Craft Cider Making

This book is for anyone who wants to grow and to make good cider or even simple apple juice. Whether you have a back garden with a couple of apple trees, several acres of orchard deep in the countryside, or you’re just ‘scrumping’ apples from friends and neighbors every autumn, this book is for you.

Andrew Lea is a retired food biochemist who started his career in the tea industry and then spent 13 years from 1972 to 1985 at the Long Ashton Research Station (the National Fruit and Cider Institute). For the past 20 years he has been a hobby cider maker with his own small orchard and cider press and has won many prizes at national and international cider competitions. The managing director of the foremost UK fruit press manufacturer has called Andrew the 'grandfather of UK cider making.'