Barry M

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Maker of Kertelreiter cider & perry. Planter of orchards. Perry pear freak, wannabe pomologist, cider historian, ex-homebrewer. Editor & writer at Cider Review. Certified Pommelier. Irish in Germany. Owned by a border collie.

Five bottles of cider and perry from Kertelreiter. Kirchensaller 2025 Jeremias Runde 2025 Wild Plum 2025 Cherry Plum 2025 Harvest perry 2024
A bottle of Kertelreiter Jeremias Runde single tree Perry from 2025. The label has a watercolour ring with red and green tones, suggesting the colours of the pear
Four bottles of Perry and cider from Kertelreiter. Kirchensaller 2025 Cherry Plum 2025 Wild Plum 2025 harvest perry 2024.
A huge pear tree stands alone on the side of an escarpment.
Another view along the valley from a higher vantage point. The rows of trees on the left follow slight terraces on the valley side
A border collie staring intently at a pear in my hand as she approaches, about to have it as a snack
A clue delineation through the Orchard, on the right quite neatly moan while on the left is overgrown with brambles
Looking across the meadow towards an Orchard on the slope ahead
The grassy truck leading through a shallow Valley that is mostly meadow. Groups of trees stand on the left right and head.
An alder Tree
A property paved cycle track with meadows on each side. In the background, I can see where it becomes lined with trees. The river Schefflenz flows off the left, paralleling the track.
A carpet of small yellow pears covers the ground under a tree
The cycle path home, lit by the light on my bike. Grass each side.
A view of the birthday party from the mobile bar.
A handled glass of beer.
A list of trees at this overflow area, with scrawls for what needs updating.
Dark grey clouds above a green patch with small trees.
A border collie paddling in a fountain.
A border collie swimming in a river
A bottle of Markenhof Poiré Sec 2022.
A bottle of Markenhof Cidre Brut 2022
The orange handwritten label on a Knapper pear tree.
A printed list of fruit trees in the nursery, with codes to indicated their old and new positions, what variety, what rootstock and when I grafted them.
Border collie snuffles under an apple tree. Very pale green apples lie on the floor.
A tree binding hand machine, makes it quick to secure trees to posts.
A rain radar map showing a blob of rain near Heilbronn, and it is heading towards a pin mark where we are.
Masses of small round pears on a high branch of a perry pear tree. I think it is Welsche Bratbirne.
A gravel track running through a wooded area with a border collie ahead. The tree on the far right, with a little lean, is a young apple tree.
Spear shaped leaves and an orange label showing this is a Gelbe Wadelbirne tree.
A dirty orange label on a young pear tree. It reads Coppy F87 2022
Two small russeted pears in the palm of my hand.
Rows of young pear trees in a nursery, each with an orange name tag
A young pear tree and a 1000litre container of water, now half full
Part of a cider label, bottle 42 of 60, and I’ve written “don’t panic” beside it.
A border collie about to eat a small apple.
An IBC container filled with 1000L water, and a watering can. Behind them rows of tree on a rather brown looking meadow.
A bottle of Jever Fun no alcohol beer. Well it’s less than 0.5%.
Two watering cans at the side of a stream that has been backed by a beaver dam.
The nursery looking much tidier, the border boards on one side visible again and the grass outside the nursery area neatly mown.
What my watch says I’ve burned today. Calories Burned Today 2.495 Total 1.459 Active 1.036 Resting
The nursery right now, the trees cleared of bindweed and most of the weeds between the rows removed. The rows of mulch are now visible.
Piles of vegetation at the depot, and my two axle trailer.
Back to the nursery, which has been overcome by bindweed. A patch has been cleared, and a pile of hand pulled weeds lies beside the nursery plot.
Frank with a glass of amber beer in his hand.
My friend Frank crouched close to the ground, where there’s a huge crack in the earth, due to the dry conditions.
A bottle of beer in my hand, beside me stands my blue bike, in the background the scrubby strip that I will plant trees on later this year
A row of fruit trees, guessing about 20 years old.
A small part of the nursery cleared of bindweed, and a large pile on the grass beside it.
A heavily overgrown fruit tree nursery. Smaller trees overwhelmed by bindweed
Three hairs wander around a meadow between two fields of corn.
Walking down a country road approaching a fox. When the dog’s lead clicked, it heard us and darts into a field of corn.
A bottle of Kertelreiter Cherry plum cider 2025. The label features watercolour blobs that look just like cherry plums!
Another pear tree, this one beside a gravelled country lane. A border collie walks ahead along the track.
A pear tree hanging full with young pears. A hunter’s hide stands under it.
Looking up at an overhanging branch that is lined with small reddish apples. A few of them have shrivelled and turned brown, while others have holes in them from birds pecking at them.
The view from the middle of a large field that once had some sort of grain crop on it, in the mid-distance a couple of trees marking where a dry stream bed runs. A border collie ahead of me.
A hare nonchalantly approaching us on a county road.
Another part of the long strip mentioned in the previous post, 10 m wide, but here is stubble, the remains of wheat that were sown in the compensation area
Rather Brown looking strip of meadow, flanked on the left with some apple and plum trees and on the right a field of stubble following wheat harvest.
Part of a cider label. The text reads cherry plum, apple and cherry plum cider, 2025. The artwork features seven blobs of reddish colour that reminds one of cherry plums.