Tag Archives: Herefordshire
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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Cider and Perry making at Oliver’s
Posted on June 24, 2010 by Jim C.
Tom Oliver, award-winning proprietor of ‘Oliver’s Cider & Perry‘, takes us through the process of Perry and Cider making on his farm in Herefordshire, England. View our listing for real cider and perry producers in Herefordshire.
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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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Cider types around the UK
Posted on January 17, 2010 by Jim C.
There are two broad main traditions in cider production in the UK – the West tradition and the Kent and East Anglia tradition. The former are made using a much higher percentage of true cider-apples and so are richer in tannins and sharper in flavour. Kent and East Anglia ciders tend to use a higher [...]
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Real Cider Elsewhere
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