Apple glut? We can turn your apples – any variety, dessert or cooker – into delicious bottles of your own unique juice within hours.

We require a minimum of 100kg, or about 4 to 5 feed-sacks worth. As a rough guide, one hundred kilos of fruit usually yields around eighty bottles of juice.

Not enough apples?

You could always ask your friends and neighbours if they have any spare, or arrange a community pressing. Alternatively, we sometimes have surplus apples from our own (unsprayed) traditional orchard that can be blended with yours to reach the minimum quantity.

Your job:

About a month or so before picking, contact us to arrange a delivery time to our orchard in Dolton, North Devon. You can check your apples are ripe by cutting open a few sample apples: the pips should be brown.

Just before our agreed date for pressing collect your good quality, clean, ripe apples (or pears) – no dirty, rotting or badly bruised fruit – and put it into clean bags or boxes. Windfalls can be juiced provided they are in good condition. 

What we do:

Within a day or two of delivery we mill and press your apples (and ONLY your apples – we don’t mix up batches from different customers). Immediately after pressing we add a tiny amount of Vitamin C to prevent browning (if you’re not sure about the Vitamin C, click here for an explanation, and then let us know if you’d rather not have it added). We then pasteurise your juice in 750ml clear glass bottles, preserving your freshly pressed apple juice for at least two years.

We will contact you when your juice is ready to be collected.

Cost?

As of August 2025, £2 per 750ml bottle (clear glass with plastic screw-top lid).

Or, £1.35 per unit if you supply your own clean 750ml screw-top bottles and lids. If you would like us to fit new screw-top lids please ensure that the old lid’s tamper-proof ring has been removed from each bottle.

Please note, wine bottles with screw-top lids, or sizes other than 750ml, won’t work with our bottling and pasteurising equipment. 

You can re-use your bottles multiple times if you wash them out straight after use, store with the cap on, then sterilise and rinse just before bringing them to us. Dirty bottles may compromise the pasteurising process, so please ensure returned bottles are clean!

If you want to freeze your juice, or make it into cider, we can press your apples for £1 per litre. Bring your own lidded containers (for example 25 litre fermentation buckets, or 10 litre demijohns).