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2 unusual facts about Cider


Apple wine

Cider, a fermented alcoholic beverage made from apple juice

Herrljunga

Herrljunga is known for Herrljunga Cider, that as of 2005 has the largest market share of cider in daily stores with 16%.


Asturian people

Apple groves foster the production of the traditional alcoholic drink, a natural cider (sidra).

Blackthorn Cider

The cider is produced at the Gaymer Cider Company site on the A37 in Shepton Mallet (Mendip District, Somerset, England).

Chimayó Cocktail

The Chimayó cocktail was created by Arturo Jaramillo, owner of the Rancho de Chimayó restaurant in Chimayó, New Mexico in 1965, the Chimayó Cocktail is a tequila and apple cider based drink.

CIDER International School

CIDER is affiliated to the University of Cambridge International Examinations.

Cider Press Review

Cider Press Review was found in 1999 as a journal of contemporary poetry, by editors Caron Andregg and Robert Wynne.

Foxwhelp

This is one of the oldest surviving varieties of cider apple; it is first mentioned in John Evelyn's Advertisements Concerning Cider in his work Pomona of 1664, in which it is commented that "cider for strength ... is best made of the Fox-whelp of the Forest of Dean, but which comes not to be drunk until two or three years old".

Fromes Hill

The Bosbury Cider Festival draws upon Fromes Hill to provide the excellent cider produced and sold at the festival.

H. P. Bulmer

In 1889, his elder brother Fred (Edward Frederick Bulmer), coming down from King's College, Cambridge, turned down the offer of a post as tutor to the children of the King of Siam to join Percy in his fledgling cider business.

Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley

He is the father of Julian Temperley, creator of Somerset Cider Brandy, and grandfather of Alice Temperley, fashion designer of London.

Harper's Mill

The official name of the mill at Disneyland is Harper's Cider Mill and serves as part of the stage for the nighttime show Fantasmic!.

Harrison Cider Apple

In September 1976, a fruit variety collector from Vermont went in search of the Harrison and Campfield Cider Apples in the neighborhood of Orange Mountain in Essex County, New Jersey that Coxe had written about in 1817.

The Harrison Cider Apple was considered lost until it was recovered in Livingston, New Jersey at an old cider mill in September 1976.

Hatsukoi Cider / Deep Mind

The music video for "Hatsukoi Cider" features Hisako Tabuchi of the rock bands Bloodthirsty Butchers and Toddle on guitar.

Herefordshire Trail

The terrain varies from panoramic views at Harley's Mountain (376m, the highest point), Garway Hill Common (366m), and Merbach Hill (318m), and the hidden Golden Valley below the looming bulk of the Black Mountains, Wales, to the river valleys and Black and white villages trail passing through cider orchards and many of the lesser-known hidden places in the secret corners of this quiet county.

Ice cider

The first claim to commercial ice cider was in 1990 in Dunham, a small town in Québec just north of the Vermont border, by Christian Barthomeuf, a pioneer of Québec's small wine industry.

James Cranstoun, 8th Lord Cranstoun

He was appointed Governor of Grenada in 1796 but before taking up his appointment he died at Bishop's Waltham on 22 September that year, as a result of lead-poisoning in cider.

Mackintosh's

The business was purchased in 1918 by the African and Eastern Trading Company and underwent expansion at Norwich and mineral-water and cider factories in London, Ipswich, and Banham, Norfolk.

Merrydown

The very first batch of Merrydown Vintage Cider was fermented from 450 gallons of apple juice using a 300 year-old oak cider press borrowed from a local farmer and within a year the scale of production had outgrown Mr Ward's garage at his home in Rotherfield and the partners bought Horam Manor, with seven acres of land.

Remember Me/I Am a Cider Drinker

"Remember Me"/"I Am a Cider Drinker" was a split single released by British Sea Power and The Wurzels.

Reverend John Hancock

John Hancock House, Cider Mill and Cemetery, Florham Park, New Jersey, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey

Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival

The event was hosted at the Magna Centre, Rotherham and featured a selection of 230 different varieties of Real Ale as well as 80 different types of Cider, Wine, Perry (Pear Cider) and Lager.

Savanna Dry

Savanna Dry is produced from crushed apples grown in the Elgin Valley of the fertile Western Cape, and it is described as a clear, refreshing and dry tasting cider.

Scrumpy Jack

It was first produced in 1727 by Symonds Cider and English Wine Company of Stoke Lacy.

Sharp's Brewery

Orchard Cider (4.5% alcohol by volume) is a Cornish kegged cider manufactured in collaboration with Cornish Orchards in Duloe.

St Briavels

Today the Pavilions hold a very popular and well established monthly 'Local Produce and Suppliers Market', a local farmers' market offering a fine selection of organic vegetables, rare breed pedigree pork, award winning local cheeses, cider, wine, honey and a range of delicacies otherwise usual to London's specialists, Fortnum & Mason.

Wassailing

The West Country is the most famous and largest cider producing region of the country and some of the most important wassails are held annually in Carhampton and Dunster (Somerset) and Whimple (Devon), both on 17 January (old Twelfth Night).

West Coast Cooler

A Constable Shuffle can be made using 2 shots of peach schnapps with one shot of Galliano, half a pint of cider and half a large bottle of West Coast Cooler.


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