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Hereford’s Bulmers , one of the world’s biggest cider producers, is celebrating 125 years in business.
Bulmers Cider is marking the milestone with events throughout the year, including the release of a limited edition brew inspired by the cider company founders Percy and Fred Bulmer were making more than 100 years ago.
In June, the Cider Museum in Hereford will be open for a free weekend and open a new exhibition charting the history and heritage of Bulmers.
Well, it seems like only a few days ago that we were visiting makers of sidra in Asturias. Wait a minute! It was only a few days ago…
Last night it was the turn of a delegation of representatives from the sidra industry around Gijon to make a tour of apfelwein makers here in Hessen, so once again, we found ourselves receiving the warm and enthusiastic hospitality of Kelterei Jörg Stier. Among the remarkably wide range of apfelweins that Stier produces is one that was a great hit with the crowd from Asturias: the Toro Loco apfelwein which is Stier’s Hessian homage to Spanish style sidra. To accompany the apfelwein was a wonderful selection of Hessian tapas all of which had a connection to apfelwein: from the apfelwein cured cheese, to the bread, to the apfelwein infused gummi bears. In addition, we were offered a taste of the fabulous new sparkling apple juices which Stier is currently producing, utilising combinations of speierling and apple, and cherry and apple. They’re superb.
The visit coincides with the Apfelwein im Römer event to be held in Frankfurt this weekend and the Asturians are just as fanatical about apfelwein/sidra/cider as the residents of Hessen.
One of the members of the Asturian delegation, Miguel Angel Garcia Otero, has a slightly unusual interest which is collecting the labels from bottles of “cider” in all its forms from all over the world. In fact we’ve encountered him before as he deftly swipes the labels from your bottle, almost before it leaves your hand! A catalogue of his collection of Asturian Sidra labels is available here: http://etiquetasdesidraasturiana.com/
There is nothing better! A hot Melbourne afternoon (38ºC), barbecued pork ribs, and apfelwein…!
People really loved the Speierling… nicely chilled it was perfect for the heat and with the ribs.
Thanks to Richard and Alex, and all the guys at Prince Wine Shop for putting on the hugely successful apfelwein tasting and for providing the ribs. 
We had a great time today at Melbourne’s National Trust house Rippon Lea. We had apples from the 150 year old orchards, some manpower on hand, and Max Allen to convince us that the age old English tradition of cider making—using straw to separate the layers of pomace—still has its place.
This is the first of a number of posts which I will be making over the coming weeks on the state of cider and apfelwein in Australia.
Well, that’s to say we’ll be speaking English as well as German and possibly Spanish, too.
All of us here are simply full of enthusiasm for apfelwein and this means pursuing everything that an apple and apfelwein can be. The notes, comments, and images that we post here are intended to deepen knowledge and share experiences, but also to enhance people’s sensitivity and sensory perceptions about apfelwein.
In the process, we’ve discovered that the journey leads us across various boundaries — linguistic, cultural, geographic — and this is an aspect of apfelwein which should be explored, deepened and celebrated. Apfelwein leads us away from home, but it can also be called home.
As we visit places, meet people, taste apfelwein and experience cultures and places we will bring that back here via words and images, and if we chance to meet in person, perhaps via a glass of apfelwein. And now… we’ll be doing it in English, too!
Frankfurts Apfelweinführer
Hessens Apfelweine
Frankfurter Apfelweinquartett
Buttons & Aufkleber
Wein aus Äpfeln
Der Apfelwein des Apfelweinblogs. Wir reden nicht nur darüber! Nach Jahren des darüber Schreibens, war die Zeit dafür reif, selbst einen Apfelwein zu machen. Seit Dezember 2010 auf dem Markt und schon zwei Auszeichnungen für das erste Produkt "Wein aus Äpfeln".
