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BBC’s Food and Farming Awards – get voting!
Posted on July 28, 2011 by Jim C.
Is there a cider or perry that you can’t live without? Do you want to tell everyone how great your local cider maker is? Here is your chance to get noticed by a wider audience as nominations for the BBC’s Food and Farming Awards are now open. This year it includes ‘Best Drinks Producer’ and [...]
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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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Putley Cider Trials Review by Hallet’s Cider
Posted on May 1, 2011 by Jim C.
It’s always a pleasure driving up from South Wales to The Big Apple (Putley Cider Trials) because of the many orchards in full bloom on the way. This year was nodisappointment as the blossom was stunning. On arrival we saw the usual faces andhad a quick chat before booking our entries in. While doing that [...]
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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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Lyme Bay Brewery win gold at the Great Taste Awards
Posted on September 22, 2009 by Jim C.
Jack Ratt Secures Prestigious Win for Lyme Bay Lyme Bay Winery’s Jack Ratt Scrumpy cider has won the prestigious three Star Gold at The Great Taste Awards 2009 – the first ever cider to win this accolade. Named after Jack Rattenbury – a notorious Lyme Bay smuggler – it is available in a variety of sizes. [...]
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Real Cider Elsewhere
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