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Further to my post on Taunton Cider mugs please follow this link to a new Cider Musing on TeePee Cider website to see all the mugs. They are an amazing collection. Check out which one has the trick frog! #cider #pottery #wade #Taunton

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"Acker" Bilk was an English clarinetist. His instrumental tune "Stranger on the Shore" became the UK's biggest selling single of 1962. He was born in Pensford Somerset. In 1954 Bilk married his childhood sweetheart, Jean Hawkins, whom he met in the same class at school. He earned the nickname "Acker" from the Somerset slang for "friend" or "mate". After living near London for many years, the couple retired back to Pensford. And he loved cider. #cider #AckerBilk #books

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I'm pleased to be attending CiderCon 2025 for the first time. Why not join me in Chicago USA from February 4-7 for the world’s largest gathering of cider lovers, professionals, vendors, growers and innovators. There will be dozens of workshops and cider tastings plus the world's largest ( only in America 😉) Cider Share to kick the conference off. If you want to join me at @Ciderconference you can register on ACA's website:  https://lnkd.in/gKEBikZi

#CiderCon2025  #pickcider #CiderCon

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Cider bottles laid down for 2 years cool secondary fermentation. Held in cages in case of earthquakes, Wairarapa is on a fault line the quake of 1855 was one of the largest in NZ) . The cider cave is a refrigerated 40 foot container held at 13C. Here the fermentation of a calculated quantity of sugar and EC1118 yeast produces the perfect fizz and flavour. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1855_Wairarapa_earthquake #MethodTraditional #cider #earthquake

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The Kingston Black apple fruitlets are now well formed this Spring. Hoping for good weather through summer to make our favourite cider this Autumn coming. Heralding from Somerset England, Kingston Black ( on M793) is a vigorous grower and good cropper for us in Wairarapa Aotearoa/NZ #cider #orchard #apples

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Tiny perry pears. A wilding but good tannins. Even at harvest they are still tiny and spherical. I call this one Carterton as the original tree is still growing in the area and looks over a hundred years old and neglected. I grafted it on a few years ago. A few more years and I will be able to make a SV perry from it! Maybe tilting at windmills at my age!😉 #perry #pears #pearcider #orchard

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Hygrometer. An important instrument to measure sugar to avoid disaster. A SG of 1.010 can mean 26grams residual sugar. 4grams/L fermented gives 1 atmosphere in a sealed bottle. #cider #MethodTraditional #cidery #hygrometer #sugar

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Very happy with the SV Yarlington Mill 2024 . This is the first year we have been able to make a whole barrel. Great colour and lovely soft tannins. Just bottled for secondary fermentation. Release 2026 #cider #YarlingtonMill #SingleVariety #MethodTraditional

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More bottling. Quite hypnotic watching the bottles fill. We have a simple gravity feed 4 head system. Works well for our scale of production. #cider #cidery #apples #pears #perry

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Medlar updates. One petal left. The medlars are now all set. Looks like it will be a good crop. The four newly grafted medlars are all making good growth. And finally the barrel co-fermented cider with medlars from the harvest last autumn is tasting great. Now bottled for secondary fermentation. #medlar #cider #blossom

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Birds of Beau Vista orchard - the Paradise Duck. They nest high in the massive Old Man Pine. This fledgling must have fallen out. Now wandering around till its parents return. #ParadiseDuck #BeauVistaOrchard #ornithology #cider #duckling

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Busy day at the cidery, bottling the French oaked cider and the medlar cofermented cider for their second in-bottle fermentation. Special releases for 2026. Tasting petty good now. #cider #medlar #oak #SecondaryFermentation #MethodTraditonal #FWCMA

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Francie, I and Trinny, the cider dog, are pleased to announce that TeePee Cider had a great time at the NZ Cider Festival last weekend and won a bronze for our late disgourged 2017 cider and a silver and best in class award for our 2020 method traditional perry in the NZ 2024 Cider Awards. Limited supplies left to buy, check out the website www.teepeecider.co.nz #cider #perry #medal #award #FWCMA #NZCiderFestival

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The Welcome Swallow, or Warou in Te Reo, are back nesting in the woodshed at TeePee Cider. Such beautiful birds in flight and perching. Wonderful nest building too. #TeReoMāori #warou #Swallow

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If you were coming to TeePee Cider and Beau Vista Orchard many decades ago this is Carterton Station where you would alight. Unchanged today. 😊 #wairarapa #Wairarapaline #train #trainstation #Orchard #Apples #cider

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It was unseasonably cold last night at the orchard, late Spring. 3C , no frost though. Fire on inside. 🔥 Glorious sunny day today. The trees won’t know what’s happening! Last snow on the Tararua ranges behind us. #Spring #snow #orchard #apples #pears #TararuaRanges

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Birds of Beau Vista Orchard - the Dunnock. We have them nesting in boxes at present. They are small brown birds that were introduced from England into multiple regions of New Zealand around 1865 by Acclimatisation Societies. It was thought by the settlers that dunnocks could be used to control the numbers of insect pests in orchards being insectivorous birds . They are found throughout the country from sea level to subalpine scrub, in orchards, farms, suburban gardens, scrub and forest.#ornithology #birds #orchard #dunnock #apples #NewZealand