Real Cider & Perry
What is Real Cider
CAMRA defines real Cider or Perry as being fermented from the whole juice of fresh pressed apples or pears, without the use of concentrated or chaptalised juices. ... In order to be real, cider and perry should never be concentrated then diluted – either in terms of the juice used, or the alcohol content.
Chaptalisation, named after its French originator Jean Antoine Chaptal, is where sugar is added to grape or apple juice prior to fermentation, in order to enrich the juice and achieve a higher level of potential alcohol.
Explore the Real Cider and Perry World
See https://wb.camra.org.uk/2022/10/05/explore-the-real-cider-and-perry-world.
CAMRA contacted as many cider and perry producers as possible to confirm their production processes and generated a list of makers complying with the definition. This is available as a map or as a downloadable list. These are available on the CAMRA website (https://camra.org.uk/beer-and-cider/cider/promoting-real-cider-and-perry/) and the map is a living document that is regularly updated.
Find out more about Cider
Here you can learn more about cider, how it’s made, matured and served to you. Featuring regularly updated content on everything from cider styles, the benefits of cider on your health, cider quality (is your pint ok?) and real cider dispense; how you can tell whether what you’re drinking is live cider or not based on simple pointers that help you make more informed choices at the bar: https://camra.org.uk/learn-discover/learn-more/learn-more-about-cider.
Cider and Perry Producers around Bristol
See https://camra.org.uk/producers/place/bristol-2471
Bristol & District CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2025
The Bristol & District CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2025 is The Orchard Inn. This pub has won the award for the third consecutive year and is recognized for its commitment to serving real West Country cider and perry.
https://camra.org.uk/pubs/orchard-inn-bristol-114074
The Runner-Up for Bristol & District branch Cider Pub of the Year 2025
The Runner-Up for Bristol & District branch Cider Pub of the Year 2025 is The Black Cat in Weston-Super-Mare. See https://camra.org.uk/pubs/black-cat-weston-super-mare-117143.
A popular micropub in a former clothes shop across the road from the Playhouse Theatre and adjacent to the main entrance of picturesque Grove Park, with a wonderful black cat mural reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe. The pub majors on quality craft keg beers but also serves up to four cask ales plus up to 30 ciders, which are selected to comply with the CAMRA definition of 'real' cider, including keeved cider, perries and apfelweins.
135 High Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1HN.
Somerset CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2025
Pebbles Tavern, in Watchet, has been announced as CAMRA's Somerset Cider pub of the year for 2025.
This small tavern has won numerous CAMRA awards for Cider Pub of the Year since 2014. In 2015 and 2022, it was the 'runner-up' National Cider Pub of the Year. As well as the ales, there can be up to 30 ciders, 60 gins, 24 rums and 64 whiskeys.
See https://camra.org.uk/pubs/pebbles-tavern-watchet-134690.
National CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2025
This week (03/10/2025) we announced our Cider and Perry Pub of the Year winner, very well done Blackfriars Tavern in Great Yarmouth. The pub is a more than deserving winner with an amazing 20 locally sourced real ciders available, with even more available from further afield. Read more here. Blackfriars Tavern is also our East Anglian Pub of the Year and is in the running for the overall title. See https://camra.org.uk/pubs/blackfriars-tavern-great-yarmouth-159350.
https://camra.org.uk/awards/cider-pub-of-the-year?selected_year=2025.
Bristol Cider Club
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