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Bill Meaden, owner and Cidermaker at Cranborne Chase Cider has won the Best Cider Producer for the second year in a row at the recent Dorset Food and Drink awards held at the George Albert Hotel near Evershot.
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From 12th-14th August the beautiful grounds of the 16th century Llancaiach Fawr manor house in rural South East Wales will transform from a gentile country estate to the host of the first International Craft Cider Festival.
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It's happening again and this time there will be even more cider and hopefully plenty of sun!
It's Twisted Cider's second annual cider festival at The Beaufort, Montpelier, Bristol. We will be hosting 12 different ciders for you fine people to drink and if they have not all sold out maybe some of our limited edition Twisted Cider!
Where: The Beaufort, Montpelier, Bristol, BS6 5QB
When: 30th July 2011 - 2pm till close
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Thatchers has signed a three-year agreement with Bath Rugby as their Official Cider Partner. The deal will see the Thatchers logo on the Bath jerseys, branding around the Recreation Ground including the north stand becoming the Thatchers Stand, as well as getting a range of their ciders installed at bars throughout the ground.
The Sandford-based business will be working closely with Bath Rugby’s Official Beer Partner, Wadworth, to bring a full range of traditional ciders to fans, with sampling and special events on match days including a dedicated real ale and cider bar.
Managing director Martin Thatcher is delighted with the sponsorship, the company’s first with a premiership rugby club: “This is great news for Thatchers. Bath’s emphasis on quality and family values are attributes which we both share, so it’s a natural partnership. We are looking forward to developing the relationship, and exploring new opportunities where we can involve our customers, consumers and our local communities.”
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Healey’s Cyder continues to give Cornish cyder a cool, modern edge with its latest introduction, Healey’s Texan-Style Cornish Hard Cyder. This newest innovation, a special blend to commemorate a Texas-meets-Cornwall classic car racing adventure, will be launching exclusively nationwide as part of the inaugural JD Wetherspoon Summer Cider Festival (21-31 July 2011).
Healey’s Texan-Style Cornish Hard Cyder is a 6.5% ABV apple blend with subtle fruit and ginger aromas, giving way to a ‘bone-dry’ finish. With the label of this Texan-style Cornish hard cyder reflecting the American West inspiration, the serving suggestion includes another first for the cyder industry. Healey’s Texan-Style Cornish Hard Cyder is recommended drunk from the bottle with a twist of lime, to ‘ignite’ the flavours and make it an even cooler refresher for summer.
The inspiration for Healey’s Texan-Style Cornish Hard Cyder came from an adrenaline-fuelled classic car race in May 2011 at Eagles Canyon Raceway in Texas. The ‘Healey Boys’ (father and son, David and Sam Healey) were invited to Texas to race legendary Austin Healey cars, built purely for racing in the sixties by David Healey’s grandfather, Donald Healey. Sam was in the ’67 Coupe, one of eleven cars made for racing at the world famous Le Mans race. David raced in the ’68 Roadster, the only model ever to be made for racing at the Targa Florio road race. Battling hard, neck and neck under the blistering sun, it was a tight finish with only 0.02 seconds between the two.
“The moment was so intense and exciting that we just had to capture it in a bottle,” explains Sam Healey of Healey’s Cyder. “We are constantly looking at ways to bring added interest and excitement to the sector and this was just too good an opportunity to miss. It’s a great tasting cyder, with a distinctive dry finish – a real quencher when you’re ‘hotter than hell,’ as they say in Texas!”
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The inaugural International Craft Cider Festival held at Llancaiach Fawr manor house in the middle of August has been hailed a success by organisers The Welsh Perry & Cider Society.
A total of 20 makers from England, Wales, France, Spain and Germany attended the event, which blended an outdoor music festival format with the opportunity to sample cider and perry from around Europe. The organisers also ran a series of well-attended seminars on subjects ranging from orcharding to cider-related literature.
SWECA member Worley's Cider and Cheddar's Wilcox Cider represented the South West alongside such famous names as Ross-on-Wye Cider, Gwatkins and Oliver's Cider.