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| Al Caholic |
Posted - 17/11/2004 : 14:14:59
This from CAMRA. Don't know about anyone else but I'm off to Heck's again for a refill!
Highly Recommended Cider and Perry List 2004
Perry
Gwatkin, Blakeney Red - Herefordshire (National Gold)
Summers, Perry - Gloucestershire (National Silver)
Butford Farm, Dry - Herefordshire (National Bronze)
Little Red Rooster, Pider - East Sussex
Hecks, Judge Amplet - Somerset
Hecks, Farmhouse - Somserset
Cider
Gwynt y Ddraig, Medium - Glamorgan (National Gold)
Upton, Sweet - Oxfordshire (National Silver)
Dunkertons, Medium - Herefordshire (National Bronze)
Cornish Orchards, Cider - Cornwall
Winkleigh, Sam's Dry - Devon
Summers, Medium - Gloucestershire
Mr Whitehead, Heart of Hampshire - Hampshire
Biddenden, Bushells (Medium) - Kent
Biddenden, Dry - Kent
Chiddingstone, Medium - Kent
Whin Hill, Cider - Norfolk
Crones, User Friendly - Norfolk
Vickerys, Dry Smokey - Somerset
Broadoak, Moonshine - Somerset
Hecks, Hangdown - Somerset
Hecks, Port Wine of Glastonbury - Somerset
Al 
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| Gents |
Posted - 29/11/2004 : 11:18:07
I will definitely be back in the area one day, i have a lot of unfinished business there as our plans to visit several cider farms were scuppered by me getting ill just before the weekend and public transport not being very frequent to and from cider farms in the middle of nowhere. We only managed to visit Westons Cider, and Hereford Cider Museum, along with a few pubs. Ive got some pictures of these that i'll stick on here when i have time (which will be fascinating for you all!).
ZIDER! |
| Ivanhoe Martin |
Posted - 22/11/2004 : 13:29:10
Oh I know the Victory right enough (although it's been a few years - I used to go to school in Hereford and it was somewhere we could get served under age in those days).
Sounds like you didn't go short of cider. City centre pubs in Hfd tend not to do real cider, but there are a handful. Let us know if you're back there and I'll get some of my mates to give some recommendations (I only really drink in the Barrels now if I go back).
GL is an institution of a drink. It is fed to babies in their bottles, and is typically the first alcoholic thing you will have vomitted back up as an early teenager, if you grew up in Hereford (or the Forest of Dean, as Tharg will tell you). It's excusable for kids to be drinking it (don't know better), but oddly enough a lot of people carry on drinking it into adulthood. Even stranger, they insist on claiming that they are drinking cider.
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| Gents |
Posted - 22/11/2004 : 12:10:38
Yes i did, it was the first pub i found with proper cider. But i went to a small bar at first that only had ale on, so i got one of them in before realising they had Stowfors Press, Thatchers Heritage, and a few others including some wierd Gold Label stuff that everywhere seemed to sell in Hereford although ive never seen it anywhere else (it was crap). That was the only pint we had in the Barrels as we couldn't get a seat, it was packed, and i thought i may be pushing the patience of Bus Stop Girl if insisted on staying for another half hour crammed up against the wall.
Luckily we went to the Victory next down the road, which was a cider heaven with Westons Old Rosie, 1st Quality, Stowford Press, Kingstone Press and Broome Farm on tap, and bottles of westons too (and more Gold Label rubbish). The bar was the side of an old ship too, and they did curry & a pint for about £3 or something crazy. Have you been in this place? Couldn't find as much cider elsewhere in Hereford as I was hoping.
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| Ivanhoe Martin |
Posted - 22/11/2004 : 11:39:23
Did you go to The Barrels in Hereford, Gents? (Proper pub in the city centre with real cider)? |
| Gents |
Posted - 19/11/2004 : 10:54:48
Definitely, you can probably see Portishead from there too, and when you are finished shooting Taffs you could turn the crossbow round and start on Clevedon.
ZIDER! |
| Al Caholic |
Posted - 19/11/2004 : 10:13:50
Incidentally, I was in Clevedon at the weekend and it occurred to me that if you got a really big crossbow on the end of the pier it would be the perfect place to shoot the taffs from. Perhaps it would be worth investigating?
Al
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| Gents |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 15:42:58
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Originally posted by Al Caholic
Visit here http://www.xbows.co.uk/ and I'll see you all in Hereford tomorrow evening
- i would visit it if you lot hadn't blocked the website from my PC  . I'll have a look tonight, but if it confirms that you can legally shoot the Welsh in Hereford i'll be even more gutted as Ive just been there all weekend and didn't even murder any Taffs. Perhaps we can all return for the Hereford fire-walking challenge next year and take our cross-bows?
Im definitely claiming Hereford as English becuase my Gran comes from there so I'd be 1/4 Welsh otherwise!  Plus, the Welsh are not claiming Westons and all the other lovely Hereford ciders... i'll let em have Bulmers but thats it.
ZIDER! |
| Al Caholic |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 14:49:53
Visit here http://www.xbows.co.uk/ and I'll see you all in Hereford tomorrow evening.
Al
Zider I up barkeep! |
| Ivanhoe Martin |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 14:43:21
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Originally posted by Jungle Jim
That would explain the success of the Hereford ciders too!
(Just kidding, I know its technically in England).
Cider's coming home...
Hey! I went to school in Hereford. They hate the Welsh as much as you do (in fact there's a rural myth that a bye law still exists allowing you to shoot Welshmen found within the Cathedral Close at Hfd after dark, as long as you use a crossbow).
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| Al Caholic |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 13:48:01
You've always got that problem with Herefordshire. Is it or isn't it?
I think that even though it is, strictly speaking the wrong side of the water, we should give it the benefit of the doubt for some of the great zider it produces.
Al
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| Jungle Jim |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 13:36:43
That would explain the success of the Hereford ciders too!
(Just kidding, I know its technically in England).
Cider's coming home...
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| Al Caholic |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 13:19:35
I don't know for sure but I suspect that the judges all had surnames like Evans, Williams and Llewellyn, spoke with funny accents and had unusually large amounts of wool stuck to their trousers...
Al
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| Jungle Jim |
Posted - 18/11/2004 : 13:13:17
I can predict that Gold won't get much of a look in, unless we have a worst international cider category?
Cider's coming home...
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| Gents |
Posted - 17/11/2004 : 14:46:37
I can't believe the Welsh have won best cider, im gutted!!!
Sadly there is lots on that list ive never tried, but the ones i have tried i would highly recommend too, so its looks like CAMRA have got it right this time. Definitely up for a Hecks visit, in fact im up for visiting any of those places! Vickerys Dry Smokey sounds like an interesting one, made just outside Taunton it appears from the cider map.
Anyway, these awards will mean nothing compared with the prestigious HMZ Cider Awards, coming soon!
ZIDER! |
| Chowie |
Posted - 17/11/2004 : 14:42:00
A welsh Cider (Gold), what's all that about. |
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