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Cider Blogs

I do wonder why we are not seeing very many cider blogs at all yet. To me it seems the arguments for any small business or serious hobbyist publishing a blog are compelling. At least somebody at Westons or Thatchers might be blogging by now? What better way to share the ups and downs of cider making, orchard management, pictures and illustration and anything else the cidermaker wants to write about.

Here are some good reasons to start a cidermaking blog:

EASY It's almost as easy as writing an email and snding it to ukcider
CHEAP/FREE You can get a free blog for yourself at one of many providers such as blogger.com or wordpress,org and not have to worry about hosting charges or increasing bandwidth
CONVERSATION Because blogs allow for comments, you can make contacts, friends and learn from pointers that your audience sends in.
INSIGHT into the market through engagement with potential customers
GOOGLE loves blogs, building your visibility and traffic

And to dispel some myths:

Technology

Blogging at it's simplest doesn't require any technical knowhow. It's as easy as posting a webmail or bulletin board. You could even compose your entry first in a Word processor and then paste it in if you like.

Keeping it up

You don't have to write something every day as some people believe ( perhaps after having started diaries as teenagers and then shortly abandoned them? ) Once a week or month would still have a big impact compared to a static "homepage" type site which nobody can interact with.

The rest of this page is for rendering RSS feeds from those cider blogs which do exist.

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Cider By Rosie

Cider by Rosie

Reality dawns!: 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 [...]
My website: 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 [...]
A question of yeast: 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 ‘wild’ 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 [...]
Steam Cleaning Oak barrels: > > BucklandSwifty wrote: >> I have two 40 gallon oak ex whiskey barrels, one of which was used to >> mature last years cider in. I am pondering the best way of cleaning >> it. There is only the usual bung hole in the top, I had thought of >> half to two thirds filling with [...]
High excitement and a bit of bother: Towards the end of last November I spent a sunny day on my knees in Venetia’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 [...]
Cider Festivals: 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 ‘cider only festivals’. Since Powerstock I’ve [...]
[ukcider] Powerstock Cider Festival: Our annual ‘not to be missed’ 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 [...]
The big tank: Last year I decided to take my two ex winery aluminium ‘Sputnik’ 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 [...]
Europump repairs.: 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 [...]
Re: [ukcider] Re: Blending keeved cider: I’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 [...]

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The Stable, Dorset: The Stable was opened in October 2009 in the old stables of The Bull Hotel, a 17th century coaching inn. The Stable, Dorset c/o The Bull Hotel 34 East Street Bridport Dorset DT6 3LF T: 01308 422878 F: 01308 426872 Predominantly a cider house, nearly 50 types of ciders and perry are stocked [...]
The Origins of Devon Cider Brandy: A guest post by Julian Temperley from the Somerset Cider Brandy Company www.ciderbrandy.co.uk: “I read with interest how Devon Cider Brandy is produced in Devon and how they have permission to distill, either the second or third license in the UK . All sounds brilliant especially the bit about the importance of provenance. The [...]
Happy New Year from UKCider: Happy New Year for 2010 from the UKCider blog. Lots more challenges in the coming year, bring it on! Possibly Related Cider Posts:Devon Cider Brandyapple tree pruning – tipping backCider is Apple Wineciderstore’s birthday offerWelcome to blogging Stephen Hayes
Sharps Orchard Cider ? Abbey Ales Hells Bells: Acclaimed Cornish brewery Sharp’s of Rock near Padstow has teamed up with Cornish Orchards to produce a cider for the UK market. Orchard Cider is made from 100% local cider apples and is being trialled in selected outlets in Cornwall and Devon. Joe Keohane, of Sharp’s, said: “Our introduction to Cornish Orchards was the Eden Project. We [...]
Drinks Labels Move to List Ingredients: At UKCider we believe cider and all alcoholic drinks should be bound by the same ingredients listing laws as any other foodstuffs. This would help to educate the public about what goes into making pure natural cider compared with the adulterated output from many well known brands. According to the industrial cider makers organisations, it’s [...]
Heron Valley Cider Tasting: Heron Valley Cider We ordered one bottle of Heron Valley Cider to try and it arrived today so we made a tasting video to share our reaction on opening the bottle and trying some of the cider. Heron Valley Devon cider is claimed to be “Authentic Devon Cider” None of this ?serve over [...]
Top Five Places for Cider: A California-based travel Website called VirtualTourist.com chose Spain’s Asturias region to top its list of the world’s “Top Five Places for Cider. Cider makers in Asturias embrace showmanship in its pouring rituals, allowing the public to watch as the cider and its destined glass are kept two to three feet apart during pouring to aerate the [...]
Cider workshop ? speaker needed, Manchester: Cider Workshop Agnes from Abundance is holding a Cider Workshop on Monday 26th October in Manchester and is looking for someone from this group to do a short talk about making cider. Abundance is a group which works to harvest and redistribute surplus apples and other fruit and veg in the city of Manchester, similar to other [...]
Devon Cider Brandy: Cider Brandy An award-winning Devon cider maker has started making a new cider brandy. After five years of patient waiting for the potent drink to mature in barrels, Yarde Real Drink has now come out with its own brandy. Yarde Real Devon Cider Brandy Yarde Real Devon Cider Brandy is understood to be the first apple cider brandy [...]
Use Your Local Pub to receive Parcels: This seems like an idea that could be expanded with a little imagination, and turn some of our struggling local pubs into thriving centres of service for local communities. Pint and parcels at the local pub The UK’s Royal Mail makes some 40 million unsuccessful first-time delivery attempts per year, causing no end of hassle for the [...]