Jul 29, 2009

July 24th- Apricot harvest + the New Tanks Arrive!

It was an action packed weekend ...

- Craig finished harvesting cherries -(over 130 pickers!) with another crew in the apricots just getting going strong, picking and packing in the barn, then off to CPC to get cooled. And man, those white La Creme Apricots (or Creme de la Creme if you ask Sharon..) the flavor was out of this world.

- Sharon, Cindy and Maria were sorting out the cider blends for Community days- 4 kegs got put up- all refrigerators in the immediate area were full of cider - 20 gallons of cider (and only a slight CO2 mishap which resulted in cider shower all over the office kitchen- sorry Roy- thats what the smell is!).

- The new fermentation tanks arrived- 4 500 gallon-ers -one w/temp control. Tony and Craig placed each tank on its SC Green powder coated stand and Craig worked into Sat eve installing the fittings. Starting to look like a real cidery in there.

- More plans made for the Tieton community days parade ..stay tuned for the TCW float it's going to be a hoot!

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