Leicester Beer Festival 2007 - Cider Bar Report

The Cider Bar at the Leicester CAMRA Beer Festival has on occasions been a victim of its own success. Trying to estimate the quantity of cider and perry to order, so that everyone who visits the Festival has a good choice throughout the Festival, is always a difficult task. At this year’s Festival I believe we got things just about right, with around a dozen of the initial 30 draught ciders and perrys still available at opening time on the final day.

First to sell out was the ever popular Janet’s Jungle Juice from Somerset, producer West Croft Cider. As the old Westons advertising used to say, this cider sells through its name, but it is also a high quality cider from a well respected, award winning producer. The Heck’s Port Wine of Glastonbury and Broome Farm perrys were also very popular, with those fermented in Rum cask creating a great deal of interest.

New to the bar this year was the range of apple juices from the Stamford Juice Co. These high quality pure juices are pressed from old varieties of apples, sourced from heritage orchards in and around the Lincolnshire town of Stamford. They proved to be very popular and we aim to offer these rare treats again at next year’s festival.

I would like to thank all the volunteers who helped with the set-up of this years bar and, particularly, Julia Everett, Chris Gascoyne, Joanne, Paul & Susan Shirley and Peter Witting for their hard graft serving on the bar and good company throughout the festival.

Mark Shirley
Cider Bar Manager.

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