Over on the ukcider cider community discussion group the same old topics keep coming around again, but each time with a seasonal variation and a new mixture of personalities. I thought I’d do a quick round up of current threads.
Low gravities of early juice
The poor levels of sunshine in the UK summer are blamed for low sugar levels in this year’s apples. The juice is predicted to be low in gravity and flavour, but this may only apply to ‘earlies’ because later fruit continues to ripen in the autumn, and in case it’s the yeast which accounts for a large amount of the flavour in finished matured cider.
Cider Field Research
Dave Reedy joins us from Hawaii. He’s doing a degree in Ethnobotany at University of Hawaii at Manoa, and has managed to specialise in the ethnobotany of cider and cider apples, even though there isn’t a single apple tree on the entire island! He’s also visiting the UK next month so perhaps we’ll have a meetup somewhere.
Still waiting
Ribbing camra for their failure to fulfil a promise to change the anomolous definition of real cider on the website.
French cider online
A new mail order service for bottled Normandy cider.
White labs cider yeast
Re-ordering soon. Dick doesn’t use it any more, but it could be the altitude. Andrew would like to know exactly which strain it is.
Ross on Wye cider festival
Reports from ukcider members who attended and had a thoroughly good time by all accounts.
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