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June 2022
Thankfully we escaped May with no further frost and the fruit on the trees are starting to develop nicely. Some of th...
May 2022
Wow! A bumper year for blossom. The trees have been laden with stunning flowers and (touch wood) so far have largely ...
April 2022
Spring time at the cidery is great, not least because our hands don’t freeze while bottling and packing!
The orchard ...
Cool to the Core!
Bignose & Beardy celebrate being voted a Cool Brand by recognising other people, who actually are cool, with a ne...
March 2022
A quiet time of year at the cidery, providing that all important time and opportunity to get better organised – stora...
February 2022
Following on from January’s tasting and testing of our new spring batches, we are starting to firm up names – a retur...
January 2022
Happy New Year!
The cidery’s a chilly place to be at this time of year, in the outdoor fermentation area, the unheate...
May 2021 Club Letter
With such a cold April, the blossom has been slow to appear on a majority of the apple trees – as it turns out, not a...
April 2021 Club letter
Thanks for all the name suggestions for our new 2021 batches – we settled on ‘Cheeky Mick’, ‘Remains of the Day’ and ...
Bignose & Beardy Cider Cured Ham
One benefit of lockdown, has been the extra time available to try different things…..at B&B HQ, I thought I would...
March 2021 Club Letter
Along with warmer and lighter days, the animals at B&B HQ are reminding us of the time of year - the chickens pro...
Chocolate and Cider Pairing event - video and tasting notes
Our second pairing event saw us collaborating with East Sussex based chocolate makers Rowdy and Fancy's. A specialist small batch producer with great branding and a delicious product made them feel like a good fit. We weren't sure it would work but were pleased as punch when it did.