Cider list

From Ukcider

Cambridge beer festival Monday 22nd - Saturday 27th May 2006

Ciders and Perrys for Cambridge Beer Festival 2006

ENGLISH CIDERS

CASSELS, Cambridge. The local cider, now under new ownership. All fruit used is from small unsprayed orchards. Medium 7% Dabinett whisky cask 7% Yarlington Mill, Medium 7%

CAMBRIDGESHIRE CIDER SYNDICATE, Cottenham. A blend of local dessert apples and Somerset cider fruit. Old Bill’s Dry 7% Old Bill’s Medium 7%

WAGGON AND HORSES, Milton Cambridge. Made from apples growing in the back garden of this popular local hostelry. Drunken Horse, sweetened with honey 7% One Tree Cider 7%

CASTLINGS HEATH, Sudbury, Suffolk. Organic Cider fermented in old rum and whisky casks. Dry 6.5%

CRONES, Kenning hall, Norfolk. Popular organic Norfolk ciders. User Friendly 6.2% Special reserve 7.5% Original 7.5%

WHIN HILL, Wells-next-the-sea, Norfolk. Made mainly from cider apples grown in orchards on the North Norfolk coast. Major, Medium 6.8% Medium/Dry 6.5%

NORFOLK CIDER COMPANY, Hoveton, Norfolk. Norfolk’s oldest established cider-makers, using an original 19th Century mill and press. Kingfisher, Sweet 7.5%

HEREWARD BREWERY, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Cider made from local cookers and eaters, with a few crab apples. Medium/Dry 6.5%

GUERNESY CIDER COMPANY, Guernsey, Channel islands. Cider-making has been revived on the island in recent years. Not much information available at time of going to press. Rocquette cider (otherwise known as scallywags?)

SHEPPYS, Bradford on tone, Somerset. Family-run traditional cider makers since early 1800. Sweet 6%

HECKS, Street, Somerset. Single variety ciders fermented in wooden barrels the traditional way since 1896. Kingston black (Gold medal winner 2006) Fair Maid of Devon PortWine of Glastonbury Approx 6.5%

BURROW HILL, Martlock, Somerset Farmhouse cider made from the farm’s 150 acres of orchards. The firm also produces the famous Somerset cider Brandy. Medium dry. 6.5%

WEST CROFT CIDER, Highbridge, Somerset. Founded in 1994, high quality traditional cider. Janet’s Jungle Juice. Medium 6.5%

COUNTRYMAN CIDER, Tavistock, Devon. Fromthe lovely Tamar valley, Devon county show gold medal winners 2004. Medium cider. 6.5%

WISCOMBE CIDER, Colyton, Devon. Cider-making on this farm still done by horse and manpower, two horses used to pull the granite mill. Merrymaker. Medium 6% Suicider 8%

MILL TOP, Combeinteignhead, Devon. A relatively recently established enterprise in South Devon. Dry and tannic 7%

HUNTS, Paignton, Devon. Family farm producing traditional farm cider from their own 18 acres of orchards. Medium/Dry. 6%

DOUBLE VISION CIDER CO. Boughton Monchelsea, Kent. Famous throughout Kent and E.Sussex, unfiltered and produced using Kentish apples. Double Vision, Medium 7.5%

BIDDENDEN, Ashford, Kent. One of the UK’s largest regional producers Bushels, Medium. 6.0%

MINCHEW, Ashchurch, Gloucestershire. Award- winning ciders made by one of our most respected makers, dedicated to producing the highest quality ciders and parries. Dabinett, Dry 8%

GRAFTON FIELD, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. Small cider and perry producer, only limited quantities available. Dry cider.

GWATKIN, Abbey Dore, Herefordshire. Single-variety ciders. Twice CAMRA National Championship winners. Foxwhelp, Dry 7.5% Stoke Red, Dry 7.5% Norman. Dry 7.5%

WELSH CIDERS

GWYNT Y DDRAIG , Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Dragon’s blood in welsh! Haymaker, Medium 6.8%

SEIDR O SIR, Betws Diserth, Mid Wales. Individual, fine mountain cider from Radnorshire. Medium 7.7%

RALPH’S CIDER, New Radnor, Mid Wales. Wales’ longest-established licensed cider-makers. Champion cider of Wales 2004.

PERRY

SEIDR DAI, Cardiff, South Wales. Perry won gold at 2006 National championships.

HARTLANDS, Tirley, Gloucestershire. A return of the classic, crisp, sweetish perry. 5.8%

DAY’S COTTAGE, Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire. Produced from orchards planted in 1912, using the same ancient stone wheel crusher and press 7.2%

OLIVER’S Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire. Natural perry from unsprayed local fruit 6.8%

ROSS-ON-WYE, Peterstow, Herefordshire. Formerly Broome Farm. We hope to have some of the same batch that has just won silver at the National championships. 6%

BROADOAK, Clutton, Somerset. One of the largest independents. Medium/Sweet perry

APPLE JUICE

CAM VALLEY ORCHARDS formerly Elbourn Apples, Meldreth, Herts. Locally – produced, fresh pressed apple juice, made by same family since 1846.