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These pages belong to Andrew Lea. I'm a chemist / plant biochemist / food scientist by profession, and in my 'day job' I'm the former head (now semi-retired) of the Beverage Research section in a contract food analysis and consultancy company.
But I'm also an amateur cider maker. This all started when I worked
at the Long Ashton Research Station near Bristol, where I
took my Ph.D
in the 1970's. When Thatcherism forced the closure of the Research
Station's
cider research programme after 83 glorious years, I moved with my
family
to South Oxfordshire and was lucky enough to be able to plant a small
cider
orchard of my own. It's not very big - just 33 trees of 11 different
'vintage'
varieties on dwarf rootstocks which produce just a few hundred litres a
year. Not enough to sell or anything, but fun to do and an interesting
way of combining a personal and professional interest!
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