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Greetings to all in the new year 2025.
We hope that you have enjoyed the Christmas holiday and managed to rest also a bit during the January. After many years, we have managed during January to take it bit more easy, alas, it was partly because of the disease but still. From the events of interest we should mention the cider trip to Normandie and SIVAL. Together with Cider Bohemia, Cider Talk, Selský sad and with cider maker&artistic carver Vlastimile Hanuš we have first visited our cidrerie in Normandie. We have profited from the lovely landscapes around, took grafts from the orchards which I rent, especially the bitter and bitter-sweet varieties. We have continued with stocking during our visit of Maison Hérout, cidrerie where I've done my internship during my studies to become certified cider maker at the institute le Robillard. Our final stop was participation of our delegation at SIVAL which is one of the biggest agricultural expositions in France. No surprise, we were after everything related to cider. The main topic of the traditional theoretical presentations was focused on usage specific strains of yeast in the cider fermentation both during primary and secondary fermentation in bottles. Our French colleges were not idle. Later we went on the "walk" where we were searching around the areal for equipment used in cider production, which was quite a task. We have checked varieties of filters from tangential flow filters (tff), kieselguhr filters and sheet filters. There were many fermentation vessels from the ones from stainless steel, to concrete and ceramic. Many different shapes and naturally technological improvements like external cooling systems and variety of sensory systems. I have been also after corkers which would be able to do champagne corks which are broader then our currently used d = 27 mm and last longer. The corks with the diameter over 29 mm are more expensive and importantly to be applied they need machines like ELVAmac Rapid 56.
Také mě zajímali skládací ocelové klece (mesh steel stillages) na skladování lahví. Zastavili jsme se také u stánku IFPC, kteří nám před tím přednášeli a promluvili si o novinkách v oboru. Raději nebudu zabíhat do zemědělské techniky pro údržbu sadů, to by jsme tady byli ještě dlouho. Kolegy hodně zaujali sekačky s různými satelitními nástavci pro "obsekávání" stromů v sadech.
Jak jste již někteří zanamenali, po uklidněnějším lednu jsme 1/2 otevřeli sezónu na farmřázkých trzích na pražské Náplavce. Budeme tam teď v únoru každý víkend. V březnu by jsme Vás chtěli pozvat na Mezinárodní pivní festival v Litoměřicích, kde budeme representovat naše cidry.
To by bylo asi pro otevření sezóny 2025 od nás vše. Máte-li v okolí nějakou zajímavou akci, která si myslíte, že by pro nás byla vhodná, dejte nám prosím vědět, děkujeme! Když se dá dohromady dostatek lidí, alespoň přes deset, tak také rádi zajedeme udělat ochutnávku cidrů.
Přejeme Vám krásné dny,
z Kouta na Šumavě pro Kvasírnu Jara,
František Apfelbeck
