Armstrong, an Air Force veteran who studied distillation through University of Kentucky, annually crushes about 200 thousand-pound-bins-worth of apples, adding yeast to create a hard apple cider ...

About 4,000 tonnes of fresh fruit passes through the factory a year. "Mangoes are the biggest part of our range," Ms Dean said. "But we also dry pineapples [and] we do apples, pears, strawberries ...