In the cellar
2025
Ember
No apple in it, and no apology.
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Naturally fermented · Locally crafted
In the dark, the ravens set out. They keep what the world forgets.
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The keeping
No. 00
Cider is what happens when you leave a good apple in peace, and let time, oak and patience do the rest.
We keep no orchard. We drive the country for fruit that would otherwise rot; surplus from organic farmers, crooked apples the supermarket won't take, backyard trees, allotment crates, and turn it into cider with an origin more widely branched than any industrial brand.
The keeper
The Flock
MMXXV · IV birds
This year's vintage.
Four ciders from the 2025 pressing. No fixed recipe, no fixed apple; each one a different bird entirely.
In the cellar
2025 · I
I
MMXXV · Apple–Pear
Common Ground
Neither apple nor pear, but a third thing.
A bitter English spine softened by two pears. Tall, dry, faintly tannic, with a long quiet finish.
In the cellar
2025 · II
II
MMXXV · Apple Cider
Silkfield
Nameless they went in, nameless they remained.
Slow in oak, deepened and rounded. Sweet at the edge, grave at the centre. A cider that speaks low and means it.
In the cellar
2025 · III
III
MMXXV · Apple Cider
Changeling
The one that would not stay what it was.
Honeyed and uncanny — a sweetness no apple ever carried. Restless on the tongue, gone before you place it.
In the cellar
2025 · IV
IV
MMXXV · Apple Cider
French Press
Made for long evenings.
Golden, supple and full. Neither sweet nor sharp but mannered, somewhere in between. Elegant and unhurried.
Other ferments
Beyond the apple
Not only cider.
Ginger beer, water kefir, sake and whatever the ravens drag back next. Live, small-batch, and a little wayward.
The Archive
Every bird we've kept
The Archive
Every cider the ravens have kept, by year — including the sold-out and the one that will not pass this way again.
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Find us
Poured in bars, bottle shops and restaurants — and at festivals, markets and the cellar door. No webshop, by design.
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From the cellar
Word from the dark
May 2025
The new vintage is bottled
Four ciders from the 2025 pressing are conditioning in the dark. Common Ground and Silkfield pour now; the rest follow as they're ready.
Apr 2025
A stranger in the tanks
One batch went its own way again last year. We never fight it. Changeling will not pass this way again.
Mar 2025
Driving for fruit
Crates from a Limburg grower, three old high-stem trees in the Achterhoek, a crate left on a doorstep. The keeping continues.