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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A touch of pre-pressing, baskets-of-pears-on-pickup wrangling. Now we're pressing Blakeney Red pears. The next ones to harvest will be Hendre Huffcap, and then it's on to the apples! 😮

Paul wrangling baskets of pears on the back of the pickup

Baskets of Blakeney Red pears on the back of the pickup

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Beautiful Court Royal apples from this morning's dog walk through Lulu's orchard. The Court Royal trees are doing really well and don't the apples look gorgeous?

Very attractive red/orange/yellow Court Royal apples hanging on a tree in Temple Cider's "Lulu's orchard"

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Following on from the last video, here the Thorn perry pears are being pressed. We build the next cheese while the current one is pressing. Wasps are always very interested in the pears!

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We've picked up all of the Thorn perry pears and 2026's pressing has commenced. Here Paul is making a Thorn 'cheese' (at 2x speed). Once all the cheeses have been built, it's ready to be pressed. #perrypearpressing #pressingpears #thornperry #dorsetperry

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2026 perry pear harvest has begun! We've picked up all of the Thorn and yesterday we moved on to picking Hellen's Early. The start of a very long harvesting road! Today, pressing has begun - pressing the Thorn perry pears. 🍐

Paul looking uncharacteristically excited at the prospect of picking up pears. Standing in an orchard, next to a pear tree, with thumbs up and a smile/grimace.

Basket of Thorn pears on the orchard floor with more pears on the ground and trees in the background.

Thorn perry pears, freshly collected, complete with a leaf or two.

Hellen's Early perry pear trees in an orchard with some pears still on the trees and some on the ground.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The grass might be brown, the ground might be hard, but despite having virtually zero rain all summer, our perry pears are looking fabulous. Miraculous! 🎉 We're looking forward to harvesting these beauties very soon. Pear varieties in the photos are Blakeney Red and Winnal's Longdon.

Blakeney Red pears, almost ripe, on the tree with parched brown grass and a blue sky in the background.

A parched looking row in a Dorset perry pear orchard.

Lots of purplish red Winnal's Longdon pears hanging in clusters on the tree in the orchard.

Blakeney Red pears on a tree in a Dorset orchard on a sunny August day. The grass is totally brown and the sky is brilliant blue.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

NEW! Morgan Sweet 2025 7.4% Tiny batch: 218 bottles! Our first Morgan Sweet and we're very impressed with the apple and the resulting cider. A sparkling, dry cider that's a bright yellow/gold. Even with a low-tannin apple, we've managed to make a fairly tannic cider! It's a mystery to us too. 🙃

500ml bottle of Temple Cider's Morgan Sweet 2025 dry, sparkling cider. The bottle has a handwritten label and is standing on a metal garden table, with grass and trees in the background.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

2025 vintage of our draught Yarlington Mill and Somerset Redstreak is now ready! 🎉 Available in 10L bag-in-box from our webshop: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... For trade customers, available in 10L & 20L bag-in-box. Email for details or see Eebria: www.eebriatrade.com/producer/r/t... 🍎🍻

Pump clip image for Temple Cider's Somerset Redstreak 2025 single variety dry cider. 7.2% abv

Pump clip image for Temple Cider's Yarlington Mill 2025 single variety dry cider. 7.3% abv

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

NEW! Kingston Black 2024 500ml 7.3% Still, dry cider. Well-balanced, bright and fresh. Only around 600 bottles - well, there were, but we did have to test them before release. 🍻 Available on our webshop as a case of 12, or select in a mixed case: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... Enjoy! 😊

500ml bottle of Temple Cider's Kingston Black 2023 on a metal garden table with long, lush grass and blue sky with clouds in the background.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

NEW PERRY! 🍐 500ml Prince's Perry! Named after our 13yo GSD x Collie who loves to run in the orchard where we harvest the pears. Deliciously light, dry perry, from traditional varieties including Hendre Huffcap & Brandy Pear. 5% abv Nothing added. It's just pears! Available from our webshop. 😊

500ml bottle of Temple Cider's Prince's Perry, on a metal garden table with green grass and shrubs behind, and a bright blue sky with whispy clouds.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! We hope you are having a peaceful bank holiday weekend. We had a lovely morning walk, enjoying the beautiful pear blossom in Gollop Orchard today. 🍐

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Decisions, decisions! It had to be the classic Yarlington Mill for a Friday! 🍻🥂

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

NEW: Ellis Bitter & Kingston Black Keeved 2023 Naturally sparkling, naturally sweet. Nothing added When a young cider it tasted of rhubarb and custard sweets! Still has hints of rhubarb with other fruits On our webshop as a case of 6: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... Or choose a mixed case

750ml bottle of Temple Cider's Ellis Bitter & Kingston Black Keeved 2023 on a black background

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Filling gaps in our perry pear orchard. These are 2-year-old Eyewood trees, the graftwood was from an ancient pear tree in a nearby cider orchard. A healthy tree and regular cropper, the perry keeves and is easy drinking. With 60 trees to plant, mostly Eyewood, is this the future of Dorset perry? 😉

Pear orchard in winter under a grey sky, with newly planted tree in the foreground.

