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Cider and Advertising through the ages
This the talk I gave to the 4th New Zealand Cider Festival 2019 Firstly why advertise, a fundamental question. The world is global and unless you advertise your company club etc will be lost amongst the rest. Hence the NZ Cider Festival advertises. TeePee Ciders advertise. And to advertise you ...
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Vintage. Its meaning for Cider.
At TeePee Cider we make Vintage Cider. Vintage has two meanings in cider. Firstly cider made with cider apple varieties recognised as making a ...
Read moreOde to Nature
At TeePee Cider we aim to work with rather than against Nature. An orchard is not a natural place, but it can be a place where Man and Nature c...
Read moreBumble bees and apple pollination.
Apples trees are rarely self fertile and apples need pollen to be transferred from the stamen to ovule, to form. Hence apples trees are reli...
Read moreZork caps
It seems like just a few years ago that the only quality wine makers using the screwcap were in New Zealand. Cork ruled supreme. Other clos...
Read moreThe Babycham phenomena
BabyCham, a perry ( pear cider) made by Showerings, initially a brewery company is key to cider drinks on many levels, juice, storage fermentat...
Read moreCider Tax Riots
Cider was a common drink in the West country from the 14th Century and formed part of wages of labourers until outlawed by the Truck Act of 1887. U...
Read moreDevon Colic
Sir George Baker Devon colic was an illness that affected people in the English county of Devon during parts of the 17th and 18th centuries mo...
Read moreScudamore Cider Flute
Two views This flute also called the ‘Chesterfield’ flute, (family descent through the Scudamore-Stanhope family to the Earls of Chesterfield),...
Read moreThomas Knight & the Pomona Herefordiensis
The first illustrated pomology book in Britain and the world was written in 1811 by Thomas Knight, orchardist and fruit breeder. Pomona Herefordien...
Read moreTalk given to the 3rd NZ Cider Festival 2018
It was great to be invited to talk at the 3rd NZ Cider festival on the history of cider in its “Golden Era” in England. This was a fascinating time...
Read moreJohn Worlidge 1640–1700
John Worlidge or John Woolridge was an agriculturalist, who lived in Petersfield, Hampshire, England. He was considered a great expert on rural aff...
Read moreCider a Poem in two Books: John Philips
“with notes provincial, historical and classical” by Charles Dunster 1791 An extraordinary book. Cider, A Poem written in 1708 in the form of Virgi...
Read moreThe Rise and Fall of Bulmer’s Cider
The start of industrial rather than rural farm based cider production. Rev Charles Henry Bulmer the rector at Credenhill few miles north of Here...
Read moreThe story of Scurvy, and the role of Cider
When cider was being developed in the UK into a fine product akin to wine on the Continent in the 17C and it came to the attention of the scienti...
Read moreGlass Wine and Cider Bottles
Glass manufacturing was a closed occupation in Medieval Europe concentrated in Venice and closely guarded by the guild and Italian authorities of ...
Read moreCork
Cork use to stopper bottles was increasingly used in the 17th C however it was the introduction of the corkscrew, first recorded in 1686 that accel...
Read morePerry
Perry is the half forgotten difficult brother of Cider. Perry is made from pears just as Cider is made from apples. However the drink and the word ...
Read moreThe curious case of the Cider Token
Up to around AD735 silver pennies for a basis of English coinage. These pennies were the smallest denomination, and if smaller change was needed th...
Read more“An Apple a Day keeps the Doctor away”
This seems a rhyme whose origins are lost in antiquity but in fact it is quite modern and well know. It appears in its current form in 1922 . It...
Read moreVintage: What’s in a word?
When it comes to cider quite a lot of confusion it seems Vintage as a word can be a non or an adjective. Both meaning derive from wine making The...
Read moreYeast : Great fermentations.
Cider like wine is an alcoholic fermented drink. Alcohol is produced by yeasts. But it is essentially a by-product. The yeast is extracting energy ...
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