Calling all cider drinkers - organic cider name

[Andy Hamilton]

My lady boss recently gave up drinking and has now started again and is loving it. She is desperatly trying to find a bottle of cider, no not one she has hidden, she can remember that it began with the letter A and is an organic cider. I could not help her as not much of a cider drinker.

[Mancblue]

Apple Juice

The only A i can find is Aspall, not sure if it's organic though.

[Stonehead]

I can think of two possibilities - Aspall or Ashgrove Orchards.

Aspall definitely do an organic cider. Ashgrove Orchards are not certified organic but are chemical free (no sprays or fertilisers).

Aspall's ciders are a bit commercial tasting - sweet, lacking the pronounced apple flavour of proper cider IMO and somewhat insipid. A bit like an alcopop. Spit!

Ashgrove's on the other hand are proper craft ciders - full of body, taste and lots of apple flavours.

[thebristolbloke]

The only one I can think of (as an ex-ciderhead) is Addlestones, send her up to the Cotham Porter Stores or the Coronation Tap mate - someone up there will know

take care


phil

[Dave]

If it's a Bristol/West Country cider then it could be Ashton Press. Not sure if it's organic but it does the job.

[Dave]

send her up to the Cotham Porter Stores or the Coronation Tap mate

I over-looked that post - The Corry Tap is notorious, the cider's they sell there are lethal. There's one called Chedder Valley, I first had it at the Winbourne Folk Festival down in Dorset. It looks like orangade or Mr Sheen - the Thatchers website can't put an exact percentage on it so it can be anything from 6 - 14%. You know about it if you have a couple of them. Needless to say the pub's very popular amongt students.
Where's the Cotham Porter Stores - I'm guessing Cotham but whereabouts - I've not come across it.

[thebristolbloke]

Just off Cotham Brow mate, go up Saint Michaels Hill, take a right to go up Horfield Road and then at the top of the hill (imagine you were going towards the Gloucester road) it becomes Cotham Brow. It's a tiny place in the small rank of shops by Kingsdown Leisure centre.

http://www.cothamporterstores.co.uk/default.htm

I used to be a regular in both pubs and Cheddar Valley was my tipple of choice. Cloudy? If you could see through it then you knew it was a bad pint. The abv of it was dependent on the temperature and you knew when you'd had a pint from "the magic barrel"

I gave up Cider when I realised that I was going to a funeral a month for three months on the trot, i'd be drinking with a bloke one week then going to his funeral the next. It's seriously bad stuff for you, I still bump into some of the lads and most of them have had heart bypasses, stomach operations etc.

They still keep on drinking the cider though


take care



phil