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	<title>Cider by Rosie</title>
	<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie</link>
	<description>Cider by Rosie blog - The Cider Making Year by Rose Grant in Dorset</description>
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		<title>Reality dawns!</title>
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The big 6000 litre tank is nearly in position behind the ciderhouse.
Chris and Ness who live a few doors away have a fencing business. They
kindly offered to take the tank from the garden and transport it to
the back of our place using their large tractor. It was quite an
amusing little scene, but one that needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/reality-dawns/</link>
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		<title>My website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two and a half years ago I began to think about having a website. I
mentioned this to Andy Roberts. I told him that I was not in a
particular hurry but that I felt I needed to make a move in that
direction and asked for his advice. He advised me that it would be a
good idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/my-website/</link>
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		<title>A question of yeast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is often discussion amongst cider makers as to whether it is
best to use a wine yeast for fermentation, or just to let the natural
or &#8216;wild&#8217; yeasts of the apples themselves do the job. I like my cider
to be entirely a product of the apple and for me this means that it is
essential to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/a-question-of-yeast/</link>
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		<title>Steam Cleaning Oak barrels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#62;
&#62;  BucklandSwifty wrote:
&#62;&#62; I have two 40 gallon oak ex whiskey barrels, one of which was used to
&#62;&#62; mature last years cider in.  I am pondering the best way of cleaning
&#62;&#62; it.  There is only the usual bung hole in the top, I had thought of
&#62;&#62; half to two thirds filling with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/steam-cleaning-oak-barrels/</link>
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		<title>High excitement and a bit of bother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of last November I spent a sunny day on my knees in
Venetia&#8217;s orchard picking up the last fallers from amongst her various
cider apple trees. I had previously collected the Yarlingtons, but now
the Dabinetts had decided that their time had also come. The grass was
full of them, beautiful, big and rosy. Next along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/high-excitement-and-a-bit-of-bother/</link>
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		<title>Cider Festivals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Powerstock report I noted, what I have come to see, as an
increasing trend for dedicated cider festivals. Powerstock is of
course a prime example. I have always thought that cider as a beverage
has more than enough variations of flavour and form to excite the
interest of the general public in &#8216;cider only festivals&#8217;. Since
Powerstock I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/cider-festivals/</link>
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		<title>[ukcider] Powerstock Cider Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our annual &#8216;not to be missed&#8217; event in Dorset was the best yet, in my
opinion.
The sun was shining and I felt on top of the world, driving once again
over glorious Eggardon hill, then down and down the narrow rutted
little road to Powerstock far below. It was important to get there a
little early so as to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/ukcider-powerstock-cider-festival/</link>
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		<title>The big tank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I decided to take my two ex winery aluminium &#8216;Sputnik&#8217; tanks
to the scrapyard. They were taking up too much room in the ciderhouse.
I was also not convinced that their internal enamel coating would
continue to survive being immersed in cider for a great deal longer.
Scrap metal prices were good and I was able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/the-big-tank/</link>
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		<title>Europump repairs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I mentioned the ease with which a Europump can be
dismantled for cleaning and repair. From my own experience and from
what I have heard from other owners of this useful little pump, there
are two components that are most likely to fail after several years of
use. These are the drive spring that connects the motor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/europump-repairs/</link>
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		<title>Re: [ukcider] Re: Blending keeved cider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mulling over the pearls of wisdom from David and Gary with
regard to the errors in SG measurement due to temperature variation
and the phenomenom of stratification. When making dry cider these
effects are of no great concern. Apart from the all important
measurement of SG prior to fermentation, thereafter the hydrometer
really only serves as an indicator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ukcider.co.uk/ciderbyrosie/re-ukcider-re-blending-keeved-cider-2/</link>
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