real cider and perry
List of ciders and perries that will be available at the 35th Cambridge Beer Festival which takes place next week at Jesus Green, Cambridge.
The festival opens Monday 19th of May 5.00pm to 10.30pm, Tuesday 20th
– Friday 23rd of May 11.00am to 3.00pm and 5.00pm to 10.30pm and
Saturday 24th of May 11.00am to 10.30pm.
More details and events at cider festivals
Anyone living in the North with nowt to do next weekend (May 16th and 17th 2008) could do a lot worse than pay a visit to the Barrow Hill Roundhouse Beer and Cider “Rail Ale” Festival. It’s held in the old locomotive roundhouse and you can sup some good ciders & perries while watching the steam locos or marvelling at the huge old Deltics. Anoraks are not obligatory
Free buses run from Chesterfield BR station. Saturday afternoon is quiet, no bands, more trains…
Cider list from Ray Blockley
1 Broadoak, Moonshine (Somerset) - medium
2 Burrow Hill (Somerset) - dry
3 Crossmans (Somerset) - medium
4 Parsons Choice (Somerset) - dry
5 Rich’s (Somerset) - sweet
6 Green Valley Cyder, Vintage Farmhouse (Devon) - medium
7 Hunts (Devon) - sweet
8 Hartland (Gloucestershire) - medium
9 Prinknash Abbey (Gloucestershire) - medium
10 New Forest, Farmhouse Scrumpy (Hampshire) - dry
11 Gwatkin, Norman (Herefordshire) - medium
12 Newton Court (Herefordshire) - dry
13 Double Vision (Kent) - medium
14 Gywnt y Draig, Haymaker (Glamorgan) - medium
15 Three Cats (Derbyshire) - medium
16 Torkard 57 (Hucknall, Nottinghamshire) - medium-dry
17 Gwatkin, Oldfield (Herefordshire) - medium
18 Gwynt y Draig, Two Trees (Glamorgan) - medium
19 Ralphs (Powys) - dry
20 Hartland (Gloucestershire)
21 Olivers (Herefordshire)
Thanks to James Dalton for publishing the
Bushels Medium Cider Biddenden Kent 6.0%
Medium Cider Bollhayes Devon 7.0%
Sweet Cider Chucklehead Somerset 7.0%
Medium Cider Chucklehead Somerset 7.0%
Sweet Cider Hunts Devon 6.0%
Sweet Cider Newtons 7.0%
Perry Holders 6.0% - 7.5%
Perry Olivers Herefordshire 7.3%
Perry Ross on Wye Herefordshire 6.5%
And Ray Blockley for the
Bridge Farm Medium - (Somerset) - 6.5%
Burrow Hill Medium Dry - (Somerset) - 6.4%
Gwynt-y-Draig Black Dragon - (Wales) - 8.2%
Hucknall Cider Co Torkard 57 Dry - (Notts) - 6.5%
Perry Bros Medium - (Somerset) - 6%
Rich’s Legbender - (Somerset) - 6%
Woodthorpe Hall Owd Barker - (Derbyshire) - 9%
Newton’s Perry - (Hereford) - 7%
Oliver’s Oak Aged Perry - (Hereford) - 7.3%
Ross-on-Wye Perry - (Wales) - 6.5%
For further details of cider festivals and events see the ukcider Current Events page
Found via Aleksu
Cider Season opened in the Basque Country - eitb24.com
In the next three months, hundreds of people will flock to the cider houses to drink this year’s cider and taste the traditional menu.Cider houses are usually caserios - or country houses- mostly located in Gipuzkoa, which have facilities for the preparation and bottling of cider, and a space for the “kupelas” (barrels) and long tables where patrons can taste the specialities (cod omelette, fried cod with green peppers, and barbecued steak).
The season begins in January and finishes mid-April. During these months, it has become a tradition for the Basque people to come to these cider temples to practice the “txotx” ritual, which is extremely beautiful and peculiar: the owner of the cider house chooses a kupela (barrel) and he yells out “txotx”, thus inviting all those attending to taste the cider. Consumption of cider is unlimited.
Recently added to the ukcider wiki Events page , exciting news that the first International Craft Cider Festival organised by the WPCS has now been booked to take place on the dates of 4th - 6th July 2008 at Abergavenny Castle, South Wales. Here’s where I think the venue will be:
photo by Bahi p
A crucial date for the diary for all cider enthusiasts and producers from all over Wales, England, Spain, France and Canada etc.
See you there next summer for the first ever, and at all subsequent International cider festivals as this event grows and grows.
UPDATE:
The First International Cider Festival organised by the Welsh Perry and Cider Society has been cancelled this this year but they hope to put it on in 2009 now.
From the Facebook Group
Attempt to collate information about the most amazing cider tasting opportunity in the westcountry. Pubs around Bristol take turns to host a bloke and his entourage of 18 or more ciders. £2 a pint. Can you try them all?
14th October, The Apple, Welshback. 13:00-18:30
28th October, The Orchard, Spike Island. 12:00-18:00
See also October Events on the cider Wiki
Thanks to Martin of HarrodHorticultural for commenting with his article about Apple Day from last year, the original being here
There are a huge number of events this year, because apple day just keeps on growing and the cider wiki current events page for October points to the common ground apple day page where you can see them all listed county by county.
Now there’s also a shorter list of Apple Day events which include cider in some form, and which local event organisers can easily add to just by editing the wiki as normal. It’s not late to think about putting on a small apple day event even now. If you have a common orchard nearby you could just invite the neighbourhood round to admire the fallen fruit, learn a bit about apple varieties and then go for a meal afterwards with some cider or perry. Or make it a childrens party day with apple juice and a drop of real cider for the grown ups.
Myself, I’ll be making my way to Walthamstow Apple Day on October 13th and I do hope you manage to find an event near enough to wherever you live as well and support it on the day. If you do know of any events in October loosely connected with apple day and incorporating cider in some form then please add them to the Apple Day page.
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