April has been a good month! Not only is it British Cider Week, the sun is shining, cider is flying out the door and at the beginning of the month we got to go to one of my favourite events of the year - CraftCon.   CraftCon is the only UK conference dedicated to...

Happy International Women's Day 2023 Over the past few years we've seen a growing presence of cider women producers, growers and cider advocates. Cider Women is now a growing network which all started in 2019 when a group of cider makers got together at #CraftCon the...

  We are excited to announce the **NEW RELEASE** and first ever cider from our Cambridgeshire orchard 'TREES ARE GOOD' 'Trees Are Good' is a late orchard blend using apples from our Oakington Orchard, Cambridgeshire. We planted up this orchard 9 years ago, and in...

Emma from Blue Barrel Cider finds herself pondering Blue Barrel’s identity and questions what is it that gives cider its identity.   Cider making differs across the board from large national commercial ciders through to smaller full juice craft cider producers,...

The Blue Barrel story (so far) – and our next chapter…   Nottingham has given us so much.   Over a decade ago, we began scrumping apples around Clifton, particularly at Summerwood Community Garden which always supported our cider-making journey. Soon, we were...

The other day I was stoked to be invited to join Debbie and Amy for the Women Who Create UK Podcast, named one of the top 5 podcasts in the UK for women in business! We spent the afternoon getting a bit giddy on life (and cider) as we realised it was the first face to...

This week Cider Review published a brilliant article which sums up why orchards are so important and wonderful in more ways than one. You can read this article here As James, the Cider Critic so beautifully articulates, orchards are not solely places to harvest fruit...