Leicester CAMRA Beer Festival 2015

Like the gridlock and panic of an English snow-flurry, the arrival of the Leicester CAMRA Beer & Cider festival is something we can both rely on, and sneak time off work for, every year without fail. For this we give thanks to the hard working organising committee, and small platoon of willing volunteers which make this annual jamboree run so smoothly, punctually, and most important of all, fragrantly.

It's all reassuringly similar to successful festivals of the past, details of which can be gleaned from the flyer reproduced here. Over there. On the right.

Top cider and perry enthusiast Susan has assembled a collection of fruit-based drinks any medium-sized rock festival would be proud of, including many sourced so close to Leicestershire, they could quite accurately be described as being from... well, Leicestershire. Surrounding counties are well represented too, with only poor old Warwickshire absent. And Staffordshire.

Exclusive early access to the cider and perry list is something I've come to rely on. Lord-knows I've got little else to blog about on here these days. And in time-honoured fashion, I've not hesitated in breaking the trust Susan has placed in me, by sharing everything I know with you the reader. So here it is, the 2015 Cider & Perry list, as usual, subject to change without notice or excuse.

UPDATE: Susan has 'finessed' the cider list, the latest version uploaded here. Some notable changes, including the sad loss of early-season Torkard which is so early-season it may still technically be apple juice!

Cider and perry 2015

Bottle Kicking, Hallaton, Leicestershire

Dry cider

Rambler medium cider 6%

Charnwood Cider, Leicestershire

Pure Charnwood medium Cider 5.6%

Apply Ave Another medium cider 5%

Disco Cox medium cider 5.6%

Gold medium cider 5.6%

Farmer Fear, Leics

Thirsty Farmer medium

Farmhouse strong medium

Jollydale, Lincs

Medium cider

Rockingham Forest, Northants

Home Orchard medium dry cider 7.4%

Malvern Hills medium perry 8.4%

Three Cats, Morley, Derbyshire

Medium sweet cider

Abrahall, Shropshire

Dry cider

Crackling Rosie perry

Barkers, Worcestershire

Medium dry cider

Cadogan, Gloucestershire

Medium cider  

Medium perry

Chant, Somerset

Singing cider

Chucklehead, Devon

Medium cider

Double Vision, kent

Sweet cider

Sweet perry

Green Valley, Devon

Medium Cider 6.8%

Grey’s Devon

Medium cider

Gwatkin, Herefords

Yarlington Mill cider

Farmhouse medium perry

Hecks, somerset

Port wine of Glastonbury

Blakeney Red perry

Heron Valley, Devon

Medium cider

Marshwood Vale, Dorset

Sweet cider

Olivers, herefordshire

Shezam  cider 6%

Medium perry 6%

Orchard, Gloucestershire

Medium cider

Ross, Herefordshire

Medium cider

Perry

Tricky, Somerset

Medium cider

Sweet cider

Ventons, Devon

Whisky cask cider

Westcroft, Somerset

Janet’s Jungle Juice

Winkleigh Cider co, Devon

Sam’s sweet

Sam’s dry

Worley’s, Somerset

Farmhouse medium cider