[superwolf]

(Original post by Daniel_R)
Does anyone else like kopparberg here?

Who doesn't?

[SciFiRory]

gonna try and convince my dad to stop off at the Thatchers shop on the way to camping on Sunday..

stock up on some, er, supplies for the week ahead

[superwolf]

(Original post by SciFiRory)
gonna try and convince my dad to stop off at the Thatchers shop on the way to camping on Sunday..

stock up on some, er, supplies for the week ahead

You bring us all presents?


I've started three litres of my own off to brew, plus prepared the mead.

[robo donkey]

I always fancied brewing my own still cider but that amount of apples I'm led to believe I'd need to buy always puts me off

[SciFiRory]

(Original post by superwolf)
You bring us all presents?


I've started three litres of my own off to brew, plus prepared the mead.

was mainly gonna be buying for myself but im sure I can be convinced to share

awesome

[superwolf]

(Original post by SciFiRory)
was mainly gonna be buying for myself but im sure I can be convinced to share

awesome

We can do swapsies - I have both homemade cider and mead. Also considering making some flavoured vodka. And remember - what goes around comes around.

[SciFiRory]

(Original post by superwolf)
We can do swapsies - I have both homemade cider and mead. Also considering making some flavoured vodka. And remember - what goes around comes around.

sounds good I look forwarding to trying both I see, haha

[CurlyBen]

(Original post by superwolf)
Neither - I'm just buying juice from the supermarket and using that. However for my next experiment I'm going to build upon a previous trial of apple juice mixed with homemade mixed berry jam which worked quite well, and try stewing cooking apples and then mixing the resultant mush with water and sugar.

I'd love to have access to all that cheap fruit and have a press, but pretty much completely infeasible for me. If you're into DIY I believe you can make your own press though - here's one on instructables (looks a bit complicated, but I expect there are simpler versions out there).

Unfortunately we're not looking to have as much fruit this year. Might still have enough spare though - we've got about 10 apple/pear trees!

Yeah I did think about making one, but I don't like the bottle jack designs and trying to find a big jackscrew works out quite expensive anyway. Annoyingly I just missed a good press on ebay!

How are you finding your cider?

[Sabertooth]

Went to 2 wetherspoon's today, wanting to try the festival ciders.

Both were out of ALL festival ciders.

[GirasoleL]

Recently made a ginger and lemon cider, unfortunatly I may have put in a little too much lemon, cause its quite sharp and lemony. I think if I make it again next time I'll only put a tiny amount or just do a plain ginger cider instead.

[rmhumphries]

(Original post by GirasoleL)
Recently made a ginger and lemon cider, unfortunatly I may have put in a little too much lemon, cause its quite sharp and lemony. I think if I make it again next time I'll only put a tiny amount or just do a plain ginger cider instead.

What other ciders have you done? Had a nice Ginger cider at Spoon's cider festival recently

[GirasoleL]

(Original post by rmhumphries)
What other ciders have you done? Had a nice Ginger cider at Spoon's cider festival recently

Apart from the lemon and ginger I've only done just a normal apple cider previously, but recently I've decided to experiment more with adding other flavours. Although my boyfriend recently made an orange cider, as he's into brewing too and that was pretty nice.

Oh, I've seen that ginger cider at spoons, didn't get around to trying it, but I do like a nice ginger cider. Might give it a taste next time.

[xander93]

Still haven't decidered which is my favourite

I'm really liking Friel's and Gaymers at the moment, although a classic scrumpy nevers goes amiss! I yearn for the Normandy cider I had in France two years ago though.

[superwolf]

Just bought myself a Wurzels greatest hits album. Will be singing along to songs about scrumpy and farm equipment in no time!

[OU Student]

(Original post by superwolf)
Just bought myself a Wurzels greatest hits album. Will be singing along to songs about scrumpy and farm equipment in no time!

The Wurzels played one of the local pubs a few weeks ago.

[superwolf]

(Original post by OU Student)
The Wurzels played one of the local pubs a few weeks ago.

That would be awesome. You'd have to get totally ratarsed, naturally.

[Sabertooth]

I saw that strongbow brought out a pear version.

Anyone tried it yet?

[superwolf]

(Original post by Sabertooth)
I saw that strongbow brought out a pear version.

Anyone tried it yet?

I have. It's actually not bad, I was pleasantly surprised by it. Nicer than their normal version.

[OU Student]

There's another (!) cider festival in Plymouth now. May go there next week (Brass Monkey) and see what they have.

[superwolf]

(Original post by OU Student)
There's another (!) cider festival in Plymouth now. May go there next week (Brass Monkey) and see what they have.

Lucky you! Enjoy yourself, and be sure to report back.