Made homemade apple cider for the first time

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We have a huge over grown golden delicious apple tree in our back yard. It is my parents but they don't really use the apples. I made a few apple crisps and decided to try making apple cider. I looked up a recipe on pinterest for how to make it at home. The easiest recipe I found told me how I could make it in a crockpot. It only used water, honey, apples, and cinnamon if I remember correctly. When it was done cooking in the crockpot it smelled exactly like apple pie. I put it in the blender mand I strained it with a fine metal strainer but it didn't catch enough of the pulp. The recipe said to use cheesecloth and I went to town to find it. When I finally found it the guy who worked at the hardware store told me to just use an old pillow case to strain it. He said he had made apple cidar many times over the years. So I dumped it all through the old pillow case and squeezed it through and he was right it worked perfectly and didn't cost me anything. It was too bland so I added 1/4 cup of sugar and then it was perfect I thought. My kids hated it so I drank the whole gallon by myself the past week. I added a picture of the finished result in the pitcher.