Ciders :

Six Ciders for Christmas Day - A Tipple with your Turkey

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Christmas Dinner, and we're not making things any easier for you. Let's assume that like us you're having Turkey . Over the years we've tried the alternatives, from a Free-Range Goose which was so long it only just fitted in the oven (I[...]

Local Ciders for Local People

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Is this the largest range of East Midlands Ciders and Perries ever assembled in one place? Probably, but even seven producers is less than half  the total now producing locally. These are the bottles I'll be taking to a talk and[...]

Go West

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This lovely pic shows Leicester CAMRA cider bar manager (and one half of the Aylestone Picking & Panking Team ) Susan Shirley , enjoying the view from the inside of noted cider pub, the Plough Inn , Taunton. Ciders and perrys on[...]

Go East...

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If there were ever a time to kick back, soak up the rays, and enjoy a cool glass of cider, it's probably next weekend to be honest. But in the mean time, there's plenty of hot festival action this Easter Bank Holiday weekend, which should act as a[...]

Fun in Brum

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In the bleak midwinter there's nothing I like more than standing knee-deep in snow, inadequately dressed for the weather, nursing an ice-cold Weissbier in frost-bitten, gloveless hands. Sounds a treat doesn't it? Did I mention[...]

Fillet'O'Pig

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I usually cook Pork Fillet in the ' Normandy ' style. Apples , Calvados , Cream . A little Flambée fun... singed eyebrows, swigging lustily from a bottle of Cidre Brut and pinching Karen's bottom whenever she gets too close. ' Hee-Haw,[...]

Newton Abbot

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In the absence of any hard facts emerging from Paul & Sue's Grand Tour of the West Country , I'll have to make some up... This first pic shows a mixed double of ciders being enjoyed in Ye Olde Cider Bar in Newton Abbot. The smaller of the[...]

Time for Bread

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It's National Bread Week.... Ho-Hum! Apparently we're supposed to celebrate this important national event by buying trolley-loads of nasty white-sliced 'Bread', and thinking really hard about the 'roll' (ha-ha!) that this (ahem!) 'Bread' plays[...]

Worcester Sauce

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Now isn't that a beautiful sight. Classy, stylish, fully at home in the orchard, and truly up for the job in hand. She's a real looker for sure, but underneath, a real powerhouse, never shirking from the hard graft of the Autumn harvest. I take my[...]

Fruit Salad Days

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The bloomin' hard graft of cidermaking could become something of a chore at this time of year. Picking, washing, milling, pressing.... cleaning, picking, washing, milling, sleeping.....picking.... I think you get the idea.[...]