Cider & Perry List

Producer Producer Info

Jez Howat started making cider as a hobby in 2004, and uses both dessert and cider fruit to produce his Hampshire Heritage cider. Did their first pressing last year in Ashcott, Somerset. For more than 200 years the monks of Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire have been growing apples in the monastery orchard and making cider. Known for their methode champenoise sparkling ciders, Ashridge use cider apples from Devon orchards Their orchard has 30 mature standard trees, and was originally contracted to Bulmers Greenstreet farm is a working farm with beef cattle and sheep. John Barker uses only unsprayed fruit from the old farm orchards and one local Victorian orchard. The apples are pressed using an ancient Sussex single screw press, at least 100 years old. Made exclusively using fruit from within five miles of the farm. Andy Hallett makes cider on his South Wales farm using apples from his own orchards and others around South East Wales Named after an ancient Leicestershire tradition, cider is made from Gloucestershire cider apples as well as local fruit.

County

Name
Eastern Delight

C/P ABV
Cider Cider Perry Cider 7.10% 6.50% 7.50% 6.00%

Saturday Local Stock Producer

146 Cider

Hampshire

Hampshire Heritage Classic Perry

Adcocks

Somerset

Cider

Ampleforth Abbey

Yorkshire

Cider

Cider

6.50%

Ashridge

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Barbourne

Worcestershire

Crimson Red SV Painted Lady SV

Cider Perry

6.00% 6.00%

Barkers

Worcestershire

BBC

Cider

6.50%

Perry West Sussex JB

Perry Cider

7.00% 7.50%

Batcheldors

Berry Farm

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Blaengawney

Gwent

Blakeney Red SV

Cider

4.50%

SAT

Scrambler Leicestershire Perry

Cider Perry

7.00% 5.20%

Bottle Kicking

Producer

Producer Info
Nigel Stewart started making cider under the name of Sanford Cider in Dorset before moving to Bridge farm. He uses apples grown in his own orchards or harvested locally. One of the largest independent cider producers with a range of traditional, keg and bottled ciders. Champion perry 2009. Julian Temperley is a well known cider character, and has been producing cider brandy since 1989. His 'cider bus' serves Glastonbury festival. Butford Farm is a mixed organic smallholding. Janet and Martin Harris started selling cider in 2001, and have increased production each year. The cider is hand-pressed from unsprayed apples and fermented in Cambridgeshire. Started 1983, using own orchards. The cider, made from Bramleys and other mixed dessert apples, is matured for up to two years before they are sold. A small Leicestershire producer Castle Cider was set up in 1987 by Tim Davies and his brother Rick. Only Kentish apples from local farmers are used. Michael and John Dinnage began cidermaking in 1993. They use a blend of locally-sourced predominantly bitter-sweet cider apples. Producing in Berkshire since 2003. Primarily uses local cookers and eaters, but Dab Hand uses Dabinett cider apples. Rory Souter has been making cider for about 9 years, using cider apples from the Cotswolds. Cider has been produced since 1858.In 1972 the old press (on display at the North Cornwall Museum) was replaced by a hydraulic mill and press. Ben Crossman uses a wide range of Somerset cider apple varieties to produce his traditional, unfiltered, farmhouse cider. Small scale craft cider producer based in Flintshire

County

Name

C/P ABV

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Bridge Farm

Somerset

Perry

Perry

6.50%

Broadoak

Somerset

Perry

Perry

7.50%

Burrow Hill

Somerset

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Cider Herefordshire Brandy SV

Cider

6.00%

SAT

Butford Organics

Perry

6.00%

Cassels

Cambridgeshire

Summer Season

Cider

4.60%

Chafford

Kent

Hellishly Strong

Cider 13.50%

Charnwood Cider Company

Leicestershire

Apple Av Another

Cider

5.00%

Chiddingstone

Kent

Cider

Cider

7.50%

Chucklehead

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.50%

Combe Raider Dab Hand Berkshire Kingston Black Ten Years After No Brainer Oxfordshire Sideburn

