Collecting Apples, and Getting to know Wales.

News From Wales 

I arrived at Prospect Orchards home of Welsh Mountain Cider http://www.welshmountaincider.com/ last Sunday. The traditional english farm house cider that is made here is dark and tannic with lots of apple aroma. It is still and generally served at cellar temperatures. Between lunch, dinner, and a few glassed whole working I probably average about 2 to 3 pints a day and at 8.5% it keeps me pretty cheerful even in the rain!  

This past week I spend most of my time collecting apples from local orchards, hiking the hills around the orchard and setting my sleep schedule to the English time zone. I have finished 3 apple orchard books and one more cider making book I also have read Kurt Vonnegut's Cats Cradle just for fun! With No internet or TV on the farm I have seemed to turned into a book warm. 

Tomorrow will be out first pressing day (If all goes well!) 

Here are a few pictures from the past week.

 Hiking down into town.

 Atypical evening mist.

 A cool looking tap in a barrel of delicious farm house style cider.

 The apple press we will be using.

A used french oak barrel that held over 100 gallons of cider, before we bottled it all last week. 

Best 

Paul