This post is a bit after the event but I've been busy. Well Beer on the Wye, the Hereford CAMRA event was very enjoyable again this year. There were 99 ciders available all from the county of Herefordshire, which just goes to show what a mecca for Cyder Herefordshire is. In the picture above is Roger's Jolly our offering this year. The same cyder appears in Beer the CAMRA publication in an article by Tom Stainer - Mick Lewis, CAMRA's long serving cider campaigner gives cyder tasting lessons and tries our cyder at the Cambridge Beer festival earlier this summer.
Anyway back to Beer on the Wye - Pat Pope from Herefordshire CAMRA asked me to do the perry tasting again this year. A job I am delighted ti perform as you can probably guess. The quality of the perries on offer were not as great as the year before. Many of them still tasted young and this may be due to the cold winter. In fact the other judges and I were convinced one was still fermenting!
One new cider of note I tried was Gryfter cider (below).
Among the other judges was Dave from Gryfter cider and his friend Charlie. That's Dave on the left.
Thanks again to Charlie for giving me a bed after far to much 'apple juice' and saving me from a precarious 6 mile cycle ride home! Hope to see them at the Ross Cider festival in September.
Herefordshire Cyder at Checkley Brook
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