Cider Digest #1082

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Cider Digest #1082                                         9 October 2003 

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Contents: 
  press cloth (Brian Ross) 
  Somerset Pomona - was Chisel Jersey ("Pete Tallman") 
  press cloths ("chris horn") 
  Charley's Book (Andrew Lea) 

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Subject: press cloth 
From: Brian Ross <rossoon@imag.net> 
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:29:16 -0700 

I would vote for nylon screen as being both small pore and durable. My 
stuff was not hardware window screen however. If you can find a store 
that caters to camping and hiking, get the "no see um" ultra fine bug 
net. It is tough; and designed to exclude the midges that see regular 
mosquito net as a stunt flight obstacle. Throw in either the washing 
machine or dishwasher to clean. 

 Brian Ross 

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Subject: Somerset Pomona - was Chisel Jersey 
From: "Pete Tallman" <pete_tallman@hotmail.com> 
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 19:55:39 -0600 

I ordered my Somerset Pomona in early September from The DoveCote Press in  
UK. No problem shipping to USA at printed-matter rate, no backorder. Arrived  
within a couple of weeks. Final charge on the MasterCard bill $20.84, which  
included book and shipping. Can't beat that. Great book for the apples of  
their interest. I've annotated my copy to note varieties available from  
Cummins Nursery and Nick Botner. 

Pete Tallman, Longmont, CO, USA     cider beginner, zone 5 

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Subject: press cloths 
From: "chris horn" <agent_strangelove@hotmail.com> 
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:50:52 -0700 

This may sound really weird but I found it by accident several years ago....  
  I use swim suit liner for my press bags.  It's the white open weaved stuff  
normally found on the inside of a guy swim trunks.  A roommate stitched one  
for me in when I was in college and now my mother has made a number of them  
for my father as well as a number of other press owners.  It's very tough  
and stands up to years and years of being run thought the washer machine.   
It's not something that is found at the run of the mill fabic store but you  
can find it at a good outdoor fabic supply place.  Mine came from The Rain  
Shed  (541) 753-8900, 707 NW 11th St, Corvallis, OR 97330  
www.therainshed.com 

Chris Horn 
Scappoose Oregon USA 

'We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who  
have not a single virtue' 
                           Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld 

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Subject: Charley's Book 
From: Andrew Lea <andrew_lea@compuserve.com> 
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:40:48 +0100 

In case anyone's interested, there seem to be a couple of copies of 
Charley's classic 'Principles and Practice of Cider-Making' available 
through www.bookfinder.com just at the moment, at around the $150 mark. 
Type <cider-making> (be sure to include the hyphen) into the Title box. 

This book is Charley's 1949 English translation of Warcollier's 'La 
Cidrerie' from 1928.  Vernon Charley was head of the Long Ashton cider 
section until the late 1940's when he left to set up the post-war 
production of Carter's Ribena blackcurrant syrup at a new factory in 
Coleford in Gloucestershire. Carter's was taken over by Beechams in the 
50's and eventually became a part of the 'consumer healthcare' division 
of the pharmaceutical multinational which is GSK.  The Coleford factory 
is still a part of GSK, Ribena is still produced there, and the stone by 
the entrance door is still the one laid by Charley with his name upon it. 

Andrew Lea, nr Oxford, UK 
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Wittenham Hill Cider Page 
http://www.cider.org.uk 

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