Tuesday 8 June 2010

Fordham Festival

Our cyder will be sold at the Fordham Music Festival this year. This is a small well organised festival with lots of great music (Simple Minds hurrah!) and things to do, it is also child friendly. Very cheap for the entertainment provided and free camping too. Checkout their website Fordham Music Festival. They are supporting local mental health charities, so you will be having fun in a good cause.

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

Sunday 6 June 2010

Champagne style cyder

Last autumn's cyder has finally finished fermenting. So we were over bottling up about 400 bottles to referment in bottles producing a Champagne style cyder, much loved in the sixteenth century. We add a spoon full of sugar to prime each bottle, the cyder is then added and the bottle corked and wired. It is left for a year. Next year we will be drinking wonderful naturally fizzy strong cyder. We aim to produce a commercial version in a couple of years.

Champagne style Cyder at Checkley Brook