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
Three Sheets to the Wind - 5.9% Cider
BRISTOL CIDER COMPANY - Bristol, Avon
Rhuby - 4% Rhubarb Cider.
BUTFORD ORGANICS, Bodenham, Herefordshire
Organic Perry - 5.3% Perry.
CELTIC MARSHES, Bishops Frome, Herefordshire
Ruby Tuesday - 4% Raspberry Cider.
GWYNT Y DDRAIG, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff
Two Trees Perry - 4.5% Perry
HALLETTS, Newport, Gwent
Blindfold - 6% Cider
HOGAN’S, Alcester, Warwickshire
Country Mile - 4.7% Cider
HOGAN’S, Alcester, Warwickshire
Lonely Partridge - 5.8% Perry
IFORD, Bradford Upon Avon, Wiltshire
New Tradition - 5% Cider
KENT CIDER COMPANY, Faversham, Kent
Hop - 5.5% Cider
KENT CIDER COMPANY, Faversham, Kent
Spiced - 5% Cider
KENT CIDER COMPANY, Faversham, Kent
Toffee Apple - 5.5% Cider
LUKE’S CIDER, Walthamstow, London
Vintage Draft - 6% Cider
MILL LANE, Stebbing, Essex
Dry - 6% Cider
OLIVER'S, Hereford, Herefordshire
Traditional Dry - 6.7% Perry
ROSIE'S, Wrexham, Denbighshire
Wicked Wasp - 6.5% Cider
ROSS-ON-WYE CIDER & PERRY COMPANY Ross on Wye, Herefordshire
Harry Masters - 6.8%, Cider
ROSS-ON-WYE CIDER & PERRY COMPANY Ross on Wye, Herefordshire
Raison D’Etre 2020 - 7% Cider [Keykeg]
SEVERN CIDER, Newnham, Gloucestershire
Perry - 5.4% Perry
VENTONS, Cullompton, Devon
Sweet Maid in Devon - 6.5% Cider
WILLIAMS BROTHERS CIDER, Bedwas, Monmouthshire
Growler - 5.7% Cider