Cider Cider Cider Cider Cider Cider

6.50% 6.50% 6.50% 6.50% 6.00% 6.00%

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

Ciderniks

Cotswold Cider

Countryman

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.50%

Crossmans

Somerset

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Dee Cider

Flintshire

Richard's Medium

Cider

6.40%

Producer

Producer Info
Penny and Oliver Strong own and run the orchard with their five children. Oliver has built the apple press, the cider barn and their family home, all set in the Orchard. The company started in 1995 in Staplehurst. Until recently they were the only Kent perry maker. Lancashire's first semicommercial cider producer is set in the Ribble Valley and uses locally picked Lancashire apples. From the Hampshire/West Sussex border, the cider is made from their own coastline orchards Dunkertons is a family company started in 1979 by Susie and Ivor Dunkerton in a smallholding of 18 acres. All their ciders and perries are organic. This Kent producer from near Ashford uses culinary and dessert apples Made from unwanted apples and pears collected from local gardens We grows our own apples, we scrats our own apples, we presses our own apples, and we drinks our own cider Made from several varieties of traditional cider apples grown in the grounds of Gillow Manor, Herefordshire Devon's longest established cider maker, with over 300 years of English family cidermaking. Green Valley Cider was founded in 1989 by Chris Coles using only traditional Bittersweet cider apples grown in Devon. Denis Gwatkin uses apples and pears from the farm's original orchards and other local orchards which grow along the Golden Valley. Gold award cider & bronze perry 2009.

County

Name

C/P ABV

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Dorset Nectar

Dorset

Cider

Cider

5.50%

Cider Kent Impeared Vision

Cider Perry

7.40% 7.40%

Double Vision

Dove Syke

Lancashire

Ribble Valley Gold

Cider

6.20%

SAT

Golden Squirrel West Sussex Wasps Blood

Cider Cider

6.40% 5.90% SAT

Dreymans

Dunkertons

Herefordshire

Cider

Cider

7.00%

East Stour

Kent

Perry

Perry

5.80%

Evershed

Bedfordshire

Rectory

Cider

6.80%

SAT

Farmer Jim's

Devon

Cider

Cider

5.00%

Gillows

Herefordshire

Knicker Dropper

Cider

6.70%

Grays

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.50%

Green Valley

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.80%

Stoke Red SV Herefordshire Malvern Hills SV

Cider

7.50%

Gwatkins

Perry

7.50%

Gwynt Y Ddraig

Bill George and his nephew Andrew Gronow started making cider in 2001. Their ciders and Glamorgan perries can be found in pubs and supermarkets across Wales and beyond. Silver award perry 2013

Black Dragon

Cider

7.30%

Two Trees

Perry

4.50%

Producer

Producer Info
The Hancock family have been making traditional Devon cider for over 100 years, with recipes and skills being handed down for over five generations. Cider and perry making has been in the Hartland family for three generations.

County

Name

C/P ABV

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Hancocks

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Hartlands

Gloucestershire

Perry

Perry

5.80%

Hecks

The Hecks have been making cider since 1840. They still use wooden barrels to mature the Somerset cider, with all apples grown in their own orchards, and produce many single varietals. Jonty Wright owns the Banham Barrel pub in Norfolk. A traditional Kent producer from Faversham, winner of the 2014 Kent regional perry competition. Established in 2012 in Kingston, Canterbury Although he downsized some years ago, Roy Bailey still produces small quantities of cider commercially, and the excellent crop in 2013 inspired him to produce SHEFFORD GOLD entirely from local apples. Based at Corton Denham near Sherbourne, John uses mainly bittersweet apples from local orchards. He used to deliver cider in his Porsche! Unusually this producer combines their apples and pears to make pider Working out of a garage in Woodford Green, Peter, John and Rochelle have been selling cider made from London apples for 3 years. Made from apples of the orchards at Long Crendon Manor in Buckinghamshire Inspired by wasted apples in a local orchard, a project to build a cider press led to commercial production. Traditional cider from Herefordshire. Traditional Dorset cider from Mark Rogers Marshwood Vale cider is fermented for an average of 6 months, and finished in oak barrels. Norfolk

