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Archive for May, 2007
Three Counties Cider and Perry Association - 30th April 2007
3CCPA Committee Proposal
The committee of the 3CCPA met on Monday 23rd April 2007 to discuss
the issue and consider a formal response to the NACM and formulate a
consensus lobbying position. As a result of the discussions held it
is proposed that - if there is a plan by the EU to remove the current
exemption - a sliding duty scale is put into place instead, with the
first 70 hI (Ca. 1500 gals) converted into a special band of zero
rate cider duty available to all cider makers. Thereafter, as an
encouragement to small rural-based businesses to grow and develop,
increasing levels of duty would be paid on increasing volumes up to
an upper limit of 700hl (Ca. 15,000 gals), after which the full level of
duty would be payable,
In principle, this would be similar to the sliding scale of duty
available to beer brewers currently operating in the UK and other
European Member States and would provide a real encouragement to
rural business, farm diversification and artisan and craft cider makers.
Richard Fairhust came up with a way to get the Cider Pub Guide extracted from off the ukcider wiki, and into a format which can be read into an iPod. Now I thought iPods were for just for listening to music, but fundamentally it’s just a portable data storage device and if it has a screen then you can read, scroll and navigate your way around any textual documents.
I’ve compiled an iPod version of the wiki Cider Pub Guide. This means you can have the full 880-pub listing in a handy format to take around with you.
The guide is stored as ‘Notes’ pages on the iPod, organised by county (just like on the website) for easy access.
Details and download here:
http://ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Cider_Pub_Guide_on _iPod Richard Fairhurst
This is a great service Richard, because when you’re out and about it isn’t always convenient to be forsightful enough to have printed off the right pages for whichever area you might end up visiting. I suppose a final development would be to have it automatically synched onto your portable device, whether it’s an mp3 player, phone or PDA and then be able to report any updates from the remote location back onto the website on the fly, but the iPod is a neat solution because you don’t have to pay any call charges to look it up.
May 12th is the date for the Blossomtime celebration at Winterborne Houghton, near Blandford, Dorset. It’s a small village event, but ukcider members and cider producers will be converging at the Cider by Rosie orchard for something of an internet meetup and cider tasting. Last year’s was great - here is a link to the photographs and description on the wiki. I’m really looking forward to meeting some old and new faces again this time.
CAMRA announce the winners:
The National Champions 2007 are:
Cider: West Croft Janet’s Jungle Juice, Somerset
Perry: Hartlands, GloucestershireThe Harris family of Brent Knoll in Somerset have been producing cider since 1994 and source their fruit locally. In 1997 the Harris’ planted an orchard which is maintained free from chemicals and it is the fruit from this orchard which is included in this award winning blend of Janet’s Jungle Juice.
On being told that his Janet’s Jungle Juice Cider had won Gold, John Harris of West Croft Cider said: “I’m very pleased to have the quality and skills which go into our cider recognised nationally. I last won Gold in 1996 and am delighted to win again.”
Hartland’s of Tirley in Gloucestershire is a family run business which has been passed along three generations and previously won the National Gold Champion Perry Award in 2003. Dereck Hartland is renowned and admired by his fellow producers for his sensible timeless approach to producing consistently high quality products from local fruit.
Dereck Hartland was also overjoyed on being told that his perry had won Gold, saying “It is brilliant news to win such a prestigious award, especially when you consider the standards of the other competitors. I’d like to thank my family for their help and support”.
Another blogger has managed to find Barry’s home cider farm..
New Forest Mini-break - Day #2 - Burley and Cider
..then up the road towards the busy little scrumpy cider farm (woo hoo!), found out they do borough market once a week too(!) -
- where I scored a small bottle of “medium” (very nice indeed) -
Linda Hartley writes:
I just happend across an interesting programme about orchards this morning on Radio 4 and thought others might enjoy it too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
This link takes you to the page where you can listen to the programme and also read quite an interesting article.
Traditional orchards differ from densely planted commercial orchards as they contain older, taller fruit trees, the grass pasture around them is usually grazed by cattle or sheep, the trees are more widely spaced and the orchards are not treated with chemicals or pesticides.
The loss of old orchards has been due to a demand for cheaper fruit imports and the land being used for housing development.
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