Real cider-drinking Elves and Dwarves everywhere may rejoice, for once again the wizard of Middleton can (as if by magic) break the joyous news a full month ahead of Durin's Day.....
Enough of this Hobitty nonsense, here's the list, subject as ever to minor change. Rumours that the cider bar has been renamed the Prancing Pony this year are of course entirely unfounded, though not impossible:
Leicestershire and East Midlands
Bottle Kicking Leicestershire
Scrummage 6.5%
Rambler 6%
Charnwood Leicestershire
Appley ‘Ave Another 5.6%
Disco Cox 5.6%
Cocky Fox 5.5%
Farmer Fear Leicestershire
Medium 5.5%
Dry 5.5%
Fynsburys Rutland
Cider
Gladstone Leicestershire
101 dry cider
Rockingham Forest Northamptonshire
Dabinett cider 6.6%
Saxby’s Northamptonshire
Medium 5.4%
Limited Edition 6.5%
Skidbrooke Lincolnshire
Medium cider
Others
Apple County Monmouthshire
Medium dry cider
Barkers Worcestershire
perry?
Berriews Powys
organic cider
Biddenden Kent
Cider 8.3%
Broome Farm Herefordshire
Perry 5.5%
Burrow Hill Somerset
Medium cider 6%
Cadogan Gloucestershire
perry 5.5%
Green valley Devon
vintage dry 8.3%
Greys Devon
medium cider 6%
Gwatkin Herefordshire
Farmhouse perry 7%
Golden Valley perry
Gwynt y Ddraig Glamorgan
Two Trees perry 4.5%
Heron valley Devon
cider 6%
Hunts Devon
Mary Maude’s medium cider 6%
Marshwood Vale Dorset
Yarlington Mill cider
Millwhites Somerset
Rum cask cider
Nempnett Somerset
Somerset Redstreak cider 6%
Norburys Worcestershire
Medium sweet cider 7%
Olivers Herefordshire
medium cider
perry
2 perry ?
Rich’s Somerset
Legbender cider 6%
Seacider Sussex
Medium cider 4.6%
Hardcore 7.3%
Ty Gwyn Monmouthshire
Brown’s Apple cider 6.5%
Ventons Devon
whiskey cask cider
Westcroft Somerset
Janet’s Jungle Juice 6.5%
Worley’s Somerset
Cider