The Cider Digest

This is an e-mail discussion group with about 600 subscribers, moderated by Dick Dunn who's an amateur mead and cider maker living in the gloriously named town of Hygiene, Colorado! Dick issues it on a roughly weekly basis, but more frequently when people in the Northern Hemisphere are thinking most about cider (e.g. from September to December!) and are therefore sending in more contributions. It tends to be populated mostly by North Americans, with a smattering of those from elsewhere (e.g. Germany, Australia and a few of us from the UK). Well worth subscribing to, for an interesting mix of opinions and news about small-scale hobby and commercial cidermaking.

To subscribe, simply e-mail "cider-request@talisman.com" with a request to subscribe in the message. When doing this, please include your name and a good e-mail address in the message body unless you're sure your mailer generates them.

More information, and archives of the Cider Digest are also available for download at http://www.talisman.com/cider/index.html#Archives

More recently a specific Google-hosted UK Cider e-mail discussion group has started up (organised, though not specifically moderated, by Andy Roberts).  This began simply as a forum for UK cider drinkers, but now covers amateur cidermaking too. One of its newer features is a set of associated 'wiki' pages which are beginning to form a really useful compendium of information on where UK cider may be found and how to make it on a small scale.  More details at http://ukcider.co.uk/ and follow the Google link to subscribe.
 

Vigo Ltd

Vigo is the place to go for all manner of cider and wine-making equipment in the UK.  They sell mills, presses, tanks, pumps, hoses, chemical sundries - the works!!  You can find them at:

Vigo Ltd
Dunkeswell Airfield
Dunkeswell
Honiton
Devon
EX14 4LF  (England)  Tel: +44 (0) 1404 890262   Fax  +44 (0) 1404 890263
e-mail:  sales@vigoltd.com

Their website is at www.vigoltd.com.   This shows a selection of equipment for the hobby cidermaker, which you can buy on line, but their full printed catalogue is much more detailed and includes lots of commercial kit too. I buy all my stuff from them and I highly recommend them.  I believe they will happily export overseas.  Their Managing Director, Alex Hill, also makes and sells superb naturally-conditioned cider as the 'Bollhayes' brand!

For cidermakers in the USA and Canada looking for a domestic supplier, I've been told that the following are the places to go -  I have no personal experience of them myself, of course, being on the wrong side of the pond!

Goodnature Products, Inc.
P.O. Box 866
Buffalo, NY 14240
(716) 855-3325
Products: Juice extractors, pasteurizers, presses, tanks

Happy Valley Ranch
16577 W. 327 Street, Dept. 8D
Paola, KS 66071
(913) 849-3103
Products: Juice extractors, small scale mills and presses
http://www.happyvalleyranch.com

Correll Cider Presses
24791 Warthen Road
Elmira, OR 97437
(541) 935-3825
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bobcider/index.html

Lehman Hardware
PO Box 41
Kidron
OH 44636
http://www.lehmans.com
 
 

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