Good afternoon,

Time will tell what the impact the drought will have had on our apple harvest this year, but I suspect the juice yield will be low. We have unripe apples falling off the trees already, and the branches look a little light on the load so far.

I’m hoping the flavours might be more intense, much like anything dehydrated, which could make for some really delicious cider. We shall see.

This year we really want your, your mum’s & your neighbour’s garden apples. We are going to start the swap on 24th September and it will run for four Saturdays.

I know some of your garden trees will already be producing good fruit, but ideally cider making apples are the later ripening varieties and it’s really important that all the fruit it completely ripe otherwise it won’t ferment. Some fruit will fall off the tree and taste pretty good before it is totally ripe, and a good way to tell is to check the pip colour, which should have turned from white to brown.

More information about our swap can be found here.