News 2025 05 16
Greetings to all, with the beginning of the season of the summer sales and processing of the crops we are having less time, so we need to be bit brief here, happy? However if you have a feeling, that you would like to know more, then you can check our report for 2024.
By the end of April we have bottled with my brother slightly over thousand 75 cl bottles of brut, it will be known as millésime 2024, assemblage 1. We expect, that it will be dryer and more astringent and bitter, not far from assemblage 1, millésime 2019, which is my favourite. First samples should be ready for tasting during the upcoming autumn. The cider in Normandie is still waiting for it's distillation, we are having delay but there is nothing what we can do now. The season of sale is on, we are still missing people who would be willing and capable of selling our products. If you are interested, please contact us. We are now discussing places for educational training, which of course includes tastings. Second stand is nearly finished, so is the second draft system for probiotic beverages and cider. Also the season of processing of crops is starting. First in the line will be as usually elder flower, bit for drying but mostly for syrups. We could also try to make kosmatici. The honey sparkle of this flavour will be done for sure, we promised it already for April but the season was bit late. The help is wanted, we want to organize community processing, partly payed, partly exchange, we will find a way. The regions will be Kout na Šumavě, Czech Budweis and maybe Prague but there the ingredient would be from somewhere else because of possible pollution. The season should start next week and last for three weeks depending on the weather.
You may remember from the last newsletter, that we have been planning to attend Cider Worldu in Frankfurtu. The event went well, we plan to make a small blog post about it but again, we need bit more time. We hope that next year we can participate with other Czech Cider makers as a group, presenting our products and possibly also competing.
Events where we would like to be presenting our project are numerous, we recommend to keep an eye on our section next events. Soon we will be adding again our cider tastings alias "cider flows". If you know an interesting place or community which may be interested, please let us know, thanks!
That would suffice for our May edition, enjoy your time and do something for it!
For Kvasírna Jara,
František Apfelbeck
