Oddbean

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 Cider making this time, a couple of years ago:

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 Planning to make cider as well. Just we do not have this tradition over here. We are making palinka... from everything. 😂😂🤣

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 I had to Google palinka. Looks interesting.

Spirit made from Cider is called Calvados, I would love to make that, but it is illegal to run a still in the UK 😂

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 We have stills as a service (saas 😁) with limited amounts per person. Better than nothing.

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 That sounds like a great service 💜

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 I’d be interesting in learning which ciders these end up being! Very interested in small cider makers, they are often the best. Our nearest is “Tutts Clump” for example which is made near Yattendon, West Berkshire

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 This was from a few years ago, we are about to start this years production soon.

We have a mix of eaters and cookers in our village so it's very much a mongrel brew.

When we first started making it we used around 2/3 cookers to 1/3 eaters because that's the ratio of our trees, but we've since adapted it to 2/3 eaters to 1/3 cookers, which is a much more palatable drink.

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 I would love to travel over to take part in the process, as I don’t know of anything like that locally. The cider makers here are very much their own team.

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 You should start your own team and exclude them 😂

We generally accept anyone from the village, but it is very definitely a village activity, you also have to bring your own apples 😂

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 Yum!