NEW cider! 🍎Kingston Black 2023🍎 Naturally sparkling, wild-fermented dry cider from Dorset. We hand-harvested the Kingston Black apples in the autumn of 2023. Delicious! Available from our webshop in a case of 6, or select as part of a mixed 750ml case. www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

I've decided I'm having cider for dinner.

A huge Hendre Huffcap perry pear. Some are quite tiny, and then you get monsters like this one. Picking them up would be much easier if they were all monsters! 😅

Trade announcement... NEW single-varietal keg-conditioned Brandy Pear Perry 2023, available now. 5.2%. Naturally sparkling, wild-fermented, live perry in a keg!

Ample apples!

A plethora of pears!

What a lot of Camelot!

Paul has done lots of picking-up of apples and pears in the rain this week. These are Morgan Sweet. From the tree to the truck!

Bloody Ploughman is a stunning-looking apple. This is one of the trees we planted around the farm buildings not long after we moved to Temple Farm. Looking back to when we planted those trees, we had no clue that 10 years later we'd be 'Temple Cider'.

Ciders from @rosscider.bsky.social @templecider.bsky.social Oliver's Fine Cider, Kerisac, and Superstition along with a Mistel from Somerset at tonight's @chesterciderclub.bsky.social in @thatbeerplace.co.uk along with a few from one of our members who makes their own. Top night, great people!

Photos from our pear harvesting yesterday.

Harvest 2025 has begun! We started with Hellen's Early, but then realised the Thorn perry pears were slightly riper so moved on to harvesting Thorn instead. First two photos are the Thorn, and in the final photo Hellen's Early are in the foreground. Many more hauls like this to come!

We've just sold out of BiB perry, so no more available until the pears we'll be starting to pick this week have been transformed into this magical drink. Hope you're feeling patient! 🙃 We do still have perry in kegs, cans and bottles, of course, for those who can't wait. 😌

🍐🍐NEW PERRY 🍐🍐 Hendre Huffcap & Blakeney Red Perry 2023 has been unleashed and it's deliciously light and refreshing. 🥂 Available here: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... Or select it as part of a mixed case of 750s: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

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We'll be at the gorgeous Symondsbury Estate, Bridport, on Thursday 28th August, taking part in their Summer Tasting Tables event. Come along to the Deli and sample our naturally sparkling ciders, including the ICC gold award-winning Yarlington Mill Keeved. 🥂 www.templecider.co.uk/summer-tasti...

Was lucky enough to be on the judging panel for this cider and it blew me away! An absolutely perfect Yarlington Mill S.V. - the character of the variety captured at perfect ripeness and fully expressed.

We are delighted to announce that our Yarlington Mill Keeved 2022 has won a gold medal in the International Cider Challenge. 🎆 Thank you so much to the expert judges for rating this cider as highly as we do. 🥂 Available now from our webshop! #ICC2025

How to break the news to him that his Kingston Black 'ball' really has got to go to apple heaven now.

Tell me you're a cider dog without telling me you're a cider dog. 🐶🍏

It's GBBF Trade Day and you'll find Paul in the Discovery Zone! Our theme is live, naturally sparkling ciders, available in keg, bottle and can. Go discover real cider! greatbritishbeerfestival.co.uk/discover/dis...

After the bright lights of Bristol Cider Salon yesterday, a dull morning in the orchard today. 2025 is shaping up to be a bumper harvest!

Only a week to go! We're at Great British Beer Festival Discovery Bar on Tuesday 5th August, with 6 of our live, naturally sparkling ciders - fermented in keg/bottle/can. It's Trade Day and we want to help get draught real ciders with natural sparkle into pubs! www.templecider.co.uk/great-britis...

NEW! 🍐 Naturally sparkling Perry in a can! Made using the Charmat method, a fresh and vibrant dry perry. Live, unpasteurised, unfiltered, full-juice, wild-fermented perry. Artisan made on our West Dorset farm with pears from our unsprayed orchard. www.templecider.co.uk/naturally-sp...

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Yarlington Mill 2024, draught Bag-in-Box, has now been released! 10L on our webshop: templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... 10L on Eebria Trade: eebriatrade.com/products/cid... 20L on Eebria Trade: www.eebriatrade.com/products/cid...

Things can only get better.

Today's activities.