Pear orchard in winter under a grey sky, with newly planted trees in the foreground.

Pear orchard in winter, viewed from the top of the orchard, looking down the hill. Dorset countryside in the distance.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Look at the colour and clarity of this Porter's Perfection juice we pressed a few days ago!

A glass containing a small amount of light pink, translucent Porter's Perfection apple juice. Farm scene in the background.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Our International Cider Challenge Gold award winning Yarlington Mill Keeved cider. The perfect Christmas gift! 🎁 Available from our webshop: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... Also from Cork & Crown: www.corkandcrown.co.uk/buy-cider-an...

Bottle of Temple Cider's Yarlington Mill Keeved 2022 standing on a trough with purple flowers. In the top right corner of the photo, the International Cider Challenge 2025 gold award medal image is superimposed.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Porter's Perfection now safely gathered in, and that should have been the last day of harvesting for 2025... but, Paul...! 🫣

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Emergency bottling! Apple picking and pressing were put on hold today as we'd sold out of 500ml bottles of Whisky Barrel Aged cider. 😮 It is such a popular cider at this time of year, so we had to get this bottling done. It made a pleasant change to take photos of something other than fruit too. 😉

Small cider bottling setup on a wooden table, with two full 500ml bottles of cider in the foreground and four 500ml bottles being filled. Stainless steel fermenting tanks surround the table.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Fabulous Sweet Coppin apples that we pressed a few days ago but didn't get around to posting the photos. Time is flying by and it's been a harvest and a half!

Sweet Coppin apples waiting to be washed

Sweet Copping apples being sorted ready to be washed

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is the first harvest that we've had enough fruit on the Black Dabinett to make a sv pressing worthwhile. 🍎 These are from trees we planted around the biggest pond on the farm. (We have created a lot of ponds - this is Dorset, after all!) Maisie isn't as impressed as she should be. 🐶

Black Dabinett apples in baskets after hand-harvesting.

Black Dabinett apples in baskets after hand-harvesting. Maisie the collie x kelpie stands at the side of them, looking towards the camera, wearing her blue coat and a bored expression.

Black Dabinett apples in baskets after hand-harvesting. Maisie the collie x kelpie is stood by the side of them, wearing her blue coat, eyes cast downwards, wishing she was doing something more exciting.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A week today we'll be at Washingpool Farm Shop's Producers Fest 25, offering tastings of a selection of our small-batch Dorset ciders. Come along and say hello!

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Our favourite apple variety: Yarlington Mill. The apples are generally smaller this year, and not producing so much juice - presumably due to the long hot summer. The taste is wonderful though, and that's what matters.

Crates of Yarlington Mill apples we harvested by hand in a local orchard.

Yarlington Mill apples having a bath before being milled and pressed.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Dreary Mondays need new cider! This is the first time we've put a Whisky Barrel Aged cider into bag-in-box. Also the first time we've done it as a medium-dry. Nice! 🍻

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Only one keg remaining of our Coat Jersey 2021 single varietal, live, naturally sparkling cider. It's been a really popular one. 🍻 On Eebria now if you want it!

Image of the pump clip for Temple Cider's Coat Jersey 2021 keg-fermented cider. 6.6% abv

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

NEW cider! 🍎Kingston Black 2023🍎 Naturally sparkling, wild-fermented dry cider from Dorset. We hand-harvested the Kingston Black apples in the autumn of 2023. Delicious! Available from our webshop in a case of 6, or select as part of a mixed 750ml case. www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

A 750ml bottle of Temple Cider's Kingston Black 2023 cider on an old wooden garden bench. It has a pink and purple hand-drawn image on the label featuring three ducks - two black, one white.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A huge Hendre Huffcap perry pear. Some are quite tiny, and then you get monsters like this one. Picking them up would be much easier if they were all monsters! 😅

A huge Hendre Huffcap perry pear on kitchen scales showing its weight as 206g

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Trade announcement... NEW single-varietal keg-conditioned Brandy Pear Perry 2023, available now. 5.2%. Naturally sparkling, wild-fermented, live perry in a keg!

