Single Batch Case of Lovely Dog 2024 Medium Sweet Cider

Style: Medium Sweet, Real Cider.

Strength: 6.4% ABV.

Year: 2024.

Attributes: Gluten Free, Unfiltered, Unfined, Vegan, Vegetarian.

Allergens: Sulphites.

Orchards: Greenway, Quarry Farm, Standen Street, Little Shepherd, Newick Community Allotments, Upper Brookhouse

Varieties: Field Blend

Newick Allotment Orchard
This community project planted an orchard alongside the allotments and 2024 saw it's first harvest with far more fruit than allotment members could use. We swapped cider for their surplus and look forward to including any more they have in the years to come.

Little Shepherds, Blackboys
A couple of lanes from us is this small private orchard, the hobby of the old owner. It is filled with mature trees, and some fascinating examples of grafting experiments with several trees bearing multiple varieties. When first invited to harvest fruit the orchard was overgrown and hard to access, now its looking in great shape and is home to a wide variety of animals and plants, including pesky deer who chew the young leaves and buds as high as they can reach.

Quarry Farm, near Battle
The cider fruit used in this batch come from Sussex's only commercial grower of cider apples, Quarry Fram. Most of the fruit used to get sent to the west country but we now turn up to pick in the Autumn so some at least stays local - adding rich tannin depth and a long finish to our ciders. They have a farm shop with an excellent cafe, if you happen to be visiting nearby Bodium Castle.

Greenway Fruit Farm
This commercial farm near Herstmonceux has 40 acres of sandy, free draining Sussex land. The advantage of supplying locally is that fruit can be picked ripe and sold fresh, which maximizes its taste, flavour and nutritional properties. We take their unsaleable apples helping to reduce waste and close the loop.

Standen Street Community Orchard
This community orchard has 100’s of co-owners. Originally set up in the 70’s as an investment scheme - to cash in when the houses got built. That never happened and never will now. Now all about community and apples, anyone can join and have a share in the orchard which has a huge variety of apples, plants and wildlife. Come and join us at their apple day for a picking session (Iden Green)

Upper Brookhouse Farm
This is our home orchard at the cidery: every tree a different variety.