Whisky cask ciders – perfect for cold January evenings & Burns Night

The Labour party is considering proposing a new cheap cider tax and increasing the minimum amount of apple juice required to be in cider.  That’s good news as far as I’m concerned as commercial cider often has only the 30% apple juice it is required to contain by law.  Craft cider makers use 100% juice….

  Well it may not be a league table we should be overly proud of, but surely we Brits can do better than this…?! The country that consumes the most beer per head is the Czech Republic with 143 litres of the stuff consumed per person. In total – not surprisingly some would say –…

This recipe uses ingredients most of us keep on hand, such as canned chickpeas, tomato sauce, onions, garlic and a handful of raisins for a little sweetness. This stew comes together in an unceremonious chop ‘n’ dump kind of way, but the leisurely simmer in the slow-cooker transforms it into something very special indeed.

Fruit cider is still driving growth in the cider market while pear and apple struggle, the latest Nielsen figures have revealed, which also stated that the off-trade cider market grew 3.3% in the year to September 2013. That growth was fuelled by the fruit cider category which grew 35% to £245.7 million, boosting its share of…

  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…