Thursday 4 November 2010

Preparations for the autumn's cyder making

Well I think all the preparations are complete for the next 10 days of washing, milling and pressing those cyder apples. I had a second juice collection tray fabricated so we can do 'double pressing' on a single press Voran press. Thats saves a few grand on upgrading! The usual suspects are coming along to help and we are pleased to have Ian coming all the way down from Aberdeen to help this year. The years harvest is large and we hope to press 8 tons or so and to aim for 4500-5000 litres. The process has never been so efficient with the new water supply so all looks good. We are taking down my mother statue of Bacchus, the god of merriment, so let us hope he smiles on the whole preceeding!


Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

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