It's been quiet in the cider house through the new year, but major plans of blending, and bottling are underway. New bottles new labels and a brand new blend..Sweet Blossom Nectar more to come soon!

OK, how much do we love Oldtime Cider - Dave and Heather? Besides being supercool, incredibly interesting folks who helped us out at our last pressing....

The latest blog installment features..TCW - Check it! http://oldtimecider.com/

Fresh Hops Fest

Thanks to everyone who came out see us at the Yakima Fresh Hop Ale Fest!

The rainy cold evening didn't even get close to slowing down the crowd. Got lots of great feedback, and went home in the rain with 8 empty kegs. Oh! and huge thanks to Jody from Walla Walla Brewers and Jim "the geatest volunteer ever" for saving the day several times and just generally helping out us gals w/a few "keg snafus". And of course to Susan G. for driving over the hill, hanging out in the rain, cold and cigar smoke to serve up our delicious cider to a thristy crowd.

We will be back next year for sure!

Come visit us!

Tieton Cider Works will be sampling cider at the Yakima Fresh Hop Ale Festival Saturday October 3rd.

6-11 p.m. Saturday - Millennium Arts Plaza, 7 So. Third St. Yakima

This is a benefit for Allied Arts who we love and is a supercool asset to the community. Come on out and taste the cider and yummy ales.

http://www.freshhopalefestival.com/index.html

Bottling

OK So nothing went really smoothly with bottling...(maybe the pneumatic capper?) But we

persevered and after a few hard to understand phone calls to the crazy Czechoslovakian who fabricated the bottle filler, and lots of carbonated well water..we got the cider in the bottle!

3 blends of 12 x 750 ml + 8 kegs filled and staying nice and cold until the Yakima Fresh Hops Fest, the 2008 press is good to go.

Pressing Sept 2009 video

Pressing

Our super new line that Craig, Jim , Kelly and Roy helped put together this summer worked like a champ.

No more standing bent over horse troughs full of freezing cold water, no more soaking wet hands and feet, no more lifting totes of apples in and out of bins and hand feeding the mill.

We have a bin dump, belts, rollers, elevator..super cool. We pressed 9 bins in @ 3 1/2 hours.

Picking

Harvest time is here for our cider apples,

and it's pretty darn exciting.

Sharon, Craig and I picked the Airport ranch- and got a good taste of what's to come.

To name a few...
Bulmers Norman, Stoke Red (a real spitter according to Fred), Kingston Black, Yarlington Mill, Chisel Jersey,Brown Snout, Vilberie, Harry Masters Jersey, Muscat de Berney, Dabinette, Calville de Blanc..and the words largest Bramley's Seedling ever...