Inch's Apple Cider Can, 6x 4 x 440ml (24x440ml)

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But let’s return to real cider. Just like wine with grapes, the finished cider will be influenced by the variety of apple. The easiest way of categorising British styles is to focus on the type of apple used to produce the cider – cider apples or domestic eating and cooking apples. There is a vast difference between the two in the characteristics of the finished cider. Britain is one of the world’s leading producers of cider, with fifty-six percent of all the apples grown in the UK used to create it – so it’s no surprise that we also produce the most diverse range of styles. Cider has refreshed the palates of countless Britons for millennia, but if you asked a person in the street how cider is made they would invariably say that it was brewed. It’s not – cider is made by pressing apples and fermenting the juice, more akin to wine than beer. Jane was the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Britain's first Beer Sommelier of the Year. She is the instigator and driving force of the UK’s annual national beer day – Beer Day Britain (15 June 15). She is a former Imbibe Magazine Drinks Educator of the Year. For her beer work she was awarded the title Outstanding Individual Achievement in Beer from the Beer & Cider Marketing Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Britain’s All Party Parliamentary Beer Group. Jane Peyton is an award-winning beer sommelier, writer, broadcaster and founder of the School of Booze – a drinks consultancy and corporate events production company. For several years Jane has been an Ambassador for Friends of Glass, the consumer-facing arm of the British Glass Association. She is an ambassador for the smart phone app ‘Pint Please’ and the ‘Long Live The Local’ pub campaign.

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