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Orchard Visit: Prospect Orchard, Llanidloes, Powys

A summer afternoon in June was the perfect time to visit the home of Welsh Mountain Cider.

Published June 25, 2022
Categorised as Cider, Feature Articles, Orchard Visits Tagged apple, Bill Bleasdale, cider, cider making, heritage orchard, Prospect Orchard, Welsh Mountain Cider

Leonard Mascall, on Cleanliness in Sixteenth Century Cyder-Making

“Keepe cleane your vessels, and the places wheras your fruite doth lye” are wise words to make cyder by in any century.

Published October 15, 2021
Categorised as Quotations Tagged C16th, cider making, cyder, Leonard Mascall

John Beale, on Sulphurous Cider Making

This 17th century snippet seems to be a method for making Brimstone-flavoured cider, unless I’ve read it wrong..?

Published February 22, 2021
Categorised as Cider, Quotations Tagged C17th, cider making, John Beale

John Evelyn, on the Use of Wildings for Cider

Sowing apple pips to grow wilding trees? “Facile,” says Mr Evelyn. “Hold my cider”, says Mr Brennan.

Published February 9, 2021
Categorised as Cider, Quotations Tagged Andy Brennan, apple, cider, cider apple, cider making, John Evelyn, wilding

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fruitworkscoop Fruit Works @fruitworkscoop ·
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The @natlibscotmaps site is a really powerful tool for finding where old orchards might survive. Go to https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/ and select the OS 25 Inch, 1892-1914 map layer and look for what looks like a clover leaf in a regular pattern. See this example in Yeadon.

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Rubus Ideaus , Suprise D automne raspberry from circa 1865-67 beautifully flavoured mild and sweet

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New Cider Musing. Nitrogen and cider. https://teepeecider.co.nz/blogs/cider-musings/nitrogen-and-cider #cider #orchards #climatechange #nitrogencycle

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