33. The Somerset Cider
When you’re in the business of making cider, you need to be able to predict the future.
Growing a single apple tree for cider-making takes years. Plant an orchard, and you’re betting on customers’ taste buds decades ahead of time.
On this week’s The Factory Next Door we head to the village of Sandford by the Mendip Hills to visit Thatchers Cider.
Number 33 on our list of the greatest products we make here is The Somerset Cider.
Martin Thatcher, 4th generation cider maker, and his daughter Eleanor, 5th generation cider maker, give us a tour of their apple library, explain the unique challenges of brewing cider, and celebrate the joys of remaining a family-owned business.
We also visit the world’s most-beautiful orchard, learn the importance of regenerative farming, and I get the tables turned on me and must explain myself.
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