Highlight Reel:
These are some of our favorite pictures from the farm over the years. They cover all seasons and a variety of major milestones and events. Hopefully these can give you a general feel for the farm and be enough of a tease to get you to check out our other photo albums! Links to the other albums are located below this gallery.
[Please click on each photo for a larger version]
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- Michael Miller washes apples before pressing them to separate the juice from the apples.
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- Apples are “sweat,” a crucial part of the ripening process.
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- The orchard is pink with blooms that will eventually turn into apples.
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- Pleepleus, from the popular television show “Drinking Made Easy,” says hello by the Burkittsville welcome sign.
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- A wooden representation of the DLC cider house that is on display in the tasting room.
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- A crane lifts the press into the partially-constructed cider house.
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- DLC’s Cidermaker, Tim Rose, demonstrates how cider is fermented.
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- The sign welcoming visitors to Distillery Lane Ciderworks.
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- Recycled tractor parts and the elevator from the silo form DLC’s own Loch Ness monster. (Can you spot Pleepleus in the picture?)
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- Welders (with an assist from Michael Miller) weld the front gate for the main house.
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- Some of the apple trees covered in a layer of ice on a very cold winter morning.
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- Members of the Miller family throw up their arms in celebration as the ribbon is cut—officially opening Distillery Lane Ciderworks for business.
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- One of our largest apples to-date (photographed next to a penny for some size perspective).
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- The orchard in early summer.
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- Owner and orchardist Rob Miller shows a large group around the orchard.
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- People picking fresh apples in the orchard.
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- Layers of ground-up apples are pressed to separate the juice from the apples.
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- DLC’s Cidermaker, Tim Rose, pours hard cider to allow visitors to sample it.
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- Welders construct DLC’s Loch Ness monster.
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- Walle, the Millers’ house-cat, sneaks outside and tries to figure out why there is so much excitement about snow.
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- Tim Rose, DLC’s Cidermaker, explains some of the basics of cider-making to farm visitors.
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- The orchard following a winter snowstorm.
Links to other photo galleries:
– Tree Damage from the Storm on June 28, 2012