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yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 15 9:47 pm Post subject: Flogging the Morgans

I gave a couple of nice chaps a tour of the orchards this evening. They have a small cider-making business locally and make an early brew for sale next year. They're very eager to get their hands on my Morgan Sweets and are willing to pick them from our three huge and quite fragile hundred-year-old trees.

Now the last time we sold Morgans was in 1966 when they went to Showerings for Babycham, so I have no idea of how much to ask. Or whether to just barter for help in pruning and renovating some of the very large trees that I'm afraid to tackle single handed. Any ideas, Bodger, Lorraine, anyone?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46188
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 15 11:42 pm Post subject:
half the crop as product?

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 15 8:59 am Post subject:
Was it the chaps from Ham Hill? They brought samples out to the brewery last year.

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 15 8:32 pm Post subject:

Yes, they said they'd been to Dillington too. They were doing a great trade at the Mid-Somerset Show, where I introduced myself. They've pretty much sold out for this year.

Ridiculous I know, dpack, growing up in the heart of Ciderland, but I don't like cider much . . or perhaps I should say didn't in the past, I think what is being brewed now bears little resemblance to the rat's lidos of the 1960s. A couple of bottles of Morgan Sweet Cider might be worth tasting but I'd sooner have cash to buy some good wine or firewood for the hearth I'll drink it by.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15947

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 15 6:55 am Post subject:
I was brought up in a beer brewing village and I don't like beer. Cause and effect there though I think. I like cider, but the old rough cider was a bit offputting even for a cider drinker like me.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 15 7:36 am Post subject:
Commercially we buy in at £50 per tonne if we have to pick and collect. I do know people who charge more. A lot of commercial cider makers (not naming names) who buy juice in bulk now from Sheppy's are doing so because of the cost and time involved leaving growers with a dilemma - this is how we have acquired our new sources of apples.

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