31st Cambridge Beer Festival Programme : Next section

French cider

Raffray

Beautifully balanced medium-dry Brittany cidet. 5% abv.

Viard

Full-flavoured medium-dry Normandy cider. 4.5%

British cider

Cassels, Cambridgeshire,

Made mainly using cider apples entirely from small unsprayed orchards.

Medium dry. 7.0%abv

Single variety ciders:

Yarlington Mill 8.0%

Dabinett 8.4%

Michelin 8.0%

Waggon and Horses, Milton, Cambs.

Cider made from the fruit growing in the garden of one of our best local pubs, sweetened with local honey.

Drunken Horse Cider 6.6%

Cambridgeshire Cider Syndicate, Cottenham, Cambs.

'Old Bill's Premium' Dry 8.0%

Castlings Heath, Suffolk.

Natural cider made using 100% organic East Anglian apples.

Dry, crisp and fresh. 6.5%

Crones, Norfolk.

Popular organic Norfolk ciders.

User Friendly 6.2%

Original 7.5%

Whin hill, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk.

Made mainly from cider apples grown in their own orchards on the North Norfolk coast. Sweetened with apple juice.

Medium 7.2%

Burrow Hill, Somerset.

Made on one of Somerset's largest cider farms for the last 150 years, and used to make the famous Somerset Cider Brandy.

Medium 6.5%

Ben Crossman, Somerset.

Traditional unfiltered farmhouse cider.

Dry. 6.5%

Brooklyn Farm, Shropshire.

Also known as Shout, scraggybags and carpetgripper.

Dry. 7.0%

Broome Farm, Herefordshire.

Old-established fruit farm, mostly supplying Bulmers.

Dry. 6.0%

Rich's, Somerset.

Farmhouse cider matured in the wood.

Sweet 6%

Green Valley, Exeter, Devon.

Company founded in 1989 by former Whiteways Cider employees. Traditional craft methods producing full-flavoured ciders.

Ordinary medium 5.5%

Gwynt, Yrddraig

Dragon's Wind - Winner of CAMRA Cider of the Year 2004

Hecks, Somerset.

Single variety ciders fermented in wooden barrels in the traditional way since 1896.

Range of ABV's 6.3% - 6.7%

Yarlingron Mill - medium, sweet.

Kingston Black - medium, dry.

Loyal Drain - dry.

Hangdown - medium.

Rathay's, Herefordshire.

Orchards fertilised by the herd of Angora goats on this smallholding.

Old Goat cider. Dry 7.2%

Tremletts Bitter 7.2%

Summers, Gloucestershire.

Following the recent death of the maker, this may be the last opportunity to try last year's National winner.

Medium 5.8%

Tilley, Gloucestershire.

Made at Moat Farm for the last 35 years byretired musician.

Medium 5.0%

Wllkins, Somerset.

Made by well-known cider character on the farm started by his grandfather in 1917.

Sweet. 6.5%

Osir, Wales

Individual fine mountain ciders.

Medium 7.7%

Mynediad Ysbyty, Wales.

Welsh for Hospital Admissions due to the cidery being located on the site of an old hospital.

Medium 7.3%

Perry

Troggi, Wales.

Produced by senior hospital consultant on the fringes of the Wentwood Forest. 7.0%

Hartland, Gloucestershire.

Classic crisp sweetish perry. 5.8%

Newton Court, Herefordshire.

A new project by father and son team with much experience in fruit-growing. 7.4%

Hecks, Somerset.

Single varieties, abv around 6.6%:

Blakeney Red

Newbridge

Hendre Huffcap

Day's Cottage, Gloucestershire.

Produced on organic smallholding from orchards established in 1912. 7.0%

Apple juice

Elbourn Apples, Meldreth, Herts.

Local apple juice made by long-established horicultural family from fruit grown on their own extensive orchards.