3 Sons Cider

27/07/2024

I’m quite sad this is one of the few photos I have of David. Man what a legend to the cider community. I’ll miss you so much my friend. Vale.

02/06/2024

It’s that time of the year when you want something hot and boozy, perfect time for a mulled cider!

Take one traditional style dry cider such as our Somerset Redstreak cider and in a pot add the ingredients show above. From top left star anise, brown sugar, cinnamon, elderflower, cardamom, orange peel, juniper berries, bay, rosemary and pop then all into a small style mesh bag, tea infuser or hop spider. Simmer to 65c and pour into your favourite sipping mug.

Huzzah!

#2614

25/02/2024

Wow. It is finally time to post what has been five years in the making. We have a Calvados! Not that we can officially call it that but it is what it is.

After what started as an off hand conversation over five years ago with Tim, we have a limited release of just under 200 bottles of this wonderful tasting apple brandy. Beautifully smooth and with gorgeous cider notes this brandy has been distilled from our full cider apple cider and then oaked for a long time. The result is magnificent!

I cannot thank Tim, Paul, Leo and many others from .distillery enough for their massive work in helping this come to pass. I’m eternally grateful.

If you’d like a bottle send me a message.

16/10/2023

Get to be an associate judge in the dry new world category. Getting to taste some great ciders I hope!

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13/10/2023

Post from Real Cider Reviews of our keeved cider.

Follow the link here https://www.realciderreviews.com to find it.

14/05/2023

Its that time of year again! Make sure you book your accommodation in either Tumut or Tumbarumba if there is any still available.

For a good little article about Ciderfest, have a look at the about regional website aboutregional.com.au

08/04/2023

When the apple karma fairies throw you a googlie in a most unexpected way.

Three buckets of keeve fruit milled, and then your scratter motor goes “clunk”. Dead as a dodo.

It is of course Easter Thursday after 5pm. Call around anyone I know locally who may potentially have a scratter I can borrow, but like me it’s apple season and everyone is busy!

Luckily I know these awesome guys at in Melbourne who were able to source me a new Voran 3 phase industrial quality mill. Should last me a lifetime now.

And then when I get back, the 3 phase plug doesn’t fit into my outlet. Special thanks out to Dean our sparky friend extraordinaire just down the road who got me out of trouble. Thanks !!

After the egg hunt it will be mill like crazy to get this done before we go on our cruise on Tuesday. Keeve juice can sit at 2c until I get back to add the enzyme.

Fingers crossed. What else could go wrong?

#2614

26/03/2023

Well it’s the beginning of that time of the year again. This trailer load is a special load of fruit destined for the third attempt of the black art of keeving. After many attempts and talking to experts from France, it’s mainly about fruit selection.

This trailer load (insider the garage so the possums won’t get it) is mainly sweets and bitter sweets with a small selection of bitter sharps and some acidic apples. Keeves don’t like too much acid apparently so fingers crossed!

On the plus side, my whole garage now smells of delicious cider fruit!

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29/07/2022

Ready to grow your own apples? It’s that time year again when I’m pruning and you can grab a scion for the whopping price of $2 per variety. We have the following: Kingston Black, dabinett, peasgood nonsuch, brown snout, bulmers Norman, Michelin, stokes red, worchester Permian, Bramley, Freyberg, Clozette, improved foxwhelp, Somerset redstreak, beauty of bath, and reidsdale red.
Looks like an early spring so you’ll need to graft on within a few weeks I would suggest
Either PM or email if you’re interested.

11/07/2022

Anyone in the CBR region want some lemons? There is only so much lemon related bits and bobs I can make before they overripen. Send me a PM if you want some!

And no, lemon and cider does not mix. I’ve tried the resulting product was not pleasant!

#2614

17/05/2022

There is still time to get your tickets for the awesome day that is Batlow Ciderfest! Unlike last year with freezing sleet, it is meant to be a lovely 16c so no reason not to come along!

We will have our Son of Cranky (almost the same as the best in class Cranky Pomme from a few years ago), Yarlington Mill, Naughty Nanna, Ginger Apple, mulled cider and sparkling apple juice.

Can’t wait!

#2614

08/05/2022

Love your cider and want to understand a bit more? Cider Australia is having our AGM and orchard tour on Thursday 19th May, followed by the AusCider cider conference and sensory tasting session. You don’t need to be in the industry to get something out of it.

Batlow Ciderfest is the next day!

Have a look at the link here https://www.cideraustralia.org.au/auscider-2022-conference-tickets-now-on-sale/

#2614

30/04/2022

And it’s back! Much softer tasting this year due to a different yeast strain, AS2. Needs to age and go through MLF but already tasting divine.

#2614

21/03/2022

thankyou all whom have contacted me re the trailer - Dave from The Apple Thief ciders has one that I'm able to borrow. Thanks mate!

21/03/2022

Big ask, but does anyone have a dual axel trailer capable of carrying one tonne of weight that I’d be able to borrow overnight next week? Given fuel costs I’d rather not have to take two trips up to Orange next week to collect processed juice.

Only asking as I’m struggling to find one to hire.

Thanks!

Any help would be appreciated!

11/03/2022

Make sure you book for tickets for the Canberra Beer and Cider festival one week from today.

We will have our Naughty Nanna, Ginger Apple, Perry and our metheglin.

