Join us on a tractor tour of our beautiful orchard in bloom, for our 8th Annual Apple Blossom Walk. As always, our event was in aid of Drogheda Homeless Aid & SOSAD Ireland. You can make a donation via our special GoFundMe page: https://gofund.me/02215c7c.

Thanks to everyone who donated, took part and watched the live stream of our 8th Annual Apple Blossom Walk. We look forward to having the event in person in 2022!

Click on the video above to join Olan on the tractor tour.

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For the second year in a row, our annual Q&A took place virtually from our orchard in full bloom. As always, our event was in aid of Drogheda Homeless Aid & SOSAD Ireland. You can make a donation via our special GoFundMe page: https://gofund.me/02215c7c. Olan was provided with many wonderful questions by yourselves watching from home about our orchard, ciders, bees and more!

Thanks to everyone who donated, took part and watched the live stream of our 8th Annual Apple Blossom Walk. We look forward to having the event in person in 2022!

Click on the video above to watch the Q&A session.

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Ingredients

400g pork belly
40g Maris Piper potatoes
20g parsnips
80ml demi-glace (for sauce)
40mls Dan Kelly’s Cider
2 x baby carrots
pork crackling
pea shoots

Method

1   Slowly cook pork belly in your oven for 3 hours at 160°C.
2   Peel, boil and mash your potatoes and parsnips together. Add some butter, cream and seasoning to taste.
3   Blanch and refresh your baby carrots.
4   Pour your Dan Kelly’s Cider into a saucepan, bring to the boil and reduce by half. Add your demi-glace and simmer.
5   Remove crackling from your pork belly. Portion your pork belly and return it to your oven to reheat.
6   Deep fry your pork crackling for 30 seconds and then remove from the oil. Reheat the baby carrots.
7   Pipe your potato and parsnip mash onto a warmed plate. Place your pork belly on top and your crackling on top of that. Carrots to be added to the side.
8   Finish with your Dan Kelly’s Cider sauce and pea shoots to garnish.

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Every week a bunch of craft beer and cider bloggers, beer lovers, other craft beer/cider brands and lots of people in between take part in #irishbeerchat – a weekly ‘Twitter chat’ hosted by our friends at Wicklow Wolf along with bloggers (and also friends) Irish Beer Snob and Simon Says Beer. Recently they’ve been having guest hosts on these chats, so when the opportunity arose for us to host, we jumped at the chance. Here’s how it went…

@son0vagun@WWolfBrewery@simonsaysbeer@irishbeersnob If only I knew! We’re just trying our best year on year #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@BeoirFinder @WWolfBrewery @simonsaysbeer @irishbeersnob We have different varieties for different uses, but my personal favourite is dabinette which is the base of our regular cider #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@Nigeltails Don’t you know it Nigel… don’t you know it! #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@Guilley1985 @BeoirFinder @WWolfBrewery @simonsaysbeer @irishbeersnob @AlltechBrews Thanks Dave – that was made from the Katya variety. It’s available on many shelves now #irishbeerchat pic.twitter.com/EdQJjFV1FK

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@BeoirFinder @WWolfBrewery @simonsaysbeer @irishbeersnob We think there’s a limited market for the really dry ciders & some form of back sweetening makes the cider more palatable #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@MrsBeerSnob It was great Janice – missed you there! Raised a healthy sum for @DrogHomelessAid & @SosadIreland Orchards looked pretty too #irishbeerchat pic.twitter.com/TebDfy68Od

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@craftbeersoflre Our quickest cider was harvested last Aug & bottled in Nov,but normally our ciders are aged for 1 year before they’re bottled #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@thebeernut I do, but I think it’s small. We tried one with a very low carbonation & people enjoyed it #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@irishbeersnob It’s primarily a domestic market but we have exported small amounts to other countries #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@finnegan339 It’s a long story, Mark, but we’ve always wanted to try a barrel-aged cider & when the opportunity arose we went for it #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@colmhanratty We debuted a new draught brew called Coll’s Craft @AlltechBrews Look forward to bringing it to other events in the future #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@irishcraftcaps It’s in the pipeline Liam! When the apple is ripe… #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@colmandeely @WWolfBrewery @simonsaysbeer @irishbeersnob Typically we bottle in 2000L batches. We make trial batches as small as 500l. Have to make sure the product is right! #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@son0vagun It’s been known to happen – the orchard is a biiiig place… #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

@irishcraftcaps Good news Liam – we’re working with @KinnegarBrewing on another version of Olan’s Tart #irishbeerchat

— Dan Kelly’s Cider (@DanKellysCider) May 15, 2017

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