Cider Press Day 2009!

Saturday 10/17 is the Yakima Homebrewers Cider Press day. We'll be pressing apples to be used in hard cider. I hope it will taste better than last year's batch. That just was too dry and packed a punch. This year I hope to shock the yeast - have it ferment enough to be alcoholic, but hopefully the fermentation will happen fast enough to shock the yeast and stop fermentation. I might have to chill it at some point too to stop the process. I want it to be a little bit sweet. I wonder if I can add some non-fermentable sugar to it so that it is still sweet, but the alcohol can still be present....hmmmmm. I need to think about this a bit.