Archive for 'Award Winning Ciders'
The Big Apple Cider and Perry Trials Winners 2011
Posted on May 1, 2011 by Jim C.
The annual awards in Herefordshire, coinciding with the blossom time event, had a good number of entries this year. The small scale cider makers that enter these awards had to pick from their collection of ciders and perries that had been fermenting over the winter.. Due to the long, extremely cold winter the fermentation of wild [...]
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International Cider Challenge results 2010
Posted on September 27, 2010 by Jim C.
The results of the International Cider Challenge 2010 are in. This is the first year of the competition and it attracted over a hundred entries. Drinks International recruited a panel of cider experts to blind taste the ciders, which were then awarded trophies and medals. The overall trophy winner was Merrydown Medium Cider. Judges were Simon [...]
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International Cider & Perry Competition 2010
Posted on May 13, 2010 by Jim C.
We’ve had the regional cider and perry award, then the National Cider and Perry Awards, now we have the results for the largest cider award of the year. The results of the International Cider & Perry Competition held at the Cider Museum in Hereford on Wednesday 12th May 2010 are as follows. The judges were: Mr. [...]
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The Big Apple Cider and Perry Trials 2010
Posted on May 5, 2010 by Jim C.
The annual Cider and Perry Trials held at Putley Village Hall have become an important fixture in the calendars of craft cider and perry producers in the Herefordshire region. This is a peer-judged event with all the judging carried out by the entrants in a series of blind tastings. There are categories for both draught [...]
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National Cider and Perry Championships 2010
Posted on May 4, 2010 by Jim C.
CAMRA’s National Cider and Perry Championships 2010 in Reading featured 24 ciders and 24 perries, selected from different regions of the UK. The ciders and perries are assessed on factors such as aroma, flavour, overall balance and finish by a judging panel consisting of publicans, drinks writers and CAMRA members. Delighted at the news of the cider [...]
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