We collect apples and pears that people don’t use and don’t want. These typically come from gardens, although there are handful of orchards we collect from. We decided to build our cyder business this way because of our shared ethos of community, regeneration and reuse. Because we’re nerds we take photos of all the apples we collect and keep meticulous records of which apples went into which batches of cider. When blended they don’t make much difference per variety but they do, per type. Our Ipswich Cider is a blend of dessert and culinary apples, dry and a little sharp it is the essence of an Eastern Counties style cider. The cider apple varieties are different again, mixing bitter-sweet and bitter-sharp varieties with higher tannins gives a deeper, more rounded flavour reminiscent of a West Country cider.

If you would like to donate your apples to our ‘project’ then please get in touch - we offer a 500ml bottle of cider (or perry) for every 30Kgs of fruit used (up to a maximum of 12 bottles), unless you want to offer your own branded cider, then that’s another conversation...