Cider Pub Guide to Cambridgeshire

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The guide to pubs selling cider in Cambridgeshire.
28 entries

1 Cambridge
- 1.1 Off-licences and other outlets
2 Castor
3 Coates
4 Holme
5 March
6 Market Deeping
7 Milton
8 Newton
9 Peterborough
10 Reach
11 Stilton
12 Stow-cum-Quy
13 Stretham
14 Others

Cambridge

The Cambridge Blue 87 Gwydir St

Smoke and mobile free, they had Aspalls on tap, which for some reason tasted very yummy, and when we asked further they told us that when it gets warmer they stock Cassels, but it's a strong one so you need to sit in the sun and slowly sip it. Good advice I think. The food there looked very good also.

The Carlton Arms, Carlton Way, Arbury, Cambridge CB4 2BY (pub website)

Crones' User-Friendly.

The Castle Inn, 38 Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0RG (01223 353194)

Clean, light pub serving Aspalls cider. Food includes burgers, steaks etc. Note that this is the Castle on Castle Hill (north of the city centre), not the one on Regent Street.

The Live and Let Live 40 Mawson Road

Usually has a Cassels cider on tap, and interestingly the barman told me that recently they had been carrying some special single varieties that Cassels has been trying out. They also has a fizzy Stowford Press and this was good enough for us before we headed back to the station

The Mill 14 Mill Lane

Serves Westons Old Rosie and has done for a good few years (at least since 1993!).

The Empress, 72 Thoday Street (off Mill Road), Cambridge CB1 3AX (Tel: 01223 247236)

Serves Westons Old Rosie.

The Red Bull, 11 Barton Road, Newnham, Cambridge CB3 9JZ (Tel: 01223 300943)

Weston's Old Rosie (and Stowford Press). Welcoming, spacious pub a few minutes' walk from central Cambridge (not far from the route out to Grantchester Meadows). Food.

University Sports and Social Club, Mill Lane.

Aspall's on tap for uni staff and students. [1]

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Off-licences and other outlets

The Cambridge Cheese Company All Saints Passage

In addition to selling some great cheese, they also stock a range of organic cider.

Cambridge Wine Merchants

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A small chain of off licenses that sells bottles of Sheppys and Thatchers Single Variety Ciders, and a few Breton and Normandy ciders. I was told by the proprietor that they occasionally stock the local Cassell's cider, but that not enough is produced to sell regularly.

Bacchanalia, Mill Road (Tel: 01223 315034)

We also found an very interesting independent off license on Mill Road called Bacchanalia. (There's a second branch on Victoria Road.) They sell bottles of local cider and Breton/Normandy ciders. But most interesting is that they sell local Cassels Cider straight from the barrel into 2 or 4 pint containers. We bought a bottle of the only local cider they had on what we were told was a very depleted shelf: Watergull Orchards Dry cider, which tastes like it was brewed from Cox apples to my very untrained tastebuds , with a very acidic, but not unpleasant taste which seems to suit being chilled.

Rainbow Cafe, 9a Kings Parade (website)

Famous vegetarian cafe. Bottles of ORGANIC DUNKERTON CIDER available. Good meals, their tajine was very nice.

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Castor

Prince of Wales Feathers, 38 Peterborough Road, PE5 7AL (01733 380222)

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Up to two guest ciders, Thatchers and Westons on 27/12/06

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Coates

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1 North Green, Coates PE7 2BQ (01733 840565) Various ciders, usually Thatcers, Westons & Burrow Hill.

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Holme

Admiral Wells, 41 Station Road, Holme, Cambridgeshire PE7 3PH Phone: 01487 831214

A real cider normally available. Westons Old Rosie on handpump (15/12/06)

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March

Oliver Cromwell Hotel, High Street, PE15 9LH (01354 602890)

Rather nondescript modern hotel bar, which offers a good range of real ales from smaller breweries, and up to three ciders (though this may include Saxon products). Westons Old Rosie and a Saxon 'cider' on 26/03/07

Rose and Crown 41 St. Peter's Road, March, Cambridgeshire PE15 9NA. Tel:01354 656705.email the-roseandcrown@hotmail.com

A free house serving a good selection of real ales,spirits, wines and draught largers. No TV, juke box. Sandwiches behind bar available..also offering two double B&B rooms at £40 per room per night, the cost includes breakfast. Has the benefit of two bars..the small bar is a no smoking bar. Has a Large car park and beer garden. Guest ciders/perry (more information required please).

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Market Deeping

Rainbow (Co-op) Stores, Godsey Lane, PE6 8HT

In addition to the usual Tillington Hills Cider there is a small section of local Anglian produce which includes bottles of Aspalls, and perhaps more interestingly Norfolk Cider Company's Diabetically Dry Cider (7.5%).

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Milton

The Waggon and Horses (yes, it has 2 GGs in it) 39 High Street, Milton

Cassels on tap, and usually make a cider or two from their own apples for the Beer Festival. "Drunken Horse" uses honey to sweeten the cider, and "One Tree"... well, you can guess. Theirs are hobby ciders rather than particularly commercial ones, variable and improving year by year.

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Newton

Queens Head, Fowlmere Rd, Newton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 5PG

Cassels and Crones on tap

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Peterborough

Brewery Tap, 80 Westgate, Peterborough, PE1 2AA (01733 358500)

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Brewery tap for the award winning Oakham Ales brewery. Thai food, regular live music, and a guest cider from Westons on handpump (Old Rosie on 15/05/08).

Charters Bar, Town Bridge, PE1 1FP (Tel/Fax: 01733 315700)

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Dutch barge moored just off the town centre at Town Bridge. Renowned outlet for Oakham Ales and numerous guest beers, plus a guest cider from Westons on handpump (Old Rosie on 15/05/08). Upper deck is the 'East' Oriental Restaurant & Bar.

The College Arms, 40 The Broadway, PE1 1RS (01733 319745)

City centre Wetherspoon with Westons Organic Vintage on handpump. (24/11/06)

The Draper's Arms, 29–31 Cowgate, PE1 1LZ (01733 847570)

One of the Wetherspoon chain's better pubs. A pleasnt city-centre bar, with Westons Old Rosie and Organic Vintage from bag-in-box in the fridge. Some bottled ciders and perry too.

The Palmerston Arms Oundle Road, Woodston, Peterborough PE29PA +44(0)1733 565865

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A small street-corner local dating back 400 years or so. Dispenses up to 12 ales direct from the cask, real cider (Broadoak Moonshine and Westons Old Rosie on 15/05/08), Belgian bottled beers & a large selection of malt whiskies.

Coalheavers Arms 5 Park Street, Woodston Peterborough PE2 9BH (01733 565664)

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Similar to its close neighbour, the Palmerston Arms. The pub offers a choice of eight real ales and one real cider or perry on hand-pump (Cassels , Westons); an extensive selection of Belgian bottled beers and a reasonable selection of malt whiskies.