydropress, such as the Grifo PEW40 or the Speidel Hydropress 20L, presses with mains water pressure. A rubber membrane fills with water and presses the fruit evenly against the basket, with no electricity and no effort.
Ferment: The juice ferments in an ordinary fermenter, such as the Speidel 30 litre fermenter with airlock and tap, or the stainless Speidel UF 30 litre.
Store: Juice and finished cider can go into bottles, kegs or 10 litre Bag-in-Box.

The presses

Press	Volume	Type
Vinoferm fruit press	5 and 12 litres	Manual press, the 5 litre in stainless steel
Grifo PEW20, PEW40 and PEW80	20, 40 and 80 litres	Stainless steel hydropress
Speidel Hydropress	20 and 40 litres	Stainless steel hydropress

Membranes, straining bags and ball valves for the presses are also available. For cideries and larger production we carry the EnoBeer 250 litre hydropress, a 200 litre per hour pasteuriser and Speidel floating-lid tanks, all made to order and available in Norway only.

Cider without your own fruit

The cider kit with 10 litres of organic apple juice from Voss Gardspresseri is made from Aroma apples and gives you pasteurised juice ready to ferment. For cider from extract, see the cider extract kits.

Cider equipment FAQ

Do I need to mill the apples before pressing?

Yes. Crushed apples give far more juice than whole or roughly cut fruit. Mill the fruit just before pressing.

How does a hydropress work?

Fill the basket with crushed fruit and connect the press to a water tap. The water fills a membrane in the centre that pushes the fruit outwards against the basket, and the juice runs out at the bottom.