Ross always seems to be a man on a mission. Last time I left him unattended, I came back to find he’d built an enormous barbecue, with a rotating spit, powered by an old motorbike engine… (An old Honda CX500-CB for anyone interested). That project started when I whimsically said one day how much I’d like a hippy, bohemian half oil drum barbecue that I could paint flowers onto. His answer to this was the Megatron of all cooking equipment! Although it is very cool. He won’t let me paint flowers on it though.
This time, after having observed the amount of apples in the trees in our friend, Claire’s back garden, he decided to build a cider press! This is a documentation of the first weekend of the cider project, travelling down to Claire’s in Pevensey Bay and picking all the apples. Good times!
Loading up the Cider Wagon!
The apples we’ve scrumped *ahem* picked so far!
Grrrrr…
Beatrice, our navigator
The journey begins!
I’d like to point out at this point that it is a left hand drive campervan!
Me being a bit arty with long exposures
The next morning…
All the windfalls, too bruised for cider
This is Ross getting all scientific, using iodine to test for sugar levels to make sure the apples are ripe
Our awesome friend Claire, without her trees this would not have been possible!
This photograph was followed by me being told to “put the damn camera down and help!”
I didn’t
Tucking in to some of our crop!
Now they are stored for a couple of weeks before the pulping commences!
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Wow I am impressed. I look forward to seeing the results of all this manual labour (drunken cider binge blog post please!).
Of course!
Saw the word ‘cider’ and had to have a look! Some beautiful shots here Laura…and I love your van!
But the really important issue is…what are you going to call your brew?! x
Thank you so much Sarah! We’re not sure yet, we thought about “Apple’s Revenge” maybe? There are going to be about 3 different brews so we’ll get thinking! Any suggestions?!
Oooh, not sure I can better ‘Apples Revenge’…I always go for brews like that…the ‘Gut Rots’ etc!
Looking forward to seeing more posts about it – and seeing it documented with your fab photos!
Haha! Thank you, the best one we’ve come across was a Cornish cider called “Cripple Cock” with a picture of a cockerel on crutches on the bottle! Will keep everyone updated with the progress
My favourite pic is the one up an apple tree picking apples – excuse the pun
Har har…
Thanks
Ha…was going to mention ‘cripple cock’ but held back! My Dad drinks it. Think what you like of that.
Haha! Good man
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