{"id":233,"date":"2013-11-06T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:07:15","slug":"new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport\/","title":{"rendered":"New cider batch thanks to the folk of Newport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-236\" alt=\"500D_1801\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1801-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1801-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1801-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A clarion call to my village via Facebook turned up nearly enough apples for another demijohn full of fresh juice and another go at cider.\u00a0\u00a0 I washed them and chopped them, removing the bad and rotten bits, then put them through our borrowed scratter (smasher up of apples).<\/p>\n<p>I then pressed them in three batches and poured the juice in to a sterilised demijohn before adding a crushed campden tablet.\u00a0 Now to leave for 24 hours (patience!) before testing the specific gravity and deciding what I want the final product to be like.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-233 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport\/500d_1798\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1798-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-234\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-234'>\n\t\t\t\tA wide range of apples\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport\/500d_1801\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1801-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-236\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-236'>\n\t\t\t\tChopped and washed\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport\/500d_1800\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1800-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-235\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-235'>\n\t\t\t\tScratting\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport\/500d_1802\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1802-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-237\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-237'>\n\t\t\t\tThe juice\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clarion call to my village via Facebook turned up nearly enough apples for another demijohn full of fresh juice and another go at cider.\u00a0\u00a0 I washed them and chopped them, removing the bad and rotten bits, then put them through our borrowed scratter (smasher up of apples). I then pressed them in three batches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-cider-batch-thanks-to-the-folk-of-newport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New cider batch thanks to the folk of Newport<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cider","tag-newport-mixture-2013-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}