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  With Ollie and Wilbur our canine companions safely aboard their crate in the hold – ready to guard our precious cargo (or try and break into it in Wilbur’s case!), we left the sunny, but rather chilly south, in our Fetch the Drinks van to visit some of our wonderful cider producers and stock…

We have a fantastic range of traditional craft ciders (with appropriate Halloween-themed names or logos!) from small artisan producers at our Halloween Cider Festival this Friday!  And if you liked them – all available to buy in 36-pint party-size bag in boxes on the Fetch The Drinks website. Cotswold Cider Company – No Brainer dry 6%…

Fascinating article by Jeff Alworth from All About Beer Magazine 17th February 2016 – copied in full.   The history of cider doesn’t involve much in the way of technical innovation until the 20th century. The biggest challenge for cidermakers has always been the juice—it is heavy and takes up huge amounts of space. Because apples ripen only…

Work is well underway with our great builder Louis, to create the perfect venue for sampling and enjoying … guess what?  Yes, CIDER, from all our wonderful producers across the country.  We are transforming what was the cider storage facility into a fantastic be-spoke wooden chalet for a cosy intimate space dedicated to sampling cider!   Even…

Following the antics of Wilbur’s last road trip – 15 hours in the front row with us – he (and Ollie his 6 year old canine companion) have been ‘promoted’ to the hold! Fear not there is light and ventilation and some rather tasty plywood! We will soon be taking possessions of a new crate…

  So why is this the best Halloween event to hang-out at this year?  Well, we’ve laid on all the perfect ingredients for the perfect night out – real cider, hog roast, foot-tapping dancing music, halloween fancy dress (optional – but why not when you can win a case of cider for the best dressed halloweener!?) and…

Fetch Cider Club is an exclusive on-line real cider members club.  With a monthly subscription of only £39.00 (including free delivery!) Fetch Cider Club members receive a MONTHLY mixed case of 12 x bottles (500 or 330 ml) of traditional craft cider or perry. We have just despatched our first ever mixed selection box to our members!  …

We have just come back from a flying visit to the West Country, catching up with our wonderful producers and collecting more delicious ciders on our first trip of the Autumn – and Wilbur, our 6 month old bundle of Labrador fun, came too! After some heavy traffic and a very inquisitive Wilbur, the first stop…

Having attended the event as customers for the past few years, The Great Dorset Steam Fair had always been a distant dream for the Fetch The Drinks team. However, this year it became reality, with only two months to go until the event we finally got the call, we were in! The Dorset Steam Fair…

Now the Ashes are back where they belong, the Pub & Bar magazine have put their own averages together to analyse the consistently improving performance of Cider. The data was collated by Cardinal, collecting opinions and data from customers, to create The Cider Report. Unlike many drinks, cider has an even split between men and…