Phew! Mid Devon Show was a scorcher...

Due to a clerical error, we didn't get our alcohol license in time for the big local show. What in most circumstances would be a monumental cock-up. And indeed it was on this occasion also.

But we needed to turn adversity into opportunity. So I dug out an old recipe for lemonade which I'd been intending to add to our range of products - having made some of the best single variety apple juice I've ever tried last year confidence was high.

So off to the local fruit merchant I went to source a few cases of his finest lemons. The trial batch lasted all of 3 minutes, which bearing in mind there were three of us working and the trial batch was 2 litres certainly augered well.

Making traditional lemonade is a labour of love. And when Raymond looked at a pile of over 300 lemons which needed finely zesting, we knew it was going to be a big job.

But sure enough the lemons got peeled, then pressed - the sugar and water added and we had a batch to bottle!

The people at the mid-devon show obviously enjoyed it as much as we did, as all 200 bottles sold out an hour after lunch.

I guess Ray better get used to peeling lemons...

Hot fizz...

Stop press, we're going crazy in the sun with our Devon Red Cider. Devon Red cattle are famously easy going and good natured animals, who like nothing better than chewing the cud in the beautiful English countryside.

We have named our new cider in honour of the most agreeable breed of cattle, who also just so happen to be probably the tastiest beef animals on the planet.

You see? Tasty, agreeable, and Devon to the core.