Sneinton Cider Company

Enjoying the morning sun, being lightly hungover and scoping out apples while having a coffee and a fry up.

Reckon this year is going to be an interesting harvest, chums.

So how is getting up early and blocking a whole Saturday morning specifically to clean tanks in the fermentation shed and tidy the cidery going?

Well, yeah, I mean don't get me wrong those things are definitely on the list but then the pots needed doing and there was some tidying to do and then I noticed that there were a lot of flowers that needed dead heading and then I faded out of thought and time so long story short I haven't started yet...

The Nottingham CAMRA Cider Saunter is Nigh!

And what a haul we have for you!

Going out into the world is the largest volume of Sneinton Cider ever assembled and the widest range of ciders we have ever released at one time.

Coming up, we have:

Midsommar Slurper 6.4%
Medium Single Variety Somerset Redstreak: Full bodied and 'apple forward' with a nice balance. True farmhouse style.

Incy Lindsay Pider 5.8%
Apple and Pear mixed, light and crisp with some sweetness. Made from pears and apples picked in a restored former green grocer's garden orchard and donated by our chum Lindsay Miller

Full Apple Jacket 6.1%
Westco style cider with some caramel flavours, very moreish, made from only true cider apple varieties picked at Summerwood Community Garden and a couple of other orchards around Nottingham.

Midday Pint 7.1%
Our much anticipated collab (no, not that one) with Langar Cider: clearer than you're used to from us and with a crisp dry 'white wine' feel.

With over 30 pubs taking part in the Saunter, this August Nottingham is going to have the very best from the East Midlands Real Cider & Perry Producers ready for your suppin' needs.

If you see Conor Lynam doing the rounds, be sure to give him your crispest high five.

And, as always, we'll see you at the bar!

Great to see you all at The Kilpin Beer Cafe last night and thanks to Julio and the team for being such excellent hosts.

We talked a lot about cider and had a fair few too.

Now, on to the Big BiB weekend. Theres a good 500l to package ready for the Nottingham CAMRA Cider Saunter which starts on Friday.

Pray for Mojo.

Event tomorrow, Thursday 23rd: Estewic Cider launch at the Kilpin. 17:00ish

So this summer we guess its pictures of cider and flowers? We also guessed that we had this theme locked down but here comes the The Kilpin Beer Cafe with this amazing image.

Time to up our game.

But first: its the launch of the latest East Midlands Real Cider & Perry Producers Estewic Cider at the Kilpin tomorrow and we reckon you should be there. A new joint venture between some of us and Langar Cider (surprise, surprise) Estewic has been two years in the making and is finally ready to go.

If you like vintage style real cider made from nothing but 100% pressed apple juice then this isn't one to miss.

There's three BiBs of this in the world so if you fancy a pint of it, you know where to be.

Also go and give it a like on socials; particularly the 'Gram. It would be greatly appreciated.

Check out the colour on this!

We were recently gifted one of the first ever bottles of Seatoller Cider from Gamston Press and its an absolute corker!

Made primarily from cider apples grown and donated from an allotment and fermented in super small batches, this was a welcome gift indeed.

What do you reckon? Cheeky little collab this season?

If this post gets 1 like, we'll make it happen.

"I see a bare floor and I want to paint it Grey"

No, delete that, its rubbish; I'll think of something better later.

We have a floor! Should we be this excited to have a floor? Probably not... but floor!

Another milestone down, another step closer to having the cidery ready to go.

Now we just need to get grey paint off of everything...

We had our annual very sensible and serious planning meeting at the weekend which involved lots of note taking, lots of discussion around process improvement, lots of being excited about new equipment and, of course, a cheeky pint or two.

While our cidery is being built, we took Grandlad with us to see what a proper cider making set up looks like.

It doesn't hurt that they also make one of the best breakfasts we've ever had...

'Hey, so the money you earned from Castle Beer Festival and Nottingham Craft Beer Festival, you're going to be responsible with it; right?'

Uh, yeah?

Cheers Vigo Limited!

Now, where to put it...