Press cloth

Related terms

Terms that belong to the same part of the subject, or that this one is routinely confused with.

• Milling and pressing

  Hair

  A coarse cloth of horsehair, and later of woven synthetic fibre, used to wrap pomace in a press. The word survives as the trade name for press cloths regardless of what they are now made from.

• Milling and pressing

  Rack and cloth

  The standard traditional pressing method: pomace is wrapped in a square cloth to form a parcel, a slatted rack is laid on top, and the layers are stacked into a cheese and pressed.

• Milling and pressing

  Cheese

  The stack of pomace built up in a traditional press: alternating layers of pomace wrapped in cloth, or bound with straw, forming a squat block that juice runs out of under pressure.

• Milling and pressing

  Sanitation

  The routine cleaning and disinfection of everything juice touches. In a cider house it is the single most effective control on spoilage, and it is separated into cleaning, which removes soil, and sanitising, which reduces the organisms left behind.

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• Cider and perry production technical training material

  Peter Mitchell / Cider and Perry Academy · reference work · registered as competent for this subject

  Searched again on 2026-08-25 and it remains the one printed source here that a bibliographic check cannot fix, because it is not a published work with an edition. It is course material issued to participants of a training programme, so there is no catalogue record to verify, no ISBN, and no lawful public copy. Its state stays `registered` for that reason rather than through inattention.

• The New Cider Maker’s Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Craft Producers

  Claude Jolicoeur, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013. ISBN 9781603584739 · reference work · bibliographic record verified, not opened 2026-08-25

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