cyder bottling equipment in the post!

Awaiting delivery of my first consignment of 500ml bottles and bottling equipment. This will allow me to sell to private individuals and to off licenses and of course open my online shop! How exciting!!

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

Our cyder at the Hereford Beer Fest Hurrah!

Our cyder makes it's first appearance at the Hereford beer fest Beer on the Wye this weekend. I shall be judging a perry competition too! Perks of the job I suppose. I am quite honoured, should be a laugh in a beautiful setting on the Wye river.

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

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

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

Cyder in the sun 2

Cyder in the sun. The warmer weather has brought out the cyder drinkers. A new real pub in Cambridge has started selling our cyder. The Devonshire Arms in Cambridge offers a large range of local beers from the Milton Brewery. A steadily growing brewery which now at last has a pub in Cambridge, the brewery's local town. Their beers are superb as is the service of Don the bar manager.

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

Cider an Perry trials Putley

Cyder competition. Just returned back from Herefordshire where we attended the blossomtime cider and perry trials in Putley run by those lovely people from The Big Apple. We didn't win any prizes but got loads of helpful advice about the late fermentation of our cyder due to the long winter. We met loads of lovely people too. And drank lots of cider and perry. I do mean lots!

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

Cyder in the sun

Cyder in the sun. Well the good weather we have been having has certainly increased demand for our cyder in the real ale pubs in Cambridge. The cambridge Blue, The Empress and the Kingston Arms all had some similtaneously and it's only april! Can't wait for the new cyder batch to be ready. The cyder wil be tested in a couple of weeks and we hope to have a good one for the blossomtime cider and perry trials at the beginning of May.


Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook