Great stuff. Love the credits by the way.

They are Backward enough without them drinking cider.

Those guys really know how to get a party started!

Excellent! What a delightful journey back in time.

Costal. The spaces between the ribs are called intercostal spaces.

Lovely

he likes his fair share of cider.

i bet that motly crew can some tails.

This guy has a good accent… just speaks with some class.

I made this scrumpy by even cruder methods in the White Cottage, Bloxham from the orchard there, using a length of telegraph pole to crush the apples in a tall blue water container. You don't wash the apples, as not needed, in fact there are natural yeasts on the skin you probably want in.

Charlie’s cider had. 😂😂😂. Wonderful film ❤

gosh... in the TV programme : River Cottage, back in 1999.... there was an episode about him and his cider. LEGEND

2 1/4 cwt is 114.4kg. Jeepers!!

Nobody actually knew that boy who was a wee bit too fond of testing the finished product 😂

Coir type matting also

Marvellous look at the old ways, let us pray they are kept going. The halcyon days of England ❤

They are smashed! That stuff is 14% ABV. It even gave Hugh a headache .

I am from Worcestershire. There are still lots of small producers here, using the same methods on display here.

This could well be Hampshire. At one point he says "in the Forest" as if it's a region, so possibly the New Forest, or the Forest of Dean if it's Monmouthshire. A couple of horses also make an appearance, so again that fits.

A stark testament to how Mankind’s “ progress “ is really regression and evil. I am half British. My Dad and his family are from the UK. We traveled over many times to witness the beauty and proper ways that traditional British people lived. Immigration is a curse. It has destroyed the UK and is destroying the United States. May God Almighty restore our Nations to their former glory. A glory in which God Himself allowed us. Islam is a Demonic plague that has infiltrated our Nations needs to be purged and removed from our Countries. They are blots and blemishes. Lost Souls who do not know the Truth. God help them as well.

One can't help but love a programme that was pretty much aimed at the childrens' hour where an old fella made alcohol and smoked tobacco! Jack Hargreaves is a legend!

At that stage it just apple juice, give it a few weeks to ferment then you can call it cider

This makes me thirsty 🍺

Thanks for posting a real charm. Quite painful to watch really how much we have gone in the wrong direction.

Gentle Jack Hargreaves. You taught me so much when I was little. I'm his age now?

So sad to lose this life style

What a fantastic old tradition. I like the way they insist on tasting a lot of different cider so as not to offend anyone!!!😂…….Also. I always thought you put sugar in cider. Am I wrong?

Good times Roger Wilkins cider Somerset good stuff proper job

Mr Roger Wilkins,,, THE BEST CIDER in SOMERSET!!

Do they make more than they drink on the day 😂

Had my first taste (and got pissed on it) at age 11. Denings of Higher Farm, Up Mudford, Near Yeovil, Somerset. Had their own mini Cider Factory on the farm. A Pitcher was always put out in the field when we were haymaking so that workers could help themselves. I would work there during school holidays and would be responsible for shovelling the apples into the slicer upstairs.

I have stayed with a cider farm's owners for the last 2 years in the New Forest. I first came across the husband in the late 1990's at Barleylands steam fayre. They get a local butcher to make sausages with their cider. Best I have tasted.

I wonder if this was filmed in East Boldre? If not, i wonder where?

River Cottage did an episode on these...and then a follow up.

In the late 1960's as a teenager worked for a old German farmer in up state New Jersey (U S A ) and at sunset we'd race to the barn for a glass 🤣

Just like a pressing day at Tardebigge Cider in Bromsgrove.

The Yeomanry march.

This was filmed in the New Forest so would be Hampshire and was the traditional way most country working people made their cider. It would have been filmed in the 60s. All of Jack Hargreaves programmes were interesting and informative. I have all the available programmes he made in the "Out Of Town" and "Old Country" series.

I guess the straw was/is used to hold all the slippery bits of apple together in one mass during pressing rather than them being squeezed out sideways? Would also provide channels for the juice to get to the edges. Similiar function to leaving the stems in with bunches in a grape press for wine

Jack Hargreaves, God bless him. I loved watching his programmes when I was a kid. He brought the countryside to the city for us.

This knowledge is absolutely priceless rip jack .

Old lads looked like there comatosed mine you I would be drinking the powerful cider

Makes me wonder how they kept their cider long term. Couldn't have just had a barrel they poured it off when needed, surely - the rest of the barrel would be off within a month or two....

Oh wow I’m not far from Shave Cross, it’s a small hamlet and I wonder which farm this is today hmmmmm

Did they wash the hessian sacks after the season was over?

I remember these so well, the whole family would sit down to watch Jack, great old days,,,,tv could learn so much from these.

seen cider making at country shows in France

Olde country man he went to private school with stables for his horses ...nonsense countryman. Snobby old git.

cor, right looks like some slipped somethin pretty heavy into the barrel there drinking there

Marvellous program , Jack Hargreaves was a voice of the ways to survive and feed the country . That cider would have been tasty , I travelled around the west of the country over the years from Poole to the Welsh borders and I helped out at a few cider presses if a hand was needed and I've tasted the best cider out of a wooden barrel and I've not tasted the like for a while . Great video 👍🇬🇧