News 2025 04 11
Greetings to all. this time it's bit longer so here comes short SUMMARY
- we are seeking help with sales and deliveries, bottling of cider, transformation of elder flower to syrups and drying it, plus gardening works, like planting of some aromatic herbs etc. We are organizing trip to Cider World Frankfurt, if you want to participate, let us know. We had a meeting of small producers of cider in Czech and we became members. The 2024 seasonal report will be send within week or ten days.
The spring is finally here, sometimes it a blow or two of cold wind passes by, but you can come by a sunny day or two. It seems like that the flourishing of apple trees may go well but we will have to wait for the final OK for a bit longer. Concerning bottling of the cider the preparations are on, this year it will be done partly in Czech. If you would like to help out let us know. The help is appreciated and there will be some "liquid" rewards. It will be done in the region of Domažlicko. We are estimating, that the elder flower (Sambucus nigra), which is the first harvested ingredient this year, will start to flourish by the end of the April. We are preparing for making syrups, drying it and we would like to dedicate our "monthly probiotic special" to this fragrance. Definitely consider participating, rewards are discussed on individual bases. We have bio sugar for commercial low prices, glass and you can bring home some of your own stock. We have also more than four year aged samples. More general activities include gardening, where we would like to plant larger amount of shiso (Perilla frutescens var crispa), we have seeds to your disposition, enlarge our aromatic garden section, mint, lemon balm etc. and finish our raspberry lines (we would like to have around 25 m in length). If we manage to build up plastic green house is partly up to you but the five tonnes of garden soil brought by wheelbarrow is a reality, you missed a lot ... From the more tech activities, we are preparing for experimenting with kvass, focussing on it's bread version fermented by water kefir culture. We would like to come up with the final recipe by end of May.
Considering markets, fairs, presentations and tastings, we are being invited for a larger amount of interesting events, than we are able to cover with our current team. If you like cider and fermenting in general and you think that you would enjoy help with sale at the market stall or with transportation, let us know. We do not want to hurry up the things too much but the season is starting and after years of hard work we would like to harvest "fruits of our labour". To efficiently accomplish this, we need to collaborate more or less intensively with around ten people or so. Crucial for us is trust, interest in fermentation and on the stall politeness, respect to the customers and interest in social interaction. If you are interested let us know. During the second half of April we would like to organize one or two smaller "schooling" so the interested ones would know how does it looks like in practice. The registration for the events happens in general x months in advance, so sooner we know who is in and if it fits, better. Financial reward at the moment is 250 Kč per hour, it depends on personal agreement because of the different options, working on yourself or being "employed" and in combination with products for wholesale prices. We want to continue to open Prague, South bohemian region and Pilsen region.
A teď edukačně akční okénko. Dáváme dohromady skupinku těch, kteří by se chtěli zůčastnit letošního ročníku Cider Worldu ve Frankfurtu, který se uskuteční v pátek 25. a v sobotu 26. dubna. Festival je velmi zajímavý a určitě stojí za to neb se jedná o jednu z největších cider akcí v Evropě. Těm, kteří zvažují budoucí spolupráci na trzích, degustacích či výrobě, by jsme vyšli vstříc a například by jsme pokryli cestu a bylo by možné prodiskutovat nějakou pomoc s ubytováním a lístky na akci (ale naše možnosti jsou omezené). Cena všech vstupů na pátek a sobotu je kolem 80€ / 2 000 Kč na osobu. Ubytování záleží na množství osob, ale mělo by být do 80€ / 2 000 Kč na dvě noci, apartmán pro pět až šest lidí. Odjezd na festival by byl ve čtvrtek odpoledne, odjezd z akce v sobotu večer. Doprava vyjde na cca 3 300 Kč komplet, bez opotřebování vozidla a jak je již zmíněno, jsme ochotni ji zadotovat, ale můžete i přispět.
Kvasírna Jara se zůčastnila cidrařské schůzky v Mořinkách u Karštejna a spolu s mnoha dalšími vstoupila do Svazu Malých Výrobců Cidru (SMVC). Cíle svazu jsou vytvoření komunikační platformy pro propagaci cidru, ale i řada dalších aktivit včetně práce na legislativě, více infa je zde.
Posledním bodem je výroční, tzv. sezónní zpráva, kterou doufám že vypustíme do světa během tohoto či příštího týdne, omlouváme se za zpoždění.
Co se týče základního info pro duben, tak to by bylo vše, jak se rozjíždí aktivity, tak je toho více a více. Přejeme Vám krásné jaro a brzy někde na viděnou!
Z Kouta na Šumavě zdraví,
František Apfelbeck