Temple Cider pump clip for Brandy Pear Perry 2023.
Full Juice - Handpicked Pears.
Natural Sparkle
5.2%

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Paul has done lots of picking-up of apples and pears in the rain this week. These are Morgan Sweet. From the tree to the truck!

A Morgan Sweet apple tree, laden with yellow-green fruit

The back of a blue pickup truck filled with red and grey baskets of Morgan Sweet apples, with an old farm building in the background

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Bloody Ploughman is a stunning-looking apple. This is one of the trees we planted around the farm buildings not long after we moved to Temple Farm. Looking back to when we planted those trees, we had no clue that 10 years later we'd be 'Temple Cider'.

Bright, dark red, shiny Bloody Ploughman apples on a tree.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Photos from our pear harvesting yesterday.

A Blakeney Red pear on the orchard floor

A basket of Blakeney Red pears on the orchard floor

A beautiful blue moth we came across when hand-harvesting pears

A row of pear trees that we've just collected pears from, in a parched-looking orchard

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Harvest 2025 has begun! We started with Hellen's Early, but then realised the Thorn perry pears were slightly riper so moved on to harvesting Thorn instead. First two photos are the Thorn, and in the final photo Hellen's Early are in the foreground. Many more hauls like this to come!

Hellen's Early and Thorn perry pears in baskets in the back of a pickup truck

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

🍐🍐NEW PERRY 🍐🍐 Hendre Huffcap & Blakeney Red Perry 2023 has been unleashed and it's deliciously light and refreshing. 🥂 Available here: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... Or select it as part of a mixed case of 750s: www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

Bottle of Temple Cider's Hendre Huffcap & Blakeney Red Perry 2023 on a wooden bench in the sunshine.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We are delighted to announce that our Yarlington Mill Keeved 2022 has won a gold medal in the International Cider Challenge. 🎆 Thank you so much to the expert judges for rating this cider as highly as we do. 🥂 Available now from our webshop! #ICC2025

A bottle of Temple Cider's Yarlington Mill Keeved 2022 cider, on the edge of a flower trough. The International Cider Challenge 2025 Gold medal is in the corner of the photo.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

How to break the news to him that his Kingston Black 'ball' really has got to go to apple heaven now.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Tell me you're a cider dog without telling me you're a cider dog. 🐶🍏

Black and tan dog looking up from his bed. He has his paw on a stick and has a Kingston Black cider apple at the side of him that he collected earlier.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

After the bright lights of Bristol Cider Salon yesterday, a dull morning in the orchard today. 2025 is shaping up to be a bumper harvest!

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Yarlington Mill 2024, draught Bag-in-Box, has now been released! 10L on our webshop: templecider.co.uk/temple-cider... 10L on Eebria Trade: eebriatrade.com/products/cid... 20L on Eebria Trade: www.eebriatrade.com/products/cid...

Temple Cider Yarlington Mill 2024 pump clip image

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

NEW! KEG-CONDITIONED PERRY! Live, full-juice perry from handpicked Blakeney Red pears. Nothing added. Juicy acidity and a soft tannic finish. 5.2% abv Fermentation completed inside the keg to give a natural, gentle sparkle. 30L kegs available on Eebria now: www.eebriatrade.com/products/cid...

Bright Pink/Red pump clip image which says: Temple Cider, Blakeney Red Perry 2023. Full Juice - Handpicked Pears, Natural Sparkle, 5.2%

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We could be accused of being slightly too literal with our pump clip colour choices. 🤣😂🙃

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Perfect weather for cracking open a can of naturally sparkling, full-juice cider, straight from the fridge. Order a mixed case from our website now! www.templecider.co.uk/temple-cider...

3 cans of can-conditioned, naturally sparkling Temple Cider on a garden bench. Left to right: Kingston Black, Somerset Redstreak, Yarlington Mill.

Can of can-conditioned, naturally sparkling Temple Cider: Somerset Redstreak 2022 on a garden table.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Kingston Black and Yarlington Mill apples - photos taken yesterday. This is a mature orchard that we have picked fruit from since 2019. Its trees have provided apples for some of our favourite ciders.

Immature Kingston Black apples hanging on the tree.

Immature Yarlington Mill apples hanging on the tree.

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Temple Cider @templecider.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If today isn't a 'can of live Somerset Redstreak in the sunshine' kind of day, then when is? Also, we earned it: we made it! 🥂

Glass of Temple Cider Somerset Redstreak 2022, on a garden table, with the can at its side.

Glass of Temple Cider Somerset Redstreak 2022, viewed from above, on a garden table, with the can at its side.

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