Learn & Discover
Learn & Discover
How Cider is Made Pt.1 – Video
To make great ciders it requires time, skill, effort, knowledge of the varieties and the process. But there is no single way to make cider, that is why Gabe Cook – in this two part series – will be following the cider making process from the lens of two different cider makers.
In this first part Gabe will be looking at a modern, more contemporary way of making real cider at Newton Court Cider in North Herefordshire and the more traditional way at Wilkins Cider of Somerset. The first video will guide you through the journey from harvest to fermentation.
Gabe Cook
With 10+ years of experience working in the cider industry, Gabe is leading the charge for a cider revolution. AKA ‘the Ciderologist‘ Gabe is an international consultant, writer, broadcaster, and educator on all matters cider. Resident cider expert for C4’s Sunday Brunch.
Cider blending & maturation: Pt. 1
A CAMRA Learn & Discover video guide
In this 2 part series on cider blending and maturation, Bill Bradshaw guides us through a series of conversations with some of the foremost blenders at the zenith of the cider-makers craft. The kind of ciders that find us at the bottom of an empty glass, savouring the moment and dreaming of what led us there. This series features Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider, founders of Little Pomona cider, James and Susanna Forbes, founders of Find and Foster fine ciders, Mat and Polly Hilton and retired biochemist, cider maker and veteran of Long Ashton Research Station (the National Fruit and Cider Institute), Andrew Lea. (This video features robust language in praise of cider).
‘The remaining pomace [produced by the belt press] will then be taken for animal feed or for cider makers of a larger scale it goes into an anaerobic digester to produce green electricity’
— Gabe Cook
