Season 1 Finale (Robby Honda from Tanuki Cider, Surprise Guests)

Grab your bags, double check you have everything from your room,
and head to reception, as Gabe Cook, Grant Hutchison and Martyn
Goodwin-Sharman check out of the Neutral Cider Hotel.


As Season One of the show draws to a close, the guys discuss how
it started, who takes the blame for the show, and their favourite
moments. Certain things pop up so keep an ear out for some
surprises! Martyn finally gets his arms on a bottle of Wilding or
Wildling (it’s too late to check which ones which now), Gabe
can’t leave out any references to tackle and bait headphones, and
grant cuts the unaired bedroom-session episode to ribbons, like a
badminton net with a tomato knife.


Then it's onto the final interview of the season -- Robby Honda
from Tanuki Cider! The guys chat everything: from Robby’s
interest in starting a cider company with his brother even though
he had no skills to offer, how his family and their history with
apple orchards inspired him to start a cider business, his DIY
ethic and approach to Tanuki to dry farming in a place where
water is scarce, the lore of the Tanuki and the challenges of
growing apples in a geography that encounters heat waves,
droughts and dry lightning. Robby also turns the tables and asks
Grant about drinking and playing drums which leads to a lovely
discussion of how cider brings us all together.


While chatting with Robby, the guys crack two Tanuki cider
bottles; Wild Fermented Gravenstein and, you guessed it, Newton
Pippin! Both wonderfully different, equally interesting and
downright unexpected in one way, the guys loved cracking some
specifically imported stuff for the episode, so thanks again to
the guys of Tanuki for shipping over the good stuff!


Then it's onto the speakpipes, and you guys honked the pipe for
the last show! Featuring new voices and previous guests, you’d be
safe to guess that some foxwhelp content will be


THE TEAM
Gabe is a cider expert: The Ciderologist / Substack
Grant owns a cider shop: Aeble Cider Shop
Martyn loves to write about cider: CiderShit

Executive Producer/Editor: Scott Riggs
Music: Billy Kennedy

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