The Quy Mill fair

Come to the Quy Mill Festival at the Cambridge Quy Mill Hotel
& Country Inn this coming bank holday Monday. http://bit.ly/9gnlR3 There will be plenty to do and I will be selling my cyder on a stall. The organisers expect a bout a thousand people. Live music and hog roast too!

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

Cyder bottled!

Just finished my first bottling run for our cyder. Thanks to Mark from Moonshine Breweries and the chaps from Iceni for the help and advice they gave me on this particular journey.

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

Fordham Festival

The Fordham Music Festival starts tomorrow. Lots of great music and great cyder including our own. http://bit.ly/b0It8P Come down and have some fun.

Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook

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