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Feb 1, 2023
Wassail!
Wassaile the trees, that they may beare
You many a Plum and many a Peare:
For more or lesse fruits they will bring,
A...
Jan 1, 2023
Tidying and Sorting - Bottling machine
After the busy festive period, January gives us an opportunity to catch up on a few tasks around the cidery - rearran...
Jun 17, 2022
We Won A Medal! - Our First Tap Night
Thankfully we escaped May with no further frost and the fruit on the trees are starting to develop nicely. Some of th...
May 6, 2022
Cool to the Core Winners - Brewhaven - Blossom everywhere
Wow! A bumper year for blossom. The trees have been laden with stunning flowers and (touch wood) so far have largely ...
Apr 15, 2022
The blossom is here - We are a COOL Brand (officially)
Spring time at the cidery is great, not least because our hands don’t freeze while bottling and packing!
The orchard ...
Mar 4, 2022
Cool to the Core!
Bignose & Beardy celebrate being voted a Cool Brand by recognising other people, who actually are cool, with a ne...
Mar 1, 2022
Getting Shipshape - Oak Matured Cider
A quiet time of year at the cidery, providing that all important time and opportunity to get better organised – stora...
Feb 2, 2022
Giant molehills - Leaking tanks - Buds on the trees
Following on from January’s tasting and testing of our new spring batches, we are starting to firm up names – a retur...
Jan 28, 2022
Its cold - Pruning - Batch Testing
Happy New Year!
The cidery’s a chilly place to be at this time of year, in the outdoor fermentation area, the unheate...
May 7, 2021
Frost Strike! - Lambs - Three Acre Collab
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...
Apr 7, 2021
New names - Keeping it local
Thanks for all the name suggestions for our new 2021 batches – we settled on ‘Cheeky Mick’, ‘Remains of the Day’ and ...
Mar 19, 2021
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...