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Review - Malvern Oak Dry Reserve Cider
Nor and I rented a little cottage up in the Malverns for a few days for my birthday a couple of weeks back. Yes that does sound thoroughly bourgeois!. One of the reasons for heading out West was to get nearer to traditional Scrumpy country. And to climb some hills. But that’s another story. I came across the Malvern Oak Dry Reserve in the local Waitrose. Ahem, yeh. That’s probably not sounding any less middle class. Read More …
- 2012-01-29T12:37:33Z
- Published: 12:37:33 on Sunday, 29 January
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Review - Thistly Cross Ginger
Let me begin with an apology. This week I couldn't be arsed with a picture. "Quel unprofessionalisme!" as they would no doubt exclaim in France. And why the slackness? Christmas cards, that's why. Read More …
- 2011-12-19T20:51:39Z
- Published: 20:51:39 on Monday, 19 December
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Review - Gwatkin Yarlington Mill Medium Farmhouse Cider
With today's cider I'm heading back west to the traditional heartlands of ciderism in Herefordshire. For it is in those heartlands that Gwatkin cider is made. On Moorhampton Park Farm in fact. Of Yarlington Mill apples Read More …
- 2011-12-03T20:06:48Z
- Published: 20:06:48 on Saturday, 3 December
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Review - Thistly Cross Gold
I'm not going to beat about the bush here. I like whisky. And I like cider. So I was intrigued to hear of a cider that was matured with chipped whisky barrels. That's got to be good, right? Well, I got a bottle of the Thistly Cross in my recent Cider Club UK order to see if it was. Read More …
- 2011-11-11T22:27:37Z
- Published: 22:27:37 on Friday, 11 November
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Review - Combe Raider
Bonjour ciderists. Long time no wotsit. 5 months in fact. Time flies, eh? This week I've been getting ciders off the internets thanks to Cider Club UK. My ciders arrived at work in a big box a couple of days after ordering, so props to Cider Club UK for that. I got myself a case of 12 assorted ciders for reviewing and supping. Read More …
- 2011-10-26T18:41:53Z
- Published: 18:41:53 on Wednesday, 26 October
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September 2011 Reading
The anticiv folks are a really good read for anyone who wants to do serious political campaigning anticiv or not. This book tries to be a how-to guide for establishing and effective guerilla resistence to ecological destruction. The book is in 4 parts, a sort of overview of why action needs taking, a look at organizing, an introduction to strategy and tactics and a look at the possible future. I must admit that I started with the strategy and tactics section and noodled around the book in a non-linear stylee. I found what I read insightful, and certainly helpful for strategists of resistence (trick number one: have an objective, for example is all too often forgotten).
2011-09-03 by Charlie Harvey
Wilderness Evasion, by Michael Chesbro Read More …- 2011-09-11T17:22:14Z
- Published: 17:22:14 on Sunday, 11 September
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Review - Sam Smiths Organic Cider
I think that Sam Smith's, the Tadcaster based independent brewery, are a fantastic organisation. Everything they brew is vegan and a high percentage is organic. They run some of the cheapest and most pleasant pubs about; their pubs feel like proper pubs, rather than soulless McPub beer malls. By Wotan, none of their pubs or drinks are even advertised in the media! So, I wanted their Organic Cider to be a truly phenomenal drink, like their many fantastic beers. Read More …
- 2011-06-13T18:03:45Z
- Published: 18:03:45 on Monday, 13 June
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Review - Savanna Dry South African Cider
My continuing cider odyssey went in a most peculiar direction with my first crack at a South African cider. I had no idea that such a thing even existed and felt a little bad for incurring all those food miles. So my hopes were high as I settled down to read Q and sup the apples of the African plains. Read More …
- 2011-05-15T21:51:06Z
- Published: 21:51:06 on Sunday, 15 May
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Cider Reviews
Cider is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting apples. I'm particularly fond of good proper cider (i.e. not the sacchirine-infused Strongbow type). I often go by the name ciderpunx online (I like punk rock too). I went through a phase a couple of years back of publishing cider reviews and have now resuscitated the habit. More recent reviews are marked up with the hreview microformat.
Recent cider pics The ciderslider requires javascript. Trying to load it now...Read More …- 2011-04-20T19:02:32Z
- Published: 19:02:32 on Wednesday, 20 April
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Review - Aspalls Premier Cru
You may be thinking that labelling a cider "Premier Cru" is, well, a bit wanky. And I'd have to agree with you. However, Aspall Premier Cru Suffolk Cyder made me reconsider. A bone dry feast of light appley loveliness in a distinctive cone shaped bottle, it positively leapt down my neck. Honest. That's why I had to have a few. It's very much a French-style cider but, with its seven percent kick, you realize pretty soon that you're not in Normandy any more, Toto. Read More …
- 2009-06-18T09:20:10Z
- Published: 09:20:10 on Thursday, 18 June
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Review - Chiddingstone Bone Dry
Chiddigstone Bone Dry is brewed by the Castle Cider company in Sevenoaks, Kent. Served at the Spotted Dog in Penshurst and to my knowledge, no other pub in the area, this 7.5%er certainly packs a powerful punch. It has a crisp, light appearance and certainly does not taste like a strong cider. It has an almost champagne-like appearance and is dry and has a pleasant aftertaste of elderflower. This is the cider for dry cider afficianados. It has everything a dry cider could want to have, aroma, a long palate, beautiful light effervescence and a pale almost ghostly colour. Read More …
- 2008-11-22T17:23:14Z
- Published: 17:23:14 on Saturday, 22 November
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Review - Addlestones
I had high hopes for Addlestones, being, as I was, somewhat hungover from a night at the local. The occasion was the opening of my pal Meredy's official birthday season. It was lunchtime and I was on the "other" side of Magdalen bridge. To East Oxfordians the other side of the bridge is a place of myth, Japanese tourists, stuck up students and well, you know, weirdness. Read More …
- 2008-06-21T21:09:16Z
- Published: 21:09:16 on Saturday, 21 June
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Review - Westons Organic
My local pub started selling Westons Organic cider a few months ago. I'm feeling pretty lucky about it I can tell you. Though mass produced, it's a real cider, made from fruit rather than concentrate. It has a nice balance between bitttersweet apple and booze. Its fairly heavy; more a cider for a cold winter night round the fire than for prancing round a sunny festival with. Read More …
- 2007-09-16T18:03:34Z
- Published: 18:03:34 on Sunday, 16 September
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