Preserving your bounty
We are a small scale, family, apple pressing business located on the outskirts of Newcastle Emlyn.
We are here to help you enjoy your apples all year round by turning them into juice.
the process
We assume your apples have been grown without pesticides. If you have sprayed or treated your trees with anything, please let us know before you bring your apples to us. This helps us make sure the fruit is safe for our team to handle.
Grow Your Apples
Pick your apples when they are fully ripe.
Click HERE for our guide on knowing when your apples are ready, along with the best ways to pick them.
Pick Your Apples
Apples can be stored for up to four weeks in the right conditions, but we recommend bringing them to us within two weeks of picking for the best results.
You can find our guide to storing apples HERE.
Store Your Apples
When you arrive, we'll transfer your apples into our crates and inspect them, removing any rotten or unsuitable fruit before we begin.
Click HERE for our address.
Delivering apples
Before the apples are pulped, they're thoroughly washed to remove dirt, leaves and any other debris.
Clean apples make better juice.
Washing apples
This is where the apples are turned into pulp, ready for pressing.
We've carefully chosen our scratter to give the best possible juice yield from your apples.
Scratting apples
As this is our first year, we've chosen to use two hydro presses to give us plenty of flexibility. We have a 40-litre and a 90-litre press.
As a guide, 1kg of apples produces around 1 litre of pulp and 1 x 75cl bottle of juice, so the minimum amount needed to receive your own batch of juice back is 40kg. Don't worry though - that's only around the crop from one medium-sized tree!
Click HERE to see our guide to typical apple yields.
If you have fewer than 40kg, we're still happy to press them. Your apples will simply be combined with other small batches (including some of our own), and you'll receive delicious mixed orchard juice.
Pressing apples
Once pressed, your juice is flash pasteurised to keep it safe and fresh while holding on to as much of the natural flavour as possible. Our flash pasteuriser can process up to 200 litres of juice per hour.
We've decided to call it Gordon... Flash! Ah-ah! Saviour of the Universe!
Pasteurisation
We offer three packaging options:
Glass bottles, Bag-in-box, Your own container
PRICE TO FOLLOW SOON
Juice Bottling
Every bottle or box will be labelled with the ingredients, production date, best before date and batch number for full traceability, making it suitable for resale.
We'll also have a range of front label designs for you to choose from.
Designs coming soon!
Labelling options
To make transport easy, your finished juice will be packed into sturdy cardboard boxes ready for collection.
packaged for you
Once your juice is ready, we'll give you a call or send you an email to let you know how many bottles you've got. We'll also send your invoice, which can be paid before collection.
ready for Collection
Enjoy!
This is the best part of the whole process - sharing your own apple juice with friends and family all year round.
We'll also be sharing recipes, serving ideas and plenty of inspiration to help you make the most of every bottle.