Port Wine of Glastonbury Cider

6.50%

Perry

Perry

6.50%

Jonty's

Red Sky

Cider

6.00%

Kent Cider Company

Kent

Perry

Perry

6.00%

Kingswood

Kent

Brainbiter

Cider

6.60%

Lambourn Valley

Berkshire

Shefford Gold

Cider

6.40%

LOCAL

Lawrence's

Dorset

Cider

Cider

6.00%

SAT

Little Red Rooster

East Sussex

Cider Perry

Pider

8.40%

London Glider

Greater London

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Long Crendon Cider

Buckinghamshire

Late Summer Harvest Mid Autumn Harvest

Cider Cider

5.50% 5.50%

LOCAL LOCAL

Lulworth Skipper

Dorset

Cider

Cider

5.00%

Marcherman Mark Rogers

Herefordshire Dorset

Cider Cider

Cider Cider

7.50% 6.50%

SAT

Marshwood Vale

Dorset

Dorset Tit

Cider

7.20%

SAT

Tom Putt SV

Cider

5.30%

Producer

Producer Info
Founded by Roger Hesten and Dave Harrison in 2010, they use traditional varieties of cider apples and perry pears. From Kynaston, just outside Much Marcle. Some of the orchards used are several hundred years old. From Mersham, near Ashford in Kent. Handmade ciders and perries from fresh local fruit. Kevin Minchew is also known as one of the most enthusiastic conservators of rare varieties, especially of perry pears. A specialist perry producer from the heartland of perry production. Rob and Caroline Gibbon were initially inspired by Ampleforth Abbey and have been making cider in East Yorkshire since 2008. A founding member of Swamp Donkey Cider, Angus Whitehead decided to expand and set up on his own in 2003. Piglets Choice cider is made in the village of Nempnett Thrubwell, sheltered by the Mendip Hills. Trefor Powell makes cider and occasionally perry from Radnorshire fruit at Betws Cottage near Llandrindod Wells. Organic Apple and Pear farm based in Robertsbridge. Olivers Cider & Perry is a producer of distinctive Herefordshire single varietals and blends. The pressed fruit is fermented by wild yeasts and then matured in oak barrels. Joint bronze perry 2011

County

Name
Jackdaw

C/P ABV
Cider Cider Perry 5.60% 5.20% 5.40%

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Mates Cider

Wiltshire

Skylark Red Leg

Mays

Herefordshire

Cider

Cider

5.50%

Merry Moon

Kent

Lunatickle

Cider

6.40%

Minchews

Gloucestershire

Perry

Perry

6.00%

SAT

Moores

Gloucestershire

Perry

Perry

6.00%

Moorlands Farm

Yorkshire

Medium Sweet

Cider

6.40%

Mr Whitehead's

Hampshire

Cirrus Minor Equinox Rum Cask Midnight Special Pear Light Apples & Pears

Cider Cider Cider Perry Perry Pider

5.00% 4.50% 7.00% 5.00% 3.80% 5.00%

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

Nempnett

Somerset

Piglet's Choice

Perry

5.50%

O Sir

Radnorshire

Betws

Cider

6.30%

SAT

Oakwood

East Sussex

Organic Cider Organic Perry

Cider Perry

5.40% 5.00%

Cider Herefordshire Perry

Cider

6.00%

Olivers

Perry

6.00%

Orchard Cottage

Toby and Sian started producing cider on a small scale in 2010 and went commercial last year. They planted their own orchard of about 400 trees and also source apples from elsewhere. The Orchards of Husthwaite Cooperative was formed in 2009 with the intention of replanting the vanishing orchards of Husthwaite and using the fruit to make a variety of products.

