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Stonewell Rós Stockists
Stonewell Rós Apple & Rhubarb Stockists Our Apple and Rhubarb Cider Stonewell Rós is back with a splash, fresh from Gold for the Best Fruit Flavoured cider in the International Cider Awards in London! We have been refining our Rós blend since we started making it 3 years ago...
Read MoreStonewell Non-Alcoholic Cider Stockists
Stonewell 0% – Non-Alcoholic Cider Times change and so do we! Sometimes by principle or circumstance it’s better not to consume alcohol. Traditionally we’ve been an alcoholic beverage maker, namely cider. So in order for to us to produce a non-alcoholic beverage we’ve had to go back to the...
Read MoreCiderCon – Stop Press!
Hyperbole isn’t adequate enough to describe the buzz coming out of my first CiderCon Cider Share. As you will see from the photos this is a large room lined with ciders and their makers from across the USA and overseas. It is what it says, namely a forum for...
Read MoreCiderCon Part 2
I discovered to my astonishment that there are over 1,100 attendees at CiderCon. Which explains the need for such a massive hotel here in Chicago, all 1,500 rooms and 25 floors; built in 1926 there are parts of it where you can imagine the gun toting gangsters swaggering around...
Read MoreCiderCon – The First Instalment
CiderCon is an annual shindig organised by the United States Association of Cider Makers (USACM) in the USA. This year it is taking place in the Windy City, Chicago. So, what’s a small Irish cider maker doing over here? Well, I was told it was a place to learn,...
Read MoreTawny Stockists
A truly specialist cider, Tawny is a rich, opulent and viscous cider, dark in colour and possessing complex bittersweet flavours. Tawny can be consumed as a slightly chilled aperitif, as an accompaniment to cheese or desserts or if your feeling adventurous as an ingredient in one of your favourite...
Read MoreStonewell Rós Stockists
Our limited edition apple and rhubarb cider Stonewell Rós won the prestigious Supreme Champion, Best in Ireland Award at the Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards in Dingle in 2016 followed by a Silver Award last year! Following on from our success in Dingle and subsequently selling out last...
Read MoreStretching the Legs in Frankfurt
The annual pilgrimage to the Apfelwein Weltweit Messe (Worldwide Apple wine Festival) in Frankfurt was dutifully attended last weekend. This is our 3rd return and as such we finally came prepared! Petty cash, signage and enough German speakers. Great Europeans the Germans might be but speaking anything other than...
Read MoreFlipping French Pancakes
I hear it’s icy cold with wintery showers at home. Here in Caen, it’s a little less cold but the stuff falling out of the sky reminds me a little of the old sod. But how bad? To be in the world’s centre of pancakes for Shrove Tuesday! One...
Read MoreFlit to France
Sometimes one has to make exceptional sacrifices for one’s passion. A quick client meeting in Paris obliged me to make a visit to Ackerman. Ackerman, a French business established in 1811, one of the giants in French wine making. It was primarily a fact finding mission, to visit one...
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