Members Main Juicing plus Cider Packaging and Making - 01/11/2025

Juicing and Cider Making 2025 - Annual event for club members to use the club equipment to press apples for either their own cider making endeavours - or contribute towards the community cider. Or just to take juice away! (Members only: non-members, please join before booking).

It's that time of the year again when we get together to press apples in order to create England's most northerly juice and cider!

The Cider Club equipment is available to all members, free of charge, every year to process their apples. so they can practice the ancient art of cider making.

You have the option of either taking your juice away to enjoy as it is or making your own cider - or alternatively contributing to the community cider vat's for members to enjoy when it's all packaged next year. This latter option is a very popular due to the communal and social aspect of the pressing & packaging (and assessing!). For those participating in the community cider, there is a one-off joining fee (£5) and then £5 for each 10L you take to cover packaging and other costs (re-using bags and boxes reduces this).

This year's event is to take place on Saturday 1st November at 11:00 (morning session) and 13:00 (afternoon session). Packaging of last years cider will take place before the main juicing starts. Note the event is taking place on a Saturday rather than the usual Sunday this year.

We'll be pressing at Mike & Carmen Taylor's place again this year. The location is high in the hills above Wigton. The address is Thornthwaite Hall, CA7 8NG.

The venue will be signposted on the day.

To attend you'll need to make a booking for the day (via "My NCOG") - so if you could please do that - it'll let us know who's coming and when. It really helps with avoiding everyone turning up at the same time and having to queue.

If you can't make the date then watch out for further announcements for alternative juicing days. There's one planned at Glassonby - and Mark may run a late season one at his place in December. But please note this event will be the only one where you'll be able to contribute to the community cider vat.

Hope to see you there - even if you've only a small amount of apples to press.

Session detail
Session	Start	End	Available
Juicing and Cider Making 01/11/2025 - 11AM	01/11/25 11:00 am	01/11/25 1:00 pm	Yes
This is the main apple pressing event for NCOG Members. You're free to either take the juice away from your own apples - or add it to the community 2025 cider vat. If juicing, please, please, please bring enough containers to take away your apple juice. It's better to have too many containers than too few! Just a reminder that if bringing apples it's best to have a bit of a sort through to make sure they're fairly clean and there's no rotten ones. If we could also avoid too many cooking apples for the community cider. They don't make great cider! There's limited facilities on-site so best to bring your own snacks for when we break for refreshment. Sharing of cakes/biscuits etc. is always a feature of our events and tea/coffee will be available Also, if you can't decide whether to come to the AM/PM session - we are always glad to see people at the PM session as it makes the cleaning process a lot quicker afterwards.
Juicing and Cider Making 01/11/2025 - 1PM	01/11/25 1:00 pm	01/11/25 4:00 pm	Yes
This is the main apple pressing event for NCOG Members. You're free to either take the juice away from your own apples - or add it to the community 2025 cider vat. If juicing, please, please, please bring enough containers to take away your apple juice. It's better to have too many containers than too few! Just a reminder that if bringing apples it's best to have a bit of a sort through to make sure they're fairly clean and there's no rotten ones. If we could also avoid too many cooking apples for the community cider. They don't make great cider! There's limited facilities on-site so best to bring your own snacks for when we break for refreshment. Sharing of cakes/biscuits etc. is always a feature of our events and tea/coffee will be available Also, if you can't decide whether to come to the AM/PM session - we are always glad to see people at the PM session as it makes the cleaning process a lot quicker afterwards.
Cider Packaging 2025	01/11/25 9:00 am	01/11/25 11:00 am	Yes
This session is for those Members who contributed apples to the cider vat/s during the main 2024 pressing event. It will take place before the main pressings later in the day in order to free up the vats for the 2025 vintage