Hitchcox Cider Hitchcox Cider Hitchcox Cider Hitchcox Cider

Cider Cider Cider Cider

5.50% 6.70% 6.20% 4.00%

SAT

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

Oxfordshire

SAT

LOCAL

Orchards of Husthwaite

Yorkshire

Gold

Cider

7.50%

Producer
Parsons Choice

Producer Info
Phil and Jeanette make cider at Parsonage Farm, using all locally sourced cider apples. Family firm founded in 1923 and still going strong. Despite the name, they only make cider - no perry! Pine Trees Farm has 50 acres of orchards, from which the apples produce apple juice and Dudda's Tun cider Produced at Middle Farm, the home of The National Collection of Cider & Perry, a unique celebration of our national fruit. Based at Potton in Bedfordshire, Jon Weekes makes cider and perry using local fruit From Holmfirth, cider has been produced commercially since 2010 using apples from their own orchards. John Scales makes cider from local Buckinghamshire apples. Raglan Cider Mill is a family-run business, using traditional Welsh varieties of apple and pear. They have recently opened their own Cider House. Mark Powell produces cider on a small scale in Benson. Gordon Rich started making farmhouse cider over 50 years ago. Today his daughter runs the business. The cider is matured in huge oak vats. Steve is currently establishing a multi-variety orchard (50 varieties to date). He produces 3 different ciders. CAMRA silver 2009. Mike Johnson is 2009 winner of CAMRA's Pomona award, and conitnues to encourage and assist many budding cidermakers. Broome Farm has both modern bush and traditional standard orchards, which include over 70 varieties of cider apple and perry pear trees. Greg Davies makes Salthill cider in his shed in Slough Dickie Allen makes Scropton cider, the oldest commercial cider producer in Derbyshire. Made in Awre on the banks of the river Severn, using fruit selected from local orchards producing traditional varieties.

County
Somerset

Name
Cider

C/P ABV
Cider 6.00%

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Perrys

Somerset

Vintage

Cider

6.00%

Pine Trees Farm

Kent

Pear O'Dudda's

Perry

5.50%

Pookhill

East Sussex

Irish Whiskey Cask 2012

Cider

8.00%

Potton Press

Bedfordshire

Perry

Perry

6.50%

SAT

Pure North

Yorkshire

Valley Gold

Cider

6.00%

Radnage Cider Company

Buckinghamshire

2012 Oak Aged 2013 Cider Boris Brainbender

Cider Cider Cider

6.10% 6.00% 5.50% SAT

LOCAL LOCAL

Raglan Cider Mill

Monmouthshire Snowy Owl Oxfordshire Cider Perry Cider 4.80% 6.50% SAT LOCAL

Red Dog

Richs

Somerset

Farmhouse

Cider

6.00%

Rosie's

Clwyd

Black Bart's

Cider

7.20%

Cider Herefordshire

Cider

6.00%

Ross on Wye

Alpaca

Perry

6.00%

Autumn Gold Berkshire Merry England Urban Fox Doris Stokes Derbyshire It's Cider not Cidre Nutcracker

Cider Cider Cider Cider Cider Cider

5.00% 6.50% 6.50% 6.30% 6.30% 6.10%

SAT

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

Salthill

SAT

Scropton

Severn Sider

Gloucestershire

Somerset Redstreak SV

Cider

6.80%

Producer

Producer Info
Family run cidermakers since the early 1800s with 47 acres of cider orchards and a cider museum. The fruit comes from their own orchards in Sherston, on the South East fringes of the Cotswolds. A local producer from Aldershot. The bush orchards at Springfield Farm were planted in 1998 and contain cider apple varieties only. They started producing cider in 2004 using apples exclusively from their orchards. A new Kent producer, using a variety of apples from the Garden of England. Fermented with natural yeats strains. Winner of the Kent regional cider competition 2014 Cider has been produced in Tardebigge near Bromsgrove since 1999, using apples from their own orchard Produced from locally grown Derbyshire fruit, including apples from their own orchard Troggi Seidr was founded in 1986 by Michael Penney. The Troggi is the brook running through Earlswood Valley. Whole juice cider and perry are made using only traditional methods. Tim Wale started making cider in Tutts Clump in 2006 using eating and cooking apples from within West Berkshire. Went commercial in 2009 Pete Robinson and Martin Sharp have been making Uncle Stoat's cider in Sussex since 1998 Started in 2006 from a smallholding in Clyst St Lawrence, Mark Venton is now producing more than 1000 gallons of strawpressed cider each year.

