Orchard Gate Ciderhttps://orchardgatecider.com/A hobby pressing log from a family orchard plot near Vilnius: old Baltic apple trees, a borrowed rack press, wild and cultured yeast, and one long weekend each autumn.enBottling for a gentle sparkle, and the spring two bottles went offhttps://orchardgatecider.com/journal/bottling-for-a-gentle-sparkle/https://orchardgatecider.com/journal/bottling-for-a-gentle-sparkle/Bottle-conditioning plot cider for a light fizz: gravity checks, priming, crown caps and swing tops, and what two burst bottles in a Vilnius cellar taught about patience.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTWild against cultured yeast: two carboys from one pressinghttps://orchardgatecider.com/journal/wild-against-cultured-yeast/https://orchardgatecider.com/journal/wild-against-cultured-yeast/One batch of plot juice split in two, one left to its own yeast and one given a cultured strain, then tasted side by side through a Lithuanian winter in a cold cellar.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe pressing weekend with the neighbours, hour by hourhttps://orchardgatecider.com/journal/pressing-weekend-with-the-neighbours/https://orchardgatecider.com/journal/pressing-weekend-with-the-neighbours/How one late-September weekend on a garden plot near Vilnius turns about two hundred kilos of apples into juice, with a borrowed rack press, six pairs of hands and a lot of wasps.Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMTThe old trees on the plot, and the two nobody can namehttps://orchardgatecider.com/journal/the-old-trees-on-the-plot/https://orchardgatecider.com/journal/the-old-trees-on-the-plot/Eleven cropping trees on a family plot north of Vilnius: what Antonovka, Lithuanian Pepin and Popierinis each give the juice, and how the unnamed ones earn their place.Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT