8 years ago
Cider – Can vs Bottle
You walk into a shop, you see your favourite cider in a bottle and in a can? Which should you buy? I want to look at 2 aspects:
1. What is more environmentally friendly a Can vs Bottle? 2. Which tastes better Can vs Bottle?
8 years ago
Alpine Cider Pink Lady Dry
Alpine Cider and their Pink Lady Dry is another new entry to Australia’s growing cider market. However, they have been a force on the apple market for years. This apple orchard in the Victorian high country has been one of the biggest since the 1950’s.
8 years ago
Sweet Julie
Recently, at the Australian Cider Festival, I had a chat to Shane from Hillbilly Cider who introduced me to the best in class award-winning Sweet Julie Cider. This is the first cider to feature the new Australian apple BPN 02 or to give it its’ trade name “Julie”
New YouTube Channel
That’s right folks. Real Cider Reviews is going to be a little bit more vide-o-eee-ish? from now on. The reviews will still be there, but not they may be matched …
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8 years ago
2016 Australian Cider Awards Results
Watch out world. The Aussies are making kick ass ciders. At this year’s 2016 Australian Cider awards the quiet revolution was on show. You see these Aussie cider makers have been honing their skills with the limited palette of eating apples, but now, now the cider apple trees planted 4 years ago are starting to literally bare fruit. Like a photographer growing up with black and white film, suddenly there is colour. And It’s Awesome.
The Awards were presided over by the wine and cider writer Max Allen with the British cider writer Bill Bradshaw. The room is full of well-known Australian Craft Cider makers, a few newcomers and a few sponsors that provide the infrastructure to keep this industry running. The full results after break
8 years ago
Australian Cider Festival is on this Saturday!
An impressive 28 craft cider producers will showcase 112 different ciders at the 2016 Australian Cider Festival, being held in Melbourne this Saturday.
Over 1,000 people are expected to attend …
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8 years ago
Darkes Howler Cider
Recently I had the opportunity to have a tour around Darkes Orchard. Darkes Orchard is in the little town of Darkes Forest about an hour drive south of Sydney. I originally had planned to travel down there to learn about the Howler Cider but ended up learning so much more about the realities of running a commercial orchard.
8 years ago
Spreyton Cidermaker’s Select Vintage 2016
2 years ago I looked at the Spreyton Vintage 2014 and thought that it was a pretty decent cider with bags of potential. Spreyton Cider Co, stylistically, have been growing rapidly. Now they have released the Cidermaker’s Select Vintage Select 2016. Read More