County

Name
Medium

C/P ABV
Cider Cider 6.00% 6.00%

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Sheppys

Somerset Sweet

Sherston

Wiltshire

Truly Scrumptious

Cider

6.00%

Shiny Barrel

Hampshire

Special Reserve Standard

Cider Cider

6.00% 5.40%

SAT

LOCAL LOCAL

Springfield

Monmouthshire

Wobbly Munk

Cider

7.80%

Stiles Cider

Kent

Graet Aestern

Cider

6.50%

Tardebigge

Worcestershire

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Three Cats

Derbyshire

Cider

Cider

Troggi

Monmouthshire

Perry

Perry

6.40%

Tutts Clump

Berkshire

Berkshire Diamond Royal Berkshire Rum Cask Special Reserve Traditional Farmhouse Farmhouse Perry

Cider Cider Cider Cider Cider Perry

4.50% 7.00% 7.50% 6.00% 6.00% 6.00%

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

Uncle Stoat's

East Sussex

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Venton

Devon

Straw Pressed Cider

Cider

6.50%

SAT

Virtual Orchard

Coming from nowhere to win Champion Cider in 2011, Laurence Conisbee has now left Buckinghamshire the day job and makes cider fulltime. Uses keeving to produce a naturally sweeter cider. Mostly bottled production Dorset

All About Eve Hogshead Saxon Aelle Cider

Cider Cider Cider Cider

5.50% 5.50% 5.50% 5.00%

West Milton

Producer

Producer Info
Founded in 1992. John Harris is a traditional cider maker, supplying both wholesale and retail outlets with his prizewinning ciders. Westlake farm makes traditional West Country cider from their own Devon cider apples. Mark and Lisa Jarvis took over the Wells-next-the-sea cider business in 2012. Based in Ledbury, Brian Wilce makes traditional cider with his family Their cider is made using wildling apples from the South Downs. Roger Wilkins is a well-known cider character. The family business was set up by his Grandfather in 1917. Land's End is a working farm but Roger is always available to make a trip to the cider cellar! Formed on 26 January 1999 on part of the site of Inch's cider. To honour Sam Inch, (founder of Inch's), one of their cider ranges has been named after him. Formed in 2003 to use the traditional cider orchard on the farm. The cider is fermented and matured in oak barrels, mainly ex rum barrels. Simon Vaughan has been making small scale cider in Woodley for several years A small producer from Milton Keynes Rick Wyatt's cider is made by natural fermentation of local cookers and eaters as well as cider apples from Douai Abbey. The majority of his production is now bottled.

County

Name

C/P ABV

Saturday Local Stock Producer

Westcroft

Somerset

Janets Jungle Juice

Cider

6.00%

Westlake

Devon

Cider

Cider

6.50%

Whin Hill

Norfolk

Perry

Perry

6.00%

SAT

Wilce's

Herefordshire

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Wild Thing

East Sussex

Cider

Cider

7.50%

Wilkins

Somerset

Cider

Cider

6.00%

Winkleigh

Devon

Sam's

Cider

6.00%

WM Watkins

Monmouthshire

Sunset

Cider

7.50%

Berkshire Woodley Sider

Roundabout Reserva WBC Export Wibbly Wobbly Spider

Cider Cider Cider Pider Cider

6.20% 6.30% 6.30% 7.40% 6.00%

SAT

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

Woughton Orchard

Buckinghamshire

Wyatts

Berkshire

Abbey Gold

Cider

6.00%

SAT

LOCAL

Key to colour codes used

Indicates a locally produced Cider or Perry SAT

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