You were probably expecting to see something else....
Don’t tell me, let me guess. You’ve just scanned a QR code on a bottle of our excellent cider, and are sitting back waiting for a multimedia explosion detailing the unique story of that individual cider. But now this… Here’s what happened…
So, prior to August 2025, we did have individual pages linking to the QR codes on most of our ciders, and they all worked fine. However, in August 2025 our site was pretty much destroyed by a marauding horde of malware-injecting bots from various axis-of-evil states. It only took us 2 months to realise this…. In a fit of over-zealous pique to remove the infestation from the site, all the content got deleted and, yes, there was no backup system in place. So it was gone-for-ever gone.
But now the website has been rebuilt from the ground up. It now has an all-singing firewall which is only marginally less expensive than a ballistic missile defence system. We have excluded access from most known rogue states. Backups are being taken every two or three nanoseconds. It has two factor authentication (whatever that is), meaning I have to prove my identity, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to myself before I can add so much as a comma… But those pages are gone forever.
So apologies for all those misleading QR codes which are still at large in the world, luring internet surfers onto the rocks of disappointment.
Here are some photos to cheer you up a bit:
