Dec 12

If your cider drinker and love visiting the sites where its made here’s a few of the best cider farms around in somerset.

Thatchers Cider

Thatchers has made fine cider in Somerset for over 100 years. Crafted using freshly pressed English apples, many of their traditional ciders are based on authentic recipes and matured in oak. Today these complement the new, refreshingly different drinks in Thatchers’ award winning range.

Thatchers Cider have recnetly won the Bristol Evening Post Awards 2008 - Family Business of the Year. Others awards Thatchers have won include 2nd place for their dry, medium and Single Variety Cider in the Hereford International Cider Competition 2008, overall champion in the International Cider and Perry Competition 2007 and much more.

A trip to Thatchers’s Cider Farm is within easy reach from most of our hire centres taking:

Perry’s Cider

Nestled in the heart of the cider county of Somerset, Perry’s Cider have been producing award winning traditional ciders for over four generations.

All their ciders are pressed, fermented and bottled from real Somerset cider apples at the family farm, Dowlish Wake, Somerset and are free from artificial colours, flavours, sweeteners and concentrate.

Perry’s Cider are also the winners of the prestigious Royal Bath & West Supreme Champion Cider 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2005 Finalist of the ‘SomersetLife’ Food & Drink Awards for ‘Drinks Producer of the year’

A trip to Perrys’s Cider Farm is within easy reach from most of our hire centres taking:

Sheppy Cider

From the early 1800s, the Sheppy family has been making cider in the West Country, and from 1925 have been renowned for their quality ciders, which have gained, between them over 200 awards, and two gold medals.

Their proud to share with visitors from far and wide their beautiful farm and orchards, and to show you as much as possible of how and where they make their delicious ciders.

At Sheppy’s Cider farm they offer:

  • Cider shop
  • Cider Sampling
  • Museum with cidermaking video
  • Pre-booked guided tours
  • Orchard and farm walks
  • Licensed tea room
  • Picnic area
  • Children’s play area
  • Coach parties welcome
  • Free parking
  • All public buildings are suitable for the disabled

A trip to Sheppy’s Cider Farm is within easy reach from most of our hire centres taking: