Wednesday 24 November 2010

Getting there...

Sunday: prepared for 12 and took stock of remaining apples: sweets: 295 lbs; sharps: 170 & bitters only 71 lbs. So with another 5 batches left to press (6 would be better mind...)
Pressed 12 Monday night... but the central heating went off, so priorities and all that...
Simple plumbing problem - heating sorted (for now...) and tidied up from 12 inc. scrubbing down the press boards. Started on sharps for 13...

Apple stocks only show a surplus on all three with a 60/25/15 (%) mix - ie: sweet, sharp and bitters, so looks like I'll be grubbing about in hedge bottoms again this week for more crabs. Reckon I should be able to muster enough to get that up to 20% though - otherwise these last batches will tend to be a bit bland.

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