Welcome to the cider bar.

The following ciders and perries are subject to availability.

Cider is just about the easiest drink to make. Generally speaking, in the West of England and Wales, specific cider apples are used. In other parts it is common to use a mixture of eating and cooking apples. They are crushed and the juice pressed out. It is then left and either the natural yeast in the fruit or a cultured yeast is used and with the natural sugars, will ferment until you end up with an alcoholic drink known as cider. This will usually be very dry and can then be sweetened to make a medium or sweet drink if desired. Perry, usually made using specific perry pears, is produced in exactly the same way.

A lot of the larger producers use apple concentrate instead of juice, add lots of water, colouring and flavouring, pasteurise the cider and then add gas. One thing that it isn't is natural. The majority of 'fruit flavoured' ciders use concentrate or syrup and are then watered down so they pay the lowest rate of duty. They are, for duty purposes, classed as wines and not ciders.

If you have not tried real cider and perry, why not give it a try? You may be pleasantly surprised.

AGAINST THE GRAIN - Earlsfield, London

Dabinett - 7.2% Cider

AGAINST THE GRAIN - Earlsfield, London

Snowball Effect - 4.7% Cider

BARBOURNE - Stourport, Worcestershire

Sweet Kernel - 4.5% Rhubarb Cider.

BIG NOSE & BEARDY, Framfield, Sussex

This Little Piggy - 7.1% Cider.

DUDDA'S TUN, Doddington, Kent

Apricot - 4.0% Cider.

FARMER JIM'S, Daccombe, Devon

Rootin Tootin - 4.0% Cider

GWATKIN, Abbey Dore, Herefordshire

Squeal Pig - 4.5% Perry

GWYNT Y DDRAIG, Pontypridd, South Wales

Happy Daze - 4.5% Perry

HALLETTS, Newport, Gwent

Heartbreaker - 7.0% Cider

IFORD, Bradford Upon Avon, Wiltshire

Windfall - 6.0% Cider

LUKE’S CIDER, Walthamstow, London

Return of the Kingston - 6.0% Cider

MILL LANE, Stebbing, Essex

Dry - 6.0% Cider

MR WHITEHEADS, Alton, Hampshire

Novo Pyrus Perry - 7.0% Perry

NIGHTINGALE, Tenterden, Kent

Mystery Bird - 7.0% Cider

NIGHTINGALE, Tenterden, Kent

Tenterden - 5.5% Cider

OLIVER'S, Hereford, Herefordshire

Traditional Perry - 6.0% Perry

PURBECK CIDER CO, Wareham, Dorset

Katy Perry - 5.5% Pider

REAL AL, Walthamstow, London

Crafty Apple - 4.5%, Cider

SNAIL'S BANK, Pencombe, Herefordshire

Black Forest - 4.0% Cider

SNAIL'S BANK, Pencombe, Herefordshire

Pig Squeal - 7.0% Cider

TEMPLE, Broadwindsor, Dorset

Perry - 6.5% Perry

TUTTS CLUMP, Bradfield, Berkshire

Blackberry - 4.0% Cider

UMBRELLA, Bethnal Green, London

Classic - 5.0% Cider