Tickets can be purchased via the Facebook event page https://facebook.com/events/s/canberra-craft-beer-cider-fest/986957841888984/

#2614

24/02/2022

Make sure you come and visit us at the Royal Canberra Show this weekend and be the first to sample our super smooth perry, made from pears from from Armidale. Couldn’t be more happy with it!

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17/02/2022

Cleaning out great nans shed after her passing last November, and we found some very old tools her dad had when he built the house. This was one of them and I have no idea what it is. It looks like it crimps something but that’s a guess. It’s quite old and mad of what I think is solid brass.

Any ideas?

31/12/2021

Well that’s another year gone. Highs and lows which I’m sure is the same for everyone. However have a few things on the card for the year ahead - perry, mead, keeved cider and our pink lady again.

It also marks the third year out of the past five where one of our ciders has been ranked in the top five ciders in Australia. See link below

https://www.realciderreviews.com/news/real-cider-reviews-best-ciders-of-2021/

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11/09/2021

Project Python- a metheglin (spice/herbed) mead at 9% ABV. Made with wonderful honey from The Honeysmith] and our own elderflower, rosemary, bay, juniper and a few other bits and pieces, including some cider fruit.

There will be a few select bottles of the test batch going to cider friends before the next large batch starts in about a month.

The Honeysmith] I have a bottle for you, Kurt.

Whilst I do love cider, it’s great to be able to make a variant of the worlds oldest recorded alcoholic drink!

#2614

02/09/2021

Bit late into the week I know, but Father’s Day special for pickup available. A four pack of two Yarlington Mill and two Naughty Nanna ciders for $25.

Credit card only and pickup from our cidery in Aranda between 10am - 5pm for today, Friday and Saturday.

We are not a contact site, and fully vaxed.

Please text on 0418635945 before coming over to ensure entirely contactless pickup and payment.

Doug

29/07/2021

Have to announce the first attempt at the keeve while successful was also a fail. Added waaay to much of the calcium salt so it ended up unpalatable on the salty side of things. Lesson learned. Hopefully next years attempt will be more successful.

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20/06/2021

It’s about to be pruning time. Next week I’ll be pruning all the fruit trees so will have scions available for sale at $2 each. We have the following trees that will be ready for the chop:

Improved Foxwhelp, Kingston Black, Somerset red streak, bulmers Norman, pink lady, Granny Smith, Freyberg, Cox’s Orange Pippin, dabinett, Bramleys seedling, red Stoke and brown snout.

I also have three dabinett established trees for sale $30 each. They’re about 1.2m tall in 40 pots

PM or email next week if you’re interested.

#2614

12/05/2021

I hope you have all booked your tickets! Going to be one crazy (and very cold day at a lovely tropical 10C ) day. We're bringing our Naughty Nanna, Yarlington Mill, Ginger Apple, Wild Thing (low alcohol cider) and mulled cider.

Who can't wait to sample the drinks offered by this wonderful group? See you this Saturday in Batlow! Don't forget to pre-purchase your tickets. Remember. No ticket sales at the gate this year. https://www.ticketebo.com.au/batlow-ciderfest-2021.html

07/05/2021

Just a quick heads up but this morning on Canberra ABC radio, yours truly has been prerecorded for the food and wine section of the breakfast show. Listen in if interested and I’ll post the link once it’s available to stream later.

edit: here is the link for part one. Part two is towards the base of the page, and part three in three weeks

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/canberra/programs/saturdaybreakfast/aranda-cider-house-tour/13336020

#2614

06/05/2021

Hello 3Sons Collective. I am the borg. Resistance is futile.

I have about 400kg of Kingston Black cider apples if anyone would like to grab some. $1 per kg. Really cheap. Google them for more detail.

They are all being crushed starting today and I hope to have the bin done by Monday at the latest.

They will not have as high a yield as culinary fruit so best crushed and then left overnight to macerate. I can give you a little extraction enzyme but it’s a very strong beast. No more than an hour after addition should you press it otherwise enjoy the apple soup.

Call / Message / Email / Migrating Coconut to me if you’d like to grab some.

04/05/2021

I thought this was pretty neat - an apple or pear fruit filler that moves up as it fills the bin. Got to see this in action as I met up with in Armidale after also catching up briefly with as well as family. Long way to come but all worth it after not having seen them for a year.

Benefit of also taking home a ute full of red d’anjo, howells and burre Bosc pears.

09/04/2021

Funny how the addition of a new chain to kick the legs out slightly, and a few coats of natural decking oil ha e made this bad boy look so much better. It’s now also inside the house out of the cidery taking up valuable floor space. How people would have this as you walked through the front door!

And in case you don’t know, it’s called a riddling rack, used in one of the stages of production for méthode traditionnelle products.

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04/04/2021

Odd question, but anyone who has attended one of workshops in the past few years, I would have given you a handout of a list of North American eating apples and suggested combo's. If anyone still has a copy or took a photo could they send it my way please - I seem to have deleted it by accident and cannot for the life of me find it again.

thanks!

30/03/2021

Hi everyone. Please note that all booking spaces for the upcoming workshops have been filled! Given the higher than normal interest, we will be looking at running another weekends worth in spring, probably during September holidays.

If you only found out about this too late and would like to register your interest in a future course, please send me an email at [email protected] and i'll start a little spreadsheet to keep a list for the spring.

Cheers!