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A bit about Cider

Let’s raise a glass to good times! And what better glass
to raise than 1985, a deliciously refreshing (and multiple
award winning) premium lager. Pale straw in colour,
it’s brewed using the best of British hops together with
European lager hops for a cool, crisp taste.
Welcome to this exciting guide to tipple and tour your way around Herefordshire’s
new generation of drinks producers, and not forgetting the established artisan
cidermakers that the county is famous for.

While fruit trees grew well before the Another cider giant, Westons, has its family
Romans, it was they who first recorded home and plant near Ledbury producing
drinks made from fermented apples and amongst others, their famous Stowfords
pears. Herefordshire’s cider heritage goes Press. They too do wonderful tours, with
back centuries, when in the 15C it is even a restaurant, café and cider shop on site.
said that babies were bathed in cider as it
was said to be cleaner than the water! Those are the big boys, but it’s
Herefordshire’s plethora of artisan cider
Viscount Scudamore (the Scudamore family makers that provide the real excitement
still reside at Kentchurch Court in the here. Making small batches, working with
Golden Valley) brought back the Red Streak the natural variation of the annual fruit
apple variety from Normandy in the 17C, crops, developing new blends and flavours
improving English stocks and cider rapidly and cultivating their own connoisseur
became the national drink. Of course it will community, craft cider is seeing an amazing
not have been the refined nectar we know renaissance once again and many would
today, but it’s said that at one point there like to see it rival wine at a dinner service.
were more cider houses than beer houses
(pubs) in the country. Photos Westons Cider wagon | Cider apple orchards
| An old stone mill at the Museum of Cider
By the 1900s Bulmers was operating the
largest apple-pressing mill in the world
and still does (although it is now owned Scan this QR code
by Heineken), and we all know their iconic to discover even
brands like Strongbow, Woodpecker and more products and
Scrumpy Jack. The original site in Hereford destinations on our
City is now the country’s only dedicated huge website.
Cider Museum and well worth a visit.

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