NEW! KEG-CONDITIONED PERRY! Live, full-juice perry from handpicked Blakeney Red pears. Nothing added. Juicy acidity and a soft tannic finish. 5.2% abv Fermentation completed inside the keg to give a natural, gentle sparkle. 30L kegs available on Eebria now: www.eebriatrade.com/products/cid...

Perry is an absolutely wonderful drink. Thorn 2022 from @rosscider.bsky.social and Gollop Orchard from @templecider.bsky.social are wildly different but both fantastic. @littlepomona.bsky.social and Gregg's Pit make perries that blow my mind.

🍎 CIDER UPDATE 🍎 Bollhayes Medium on the handpump, Temple Hendre Huffcap Perry and Hallets Oak Aged Whiskey Cask in the cellar... All proper full juice ciders joining our award winning line up of traditional still ciders and our keg fermented naturally sparkling cider. @templecider.bsky.social

We could be accused of being slightly too literal with our pump clip colour choices. 🤣😂🙃

Perfect weather for cracking open a can of naturally sparkling, full-juice cider, straight from the fridge. Order a mixed case from our website now! www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

Kingston Black and Yarlington Mill apples - photos taken yesterday. This is a mature orchard that we have picked fruit from since 2019. Its trees have provided apples for some of our favourite ciders.

If today isn't a 'can of live Somerset Redstreak in the sunshine' kind of day, then when is? Also, we earned it: we made it! 🥂

Small apples and blue skies in Lulu's Orchard here on Temple Farm. The beautiful dark-red apples are Pendragon. 🍎 The green ones are Harrison. 🍏

This is how I start my day. Feeding 80 street dogs here in Thailand. We now do so much more but I’ll never stop doing this part. The best feeling in the world. They all know the sound of the bike coming 🛵 🥰

Our Gollop Orchard Perry 2022 has a lovely pinkish hue. Seen here on the hi-tech labelling machine that's part of the fully automated Temple Cider production line.😉 🤣

"Not farre offe," [from Lambert's Castle] "but on the farthest Angle of this Shire, stands Pilles-den, well knowen by reason of a verie high Hill ariseing there with a Lodge on the toppe, which serveth for a Marke by sea and Lande" -Coker's survey of #Dorset shire #Hillfortswednesday

This keeved Yarlington Mill 2022 from @templecider.bsky.social is just screaming out to be downed by the pint on a sunny afternoon #cider

From this... we make this. Tiny Porter's Perfection apples, captured in the beautiful sunshine in Lulu's orchard this morning. And Porter's Perfection 2022 cider, from apples that looked like that exactly three years ago, resplendent in its bottle.

🍎 Think cider’s all sweet fizz & fake fruit? Think again. At TBP this week we’re going to be busting myths & pouring the real stuff, crafted with wild yeasts, heritage apples & A WHOLE LOT OF SOUL! Drop in. Get curious. Taste the truth.

🍐NEW DRAUGHT PERRY: Hendre Huffcap 2024🍐 Hendre Huffcap pears (the clue's in the name) picked from our Dorset orchard in 2024 (the clue's in the name) Still, dry perry 5.7%. Bag-in-Box Trade: eebriatrade.com/products/cid... or email for price list Not trade?: templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

🍐NEW DRAUGHT PERRY: Hendre Huffcap 2024🍐 Hendre Huffcap pears (the clue's in the name) picked from our Dorset orchard in 2024 (the clue's in the name) Still, dry perry 5.7%. Bag-in-Box Trade: eebriatrade.com/products/cid... or email for price list Not trade?: templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

We're in today's Western Morning News! 😊 A great article by Martin Hesp, and very complimentary about our cider. Huge thanks to Martin, and also James Crowden, for coming along to our cider shed. Also included are the renovation of The Bottle Inn in Marshwood, and Tim Beer restoring road signs.

Two new BIB at the shop CIDER & PERRY from @CiderTemple via @therealalco CIDER pouring on now, help us make space for the PERRY. Cheers!

Another view of Lulu's Orchard. We love seeing our orchards grow up around us.

Lulu's Orchard here on Temple Farm is looking absolutely beautiful today, and it's alive with birds and butterflies. The huge, aged crab apple tree in the far hedgerow looks stunning in blossom. Pilsdon Pen is in the background. We love living here.

Top tanks! The scene in our compact cider shed on Temple Farm today. The nearest raised tank contains Somerset Redstreak 2023. Its smaller neighbouring tank contains an orchard mixture, also from 2023.

Our live, keeved cider in a keg has been unleashed! Natural sparkle and natural sweetness aplenty in Gidea Park!