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Apple Day 2015

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Nailsea Transition Town and Nailsea Cider once again teamed up together to bring Nailsea Apple Day 2015 to the good folk of Nailsea.  Between 1pm and 4pm (well, 5pm really) we pressed apples from all comers, and also some that had been collected by the Transition Group.  People brought along their own apples, we pressed them, and they took away the juice (or some of it).  There was also Coffee and Apple Cakes available and some Live music provided by Dave Francis.

We had made cider from last year’s pressing which was available to buy by the glass, and could also be bought in 3l Bag in Boxes just along the road at our friends at the Ring o’ Bells.

Apple Day Cider

We’re very excited that several varieties of old cider apples were picked up from Charlton Farm, where the Childrens’ Hospice are. 

A good day, and all in all we pressed over 200ltrs of juice.

More Apples, More Pressing, More Apples

We’ve been busy. We’ve had Annie’s Apples and combined them with a load from the Orchard, and those have been pressed

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There’s another 8 truggs from Sweet Briar ready to go too

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2015 Underway

As of this week 2015 production is underway. We’ve pressed apples from The Francis Estate, and some from Mott’s

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We pressed about 9 truggs of apples and have 85 ltrs of apple juice sitting waiting to be fermented. SG 1.050 so heading for 6.5% ABV

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We’ve compressed the 3 hours of pressing into a 4 minute video

Pressing Time

Pressing apples is not so straight forward as pressing, say, grapes. You get grapes, squash them in a press and juice comes out. Apples have attitude. You take a kilo of apples, shove them in the press and squash them, you’ll get a kilo of bruised and battered apples but little juice.
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Steve’s Apples

Had a call from Steve. He has trees that are laden with apples and they just fall. Time to go and rescue them.

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Mike, being a target for falling (and thrown) apples

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Been Harvesting

Spent our first afternoon harvesting apples from a garden in Nailsea. Took 3 truggs from Annie’s garden

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Mostly desert apples with a few culinary. Will be pressed shortly

Ring of Bells Cider Festival

 

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Ring of Bells Cider Festival

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Maintenance

A beautiful sunny afternoon at the orchard. The blossom has mostly gone now and apples are beginning to grow.

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Harvesting

Picked 6 trugs of apples at the orchard. Evil wasps came and stung us several times. Mike said they weren’t his wasps cos his wasps are bees.  Even so, we ended up with plenty of apples.

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Apples ready for pressing

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