ukcider

It’s that time of year again when thousands of people in the Northern hemisphere are looking at all those apples ripening on the trees soon to fall and starting to think….hmmmm what a shame if they should go to waste again. So hundreds of people every day go onto the internet and look up “homemade cider presses“, “Plans for making a cider press“, “do it yourself apple crusher” and similar phrases. Many of them have a look at what’s on the cider wiki and some end up building their own version of Ray’s adaptation there. I like to think there’s a whole load of apples being pressed and made into homemade cider for the first every year. It seems as if hundreds of new craft cider enthusiasts are being drawn in to the hobby and a maybe a large handful starting out on the road to setting up a real cottage industry. In turn, many of their friends, neighbours and eventually customers will be exposed to the interesting and individual flavours of full juice craft ciders and so will be demanding of more of the same instead of the fake industrial versions which are currently monopolising the supermarket shelf cider sections and even the so called cider festivals put on by some pub chains and landlords.