I have started my first small batch of cider for the year. I hope I make a better job of it than I did last year, it's not that it went wrong, it just didn't go right and it was all my fault. But that was last year and this is a new start. As my orchard isn't really in production yet I am only playing at cider brewing at the moment so I have been using a juicer as it isn't worth me setting up with a proper scratter and press at the moment and I haven't got my shed built yet. I suspect that my wife would do a little more than frown at me if I started using a scratter and thirty forty litre hydropress in the kitchen. No, as ideas go it is a very bad one. But back to now, I think I have killed my juicer, poor thing, it was my fault, I was expecting a little much of a domestic juicer. So, just to prove a point, I'm buying another to finish the season. I expect to wreck this one as well but if it gets me through the trial period before I invest in proper equipment that will be okay with me. I'll report the results as they happen.
I picked my last plum yesterday. It was the only plum on my three year old Haganta. I ate half of it and managed to stop myself eating the other half. I managed to give the other half to my wife though it was harder than opening my wallet. (That's saying something, I am a Yorkshire man.) The plum was fantastic, possibly the best plum of the year and the pigeons did leave enough blossom for me to get three green gage.
More to follow.
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