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"What if you turned an autumn glut into something you could toast with?"
There is something almost magic about pressing a heap of Armagh or Tipperary apples in October and pulling a finished drink from your shelf come February. You learn patience, a bit of basic chemistry, and the quiet satisfaction of giving something away that you genuinely made yourself. Every batch tastes slightly different, which keeps it interesting rather than formulaic. And when you crack one open with friends and they actually like it, that feeling is hard to beat with anything you could just buy off a shelf.
Eoin (23), Mullingar — works in a tile warehouse, keeps a small allotment behind his parents' house
My uncle had three apple trees going absolutely mental in his garden outside Moate last October, and he was giving bags of them away to anyone who'd take them.
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