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Free Delivery on Union Jack Pack
Date added: 24th April 2012
FREE Delivery To Your Door For Summer 2012 Celebrations Summer 2012 is a British celebration so the very patriotic Twisted Cider has decided to 'WAIVE the flag & delivery' on a special Union Jack British cider pack. Adding a very Apple'ing dimension to your street & garden parties, the Union Jack Pack is well balanced case of bespok...Posted by: Ben
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Twisted Ciders After Party
Date added: 19th February 2012
As you may well know on the 11th March 2012 Twisted Cider will be running the Bath half marathon carrying a full cider press in order to raise money for Cancer Research: http://www.runningsponsorme.org/twistedcider. Once the race has been run, we are looking forward to meeting up with all our supporters and thanking them for their sponso...Posted by: Ben
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Another Goodbye, for now...
Date added: 30th January 2012
The time has come again to say goodbye to another member of the Twisted Cider family. However this one will be back!!! Daniel Chisholm is off to travel Australia for the next year, and we would like to wish him all the best in his adventure. Over the past year Dan has been almost ever present in helping us at events. You may have se...Posted by: Ben
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Time to go Wassailing!
Date added: 13th January 2012
"Apple tree, apple tree, we all come to wassail thee, Bear this year and next year to bloom and to blow, Hat fulls, cap fulls, three cornered sack fulls, Hip, Hip, Hip, hurrah, Holler boys, holler hurrah." This rhyme will be sung by us Twisted Cider Bunch down in our Orchards following the old tradition of singing and drinking, which ...Posted by: Ben
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New Delivery Price for Online Orders!
Date added: 10th January 2012
Twisted Cider enjoyed watching our customers take advantage of our Three Months Free Delivery promotion at the end of 2011. So much so that we felt it would be wrong to put our original courier costs back in place and have decided to give a little more by lowering the cost to you. With courier costs lowered from 6.99 to only 4.99 p...Posted by: Ben
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New Ciders to Buy Online
Date added: 29th November 2011
Cornish Orchard is on its way! Twisted Cider has been back on the road looking for some new Ciders to replace our recent departures. Twisted Cider first sampled Cornish Orchards Ciders roughly one year ago. Straight away we decided we wanted to represent their company and sell their delicious ciders. So this year, after their bottles ...Posted by: Ben
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Warm yourself up with Mulled Cider
Date added: 23rd November 2011
Whilst training for the marathon on our morning jog I felt a difference in temperature which was confirmed by the numbness in my hands wishing I had bought some gloves. Now this got us thinking is winter finally here? Are we going to get a white Christmas after all? Well we're not sure about the white Christmas but winter does seem t...Posted by: Ben
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The Rise of Cider.
Date added: 19th November 2011
How Adding New Flavours to the Traditional Drink gave it a New Lease of Life. Cider has long been a much loved drink in Britain, but after a lull in its popularity, cider has re-established itself as a major alcoholic beverage in the UK. This is a result of canny marketing and the introduction of fruit based ciders to the market. The...Posted by: Ben
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Racking Off
Date added: 11th November 2011
Racking off is the process of moving the cider from one vat into another, in order to leave behind the sediment and yeast, so the cider can mature to a full flavour. It has been little over a month since we finished pressing this harvests apples and after a *brief tasting session, along with a more scientific reading, we decided that t...Posted by: Ben
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Goodbye to Alex and Jimmy.
Date added: 7th November 2011
In October, Twisted Cider returned to Dorset from the big smoke to make next year's batch of cider. If you've seen the photos then you will have noticed that we had a little bit of help from our friends. These friends included a pair of Australians - Alex 'Binksy' Corley and James 'Jimmy' Graham. Hailing from a land of lager and wine,...Posted by: Ben
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Sold Out!!! For Now...
Date added: 4th November 2011
After releasing a trial run of our very own Twisted Cider earlier this year, we can confirm that it has sold out!!! Back in early 2011 we brewed two ciders. One was a traditional, unfiltered 'misty' cider. The other, a limited edition watermelon cider, especially created after winning a poll on our Facebook fan page and we're proud t...Posted by: Ben
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Apple Day at Damerham.
Date added: 25th October 2011
Twisted Cider has never taken part in an event solely dedicated to Apple Day before and when the lovely people of Damerham asked if we would attend their and sell cider it didn’t take long to reach a decision. Having never been to Damerham some investigation was required to determine where it was and how long it would take to get the...
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Cheese and Wine Festival Revealed.
Date added: 17th October 2011
Turning up on site Friday Morning at 7.30am you could feel a slight buzz in the air. There is always a mixture between anxiety and excitement when you first arrive at an event which you have never done before, much like turning up for an interview for a job. You don't really know how well you have done or how you have been received ...Posted by: Ben
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Another Year Done.
