Reply to: The joy of Apples

[PAH]

Where's Cojak when you need them, she's made some apple wine.

She can also make pips squeek if one steps over the decency threshold. {eyeswateringsmilie}

[doodab]

If your pears aren't perry pears you can't make real perry!

I quite like pear cider (i.e. made from non-perry pears) but this is a topic me and a mate have 'discussed' after several pints of the stuff. He goes on about pear cider not being cider it's perry, then I go on about perry being only one type of pear cider. We have such interesting discussions when on the sauce.

Not sure that's true. Cider made from regular apples is still cider, and perry made from reguar pears is still perry. "Pear cider" is just a marketing term cooked up because people didn't know what perry was.

Can you still get Babycham?

[PAH]

Only tramps drink real cider around our way (Somerset), I’m not sure if they started out as tramps or the zider sent them on their merry way?

From what I've seen, real cider is typically 6%+, so no suprise it sends people into alcohol induced alfresco living. Still they must be getting plenty of their '5 a day'.

[PAH]

Anyone know how to make perry????

If your pears aren't perry pears you can't make real perry!

I quite like pear cider (i.e. made from non-perry pears) but this is a topic me and a mate have 'discussed' after several pints of the stuff. He goes on about pear cider not being cider it's perry, then I go on about perry being only one type of pear cider. We have such interesting discussions when on the sauce.

[norrahe]

I have 3 pear trees and they do give a lot of fruit each year.

Problem is I have no idea what to do with it.

Anyone know how to make perry????

A free pint to anyone with some decent responses!

Where's Cojak when you need them, she's made some apple wine.

[amcdonald]

There must be a good way of scaring the birds off.

You could change your name to Wilmslow or Gricer

[original PM]

I have 3 pear trees and they do give a lot of fruit each year.

Problem is I have no idea what to do with it.

Anyone know how to make perry????

A free pint to anyone with some decent responses!

[Sysman]

I'm working on horseradish vodka (great in Bloody marys), when the hoseradish is ready

I like the sound of that! It should give a nice hot kick to Bloody Marys.

[Sysman]

A bit of cox worship. Nothing to do with iPhones.

BBC News - British to the core

Does anyone have an orchard?

I'm sure I saw a BBC documentary about apples in yesterday's TV listings. Completely forgot to record it though.

Parents had an orchard which had cooking apples, but they were piddly small things so a pain to peel. In hindsight some pruning could have helped with that.

[gingerjedi]

As cider is my preferred summer drink I've often thought about growing apples to have a go at making my own cider.

More so after realising that much of the commercial stuff is chemicaly castrated and you need to try real cider for real cider.

Only tramps drink real cider around our way (Somerset), I’m not sure if they started out as tramps or the zider sent them on their merry way?

Thatcher’s and Ashton Press are the preferred drinks of the people who drink indoors, Magners and Bulmers etc are known as chicks drinks.

[doodab]

There must be a good way of scaring the birds off.

[xoggoth]

Got a cherry tree. Ruddy birds scoff the lot before they are ripe.

[norrahe]

Damson vodka works well, if you can keep the birds away.

I'm working on horseradish vodka (great in Bloody marys), when the hoseradish is ready

[PAH]

As cider is my preferred summer drink I've often thought about growing apples to have a go at making my own cider.

More so after realising that much of the commercial stuff is chemicaly castrated and you need to try real cider for real cider.

A neighbour has an apple tree and it looks easy enough to maintain. Biggest problem he has is keeping the local kids away. Once 'caught' a group pilfering the tree and when they spotted me they asked if I wanted one. I just laughed and walked past, recalling the days when I used to do the same as a lad, though I think they were crab apples. The really sour ones.

[Old Greg]

Am allergic to gin and the birds seem to destroy the fruits most years.

Damson vodka works well, if you can keep the birds away.