Harvest(ing) Festival

8 tonnes of apples? That’s a lotta juice.

Greetings, Ciderling!

🎶 Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green…

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again (and we’ll probably say it next time, too) there’s just something about this time of year that makes us all shiny-eyed and nostalgic.

The damp leaves. The crisp winds. Autumn takes us back to being kids. It reminds us of rooting around the back of the kitchen cupboards for a can of mouldy kidney beans for the school harvest festival assembly.

🎟️ You’re in the mix

Don’t worry, we’ve got something much nicer planned than mouldy kidney beans for our monthly prize draw. Which you’re automatically in by the way, just by being a subscriber. Good, eh? This month we’re kicking off with a bang! Our October prize winner will receive a mixed 12-pack of…

This Little Piggy
I’m Still Standen
Scraping the Barrel

Sidenote: Mouldy Kidney Beans would be a great title for a folk album.

🗳️ Dontcha know?

I’m Still Standen  was voted by customers as their favourite cider at the Brickmakers Alehouse Autumn Beer and Cider Festival. We're chuffed!

And on the subject of how popular our cider is (aren’t we modest?) we bagged a silver medal for Scraping the Barrel  in the International Cider Challenge 2024.

https://internationalciderchallenge.com/ 

🍻 Cidery Tour

We’ve added a Saturday cidery tour date by popular demand, because we know not everyone can make it on a Friday. Come on down to the farm on Saturday 15th November for a (frosty? maybe!) tour of where the magic happens.

🚜🍏 Apple appeal

The apples just keep on piling in. So far, we’ve amassed a mind boggling EIGHT TONNES of apples. That’s a lorra lorra juice. 

If an average apple weighs an average of 0.33lbs (and it does, according to the interwebs) there's an estimated 53,445 apples in eight tonnes.

And if each apple yields an average of 200ml of juice (and it does, according to the interwebs) that would make a total of over 10,000 litres of the food stuff already. 10,689, to be precise. We probably can’t quite squeeze all that juice out with our kit, and we'll lose a little through evaporation as the natural yeast does its fermentation work. But it's still pretty cool. So far we’ve tanked up 6,000 litres. Good times. This is why we always say Autumn’s the busiest time of year. So, bye for now!

Cheers!
BN&B

PS: just going to squeeze one more “mouldy kidney beans” into this, for fun.

PPS: Botulism is no joke though, please don't eat mouldy kidney beans.