Date added: 11th October 2011
You know the feeling when you're faced with a mammoth project and the deadline is just around the corner, well that is how we felt last week when we came back to our Farm in Dorset to press 3000 litres of delicious cider the old school way. Over 6 tonnes of apples were pressed by hand in the end and with some rough calculations we wor...Posted by: Ben
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Almost There.
Date added: 10th October 2011
Another day and another tonne and a half done. It started out quite slow this morning with four presses being completed by a solo mission but a helping hand arrived in the afternoon to take over the laborious work of shovelling and washing the apples. Starting off with the apples from our young orchard, just under a tonne was collecte...Posted by: Ben
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The Weekend.
Date added: 10th October 2011
Work was put to a standstill Saturday morning whilst the big four northern hemisphere teams battled it out in the Rugby World Cup for a place in the semi-finals. Congratulations to the winning teams and commiserations for those who never made it. Vat number two was soon filling up thanks to the help from some friends who normally spend...Posted by: Ben
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Half day for Cider Making.
Date added: 8th October 2011
Being a Friday most of the team had better things to do so only one volunteer turned up and could only stay to 1300. This did not stop the enthusiasm though as we still got a good three presses done and cleaned the cider shed + barn ready for the weekend. Tomorrow is bringing a new boost as 4 new volunteers are turning up for the w...Posted by: Ben
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First VAT filled!
Date added: 6th October 2011
The challenge of pressing another 750 litres was completed on day 2 of the harvest though it did take until 2100. At 0800 two of the dedicated Twisted Cider crew showed up ready for work closely followed by volunteer number three, so the four of us set out and a good start to the day it was. One to shovel the apples into the water, on...Posted by: Ben
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Harvest Time!
Date added: 5th October 2011
The trip back to Dorset took place late last night to our farm ready for a good days pressing and that is exactly what we done today. Our target this year is to extract 3000 litre of apple juice from 5 tonnes of cider apples collected from our orchards and family members who wanted to help out.....plus our local cider apple orchard f...Posted by: Ben
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Cider Sun
Date added: 29th September 2011
Did you look outside your window this morning and think it was August???? We didn't either as the weather in August wasn't anywhere near as good. This freak Cider Weather is predicting Highs of 28 Degrees Celsius over the weekend in some parts of the UK and if you check out the 10 day weather forecast it's all good. So this is ...Posted by: Ben
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Goodbye Caxton Club
Date added: 20th September 2011
Twisted Cider had the honourable task of throwing a cider night at the Caxton Club for their last ever Quiz night. For over two decades the Caxton Club has been serving Civil Servants as a place to retire after work and have few social drinks with friends. Over the past few years though and like so many other outlets, trade has dwindled...Posted by: Ben
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Cider and Cheese
Date added: 17th September 2011
Cheese and Cider. Summer may be almost over, and the barbeques may be heading back into the shed, but that doesn't mean your cider bottles should be gathering dust as well. Because of its range of tastes - sweet, medium and dry and with the emergence of different flavours, cider compliments a whole range of foods. So let the ice mel...Posted by: Jackson
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Victory for Somerset Cider Brandy!
Date added: 15th September 2011
Cider Brady can be dated back to 1678 and has been produced at Burrow Hill for many years. Burrow Hill/Somerset Cider Brandy will be celebrating a glorious victory seeing the end to a lengthy battle with Europe after achieving legal protection from the European Commission for their Cider Brandy. This ruling has the same protection rights...Posted by: Ben
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Twisted Cider's Misty Cider
Date added: 11th August 2011
Twisted Cider planted their first Apple & Pear trees in 2007 in the picturesque farmlands surrounding the tiny village of Longburton in the beautiful county of Dorset. Knowing that the finest cider comes from a good mixture of Sweets, Bittersweets, Sharps & Bittersharps we decided to plant the following varieties: Broxwood Foxw...Posted by: Ben
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Wholesale The UK's Finest
Date added: 20th May 2011
If you own or run an outlet and want to stock delicious bottled ciders from Farmhouse House producers around the UK which are not commercially available nationwide then contact us. We will arrange and host a FREE CIDER tasting session for you, your staff and customers, giving you first hand marketing research in knowing what Ciders wil...Posted by: Ben
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We are for Hire!
Date added: 15th February 2011
Twisted Cider wants to expand.................... We are looking to you to get us involved with 2011 events you may be planning or know are being planned. Twisted Cider is expanding its service's so if you're having a wedding why not have a Cider bar. If you're holding a private function/party why not have a Cider bar. If yo...Posted by: Ben
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