My heart bleeds for you. I have a mature orchard of a dozen trees and have taken seven - count ‘em - seven apples this season; late frost killed the blossoms. It was my sincere desire to brew hard cider this year but, alas, it was not to be.
Oh well, there’s always next year.
Best year I ever had was completely ad-hoc and unexpected. Cactus pears and native green plums up in the mountains in New Mexico. I brewed about 30 gallons from the land that year.
If it has sugar, it ferments.
/johnny
Seems like I am always saying that about my garden every year for some crop or anther!