Acclaimed Cornish brewery Sharp’s of Rock near Padstow has teamed up with Cornish Orchards to produce a cider for the UK market.
Orchard Cider is made from 100% local cider apples and is being trialled in selected outlets in Cornwall and Devon.
Joe Keohane, of Sharp’s, said: “Our introduction to Cornish Orchards was the Eden Project. We are incredibly proud of the cider produced as a result of this partnership.” Orchard Cider is the only draft cider available at local tourist attraction the Eden Project.
Sharp’s said there are plans to extend the distribution of Orchard Cider next year.
Another brewery, Bath’s Abbey Ales has launched Hell’s Bells, produced by the Tricky Cider Company, situated in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset.
Abbey Ales managing director Alan Morgan said of his company’s new product: “We will be offering it to our existing customers initially, and in our own pubs, the Star, the Coeur De Lion and The Assembly Inn.” Distribution will be extended later in the year.
This is a light cider ( 5.5% ?) with some good somerset cider apple flavour, but a hint of toffee I thought, although the label indicated a pure fresh pressed apple juice product. Found in a farm shop in Fife, Scotland.
This bottled cider in the eastern counties style was of excellent quality and interest. I think the cider comes from Seddlescombe Vineyard and is labeled simply as “Organic Dry Cider” made by Organic County Drinks Ltd. Using only real, fresh organic English apples, mostly from Kent and Sussex. With wild natural yeasts and judicious use of oak.
Drinks? Anyone…
Originally uploaded by Saurabh_Makkar
Evidence from a bottle shop in Himachal Pradesh found on Flickr. One brand is Tempest Cider, the other might be HPMC.
The things food and drink writers say…
Around Britain with a fork | Experts | Life and Health
Oliver isn’t a scientific blender, he says. “I just use my nose and palate, and I try to end up with something that I know is going to work. I don’t try to produce something that’s going to take someones head off.”
And, sure enough, my head isn’t blown off by a glass of his Three Counties medium-dry perry, but I am blown away by it, by its quiet, off-dry elegance, the suavity of its fruit, as debonair as a Savile Row suit, with a long, long finish.
Perry is a wonderful drink which should be celebrated much more than at present, and Olivers is exemplary of the craft genre. Too much perry in one session however, should be avoided not because of the danger of getting your head blown off exactly, but for reasons which involve other bodily systems such as the digestive and perambulatory parts.
Harechurch Hill
Originally uploaded by ukcider
This is an exceptionally good bottled cider, which I first tried in the Dartmouth Arms in North London.
Kate O’Farrell of Common Ground told me about their new book, ‘The Apple Source Book Particular uses for diverse apples”
There are lots of recipes but also information and advice on orchards, produce including cider, contacts etc. The Apple Source Book
is available from Amazon at £10.19 and from the Apples and Orchards category page at the ukcider bookshop
The Apple Source Book
by Sue Clifford and Angela King with Philippa Davenport
for Common Ground
Hodder & Stoughton, October 2007 304 pages b&w illustrations
a philosophical and practical guide to
growing apples communally or for yourself
eating them simply or in style
whilst enriching both our culinary and cultural landscapes.
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Common Ground,
Gold Hill House, 21 High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JE UK
+44(0)1747 850820
www.england-in-particular.info – local distinctiveness
www.commonground.org.uk – archive, arts and Apple Day
www.corrugated-iron-club.info – world wide sheds
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