Anyone interested in sharing a purchase of bulk pears for a Cider batch?

[Daron]

Ive found this site : "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:
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mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">http://www.fresh2me.co.nz/ which sells bulk fruit. The minimum order for pears is 100kg. Cost is $20.82/20kg so pretty cheap for fruit ! Think I'll be requiring 40kg to get 20litres of juice if anyone else wants to share the cost of a minimum purchase please PM me

[Patrick]

Do you have access to a press?

[Daron]

No, I was going to use a juicer (wife will probably kill me)

[Reviled]

haha, youre serious? You might be spending a few hours juicing that many pears ;o)

[Daron]

Haha....yeah your probably right.

[warra48]

How does one make cider from pears?
I thought pears make perry?

[Daron]

I call it Pear Cider cause I'm not so flash bro ;-)

[warra48]

Fair enough.
You make it, you call it whatever you wish!
Hope it works out for you.

I still have memories of my time living in NZ during the 1960s and 70s. We used to get Granny Smith apples at home by the case. Beautiful apples, and great eating. I just don't think the fruit I get here is anything as good as that.

[Reviled]

"I just don't think the fruit I get here is anything as good as that."

The thing I missed most when I was in the states (and when im in aussie as well for that matter) was NZ's apples, they are so awesome when you get a good one! I dont think it can be topped anywhere in the world!

Its a surprise we dont have more cider really? Allthough I guess its becoming more popular!