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This Friday (6.15 – 8.30), 20th June, at The Euston Cider Tap the first ever Battle of the Cidermakers will take place. Where a carefully selected team of cider makers from Dorset and Herefordshire will do battle. Each maker, will bring a selection of their very finest products to represent their county in a number of categories;…

A freezing cold Ageas Bowl was the scene and Hampshire were taking on Essex at the start of the new T20 season, with the hosts looking to continue their impressive form of reaching finals day every year since 2010. Of course we weren’t there for the cricket, but it made for a juicy extra to be pitched…

On the 1st May, Fetch The Drinks hosted their very own Cider Festival, Cider Fex, at the Shelley Theatre in Boscombe. Being our first event we were unsure what to expect. How many people would come? Have we chosen the right ciders? Has the event received enough publicity and most importantly will people enjoy it?…

The delivery team had a fantastic day yesterday, from collecting products from some of their local cider makers to delivering to festivals and pubs. Bexley Beer Festival, on this weekend from Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th, was the first stop where we dropped off a variety of 11 different ciders from our range. The Old…

Fetch the Drinks are extremely excited to now be working with Copse House Cider. The cider producer, based in Sandley, Dorset, is putting together a fantastic range of products while also restoring 300 acres of farmland on Kine Bush Farm. Their team are both enthusiastic and passionate about their project and we are thankful to be a…

Do you remember the “Hey…I’d love a Babycham” ad from the 70s and 80s?  Growing up then I had no idea what Babycham was, but it always seemed exotic, mysterious, cool and sexy (although still never drank it!).   However it’s only good old fashioned sweet sparkling perry that, like most commercial ciders and perrys,…

As physicist Isaac Newton realised while he was sitting in his garden many moons ago, apples like to fall out of their tree with gravity force. This law of nature is something that cider growers are all also acutely aware of. When cider apples hit the ground, the quality of the fruits is severely compromised….

The European Commission has formally requested that the UK amend an excise duty scheme that exempts from duty small producers of cider and perry. The UK exemption covers those producers that produce not more than 70 hectoliters of cider or perry over a period of 12 consecutive months and who make such products for sale.

New EU laws could force small cider producers to pay duty.   See the FT article here: ow.ly/JIJxo We need to ensure that small cider producers are supported and given as much publicity as small breweries.

The UK has about 1,300 breweries, the highest since the 1930s according to the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), even though people are drinking less. A fifth of adults now say they are teetotal and the proportion of young adults who drink frequently fell two-thirds between 2005 and 2013, according to the Office for National…