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Bushel+Peck CIDER DONE SIMPLY
HERE’S HOW WE CHOOSE TO DO THINGS:
Only FRESHLY PRESSED juice. Only UNSPRAYED fruit. Only fruit from TRADITIONAL ORCHARDS or from the GARDENS of Gloucestershire
COLOUR CODED CIDER
Too often, cider is simply categorised as SWEET, MEDIUM or DRY … which overlooks the importance of the vital ingredient – apples. Different apples have different characteristics and produce different ciders, but with over 2,500 apple varieties in the UK alone understanding what’s what could be something of a minefield, so we’ve developed a simple BUSHEL+PECK colour coding system to help you navigate your way. It applies to all our ciders – core range, 500ml Limited Editions and 750ml Limited Editions.
Green labels mean FRESH+CRISP cider, made with eating apples (with perhaps a few cookers); generally simple, refreshing, crisp ciders, but perhaps with some hidden, lingering complexity, for example with our 750ml Cambridge Quoining Limited Edition.
Red labels mean RICH+MELLOW cider, made with cider apples; typical West Country cider, generally with some tannic “oomph”, more complex flavour profiles and some astringency.
Yellow / orange labels mean SMOOTH+SUBTLE perry; generally more refined, with delicate, fruitful flavours and a precise acidic twang. Perry is England’s native wine, often misunderstood and overlooked.
Purple labels mean SLOW+EASY cider, generally made with a blend of eating and cider apples, or with an apple that we think combines those characteristics, such as Brown’s apple. The ciders are refreshing with some understated tannic, astringent flavour.
CIDER DONE LOCALLY
We use surplus fruit from local gardens to make our cider – we give free juice or cider in return for apples. Using local surplus apples means less waste, lower food miles, using what’s available locally. Gardens are also an excellent source of unsprayed fruit. We gather fruit from all over the county, from the heights of the Cotswolds in the east to the rolling hills and valleys of the Forest of Dean in the west and the low lying Severn Vale in between. Bushel+Peck is Gloucestershire … bottled.
Ciders
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FRESH+CRISP medium dry cider, made with eating apples, so typical of the way cider is made in the eastern cider-making counties of Kent, Sussex and in East Anglia, etc.
RICH+MELLOW medium dry cider, made with cider apples, so a typical West Country cider, with more complex and astringent flavours.
SMOOTH+SUBTLE medium dry perry, made with a blend of perry pears, with a softer, more delicate flavour profile than cider.
SLOW+EASY medium cider, a blend of ciders made with eating apples and cider apples and given time to mature for a little longer; it has the crisp zestiness of FRESH+CRISP cider blended with the lingering flavour of RICH+MELLOW cider.
AVAILABLE IN
500ml BottlesBushel + Peck 500ml Core Range
Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout
Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout.
Bushel + Peck The Gribble (Yarlington Mill single variety cider) with its rich, sumptuous flavours would be a good companion to slow-cooked stews and casseroles, or to sip (generously) with full-flavoured cheese. We suggest you drink this it at ambient temperature so you can savour all that Yarlington Mill apples have to offer. Wild fermented, bottle conditioned, 6.5% ABVDabinette: Dabinett SVC, medium cider, 6.5% ABV
The Colonel: Ashmead’s Kernel SVC
The Colonel: Ashmead’s Kernel SVC, cask matured, bottle conditioned
The Dapper Apple: Brown’s SVC
Bristle: single city (Bristol) dry cider
Chedworth Gold; single village (Chedworth) cider, bottle conditioned
Delicious, Golden: Golden Delicious SVC, bottle conditioned
AVAILABLE IN
500ml BottlesBushel + Peck 500ml Limited Edition Range
Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout
Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout.
Most of our 750ml Bottle Conditioned and Pétillant Naturel ciders are wild fermented and some are aged in old bourbon barrels. Typically, we’ll make between 150 - 400 bottles of each Limited Edition. Bushel + Peck The Gribble (Yarlington Mill single variety cider) with its rich, sumptuous flavours would be a good companion to slow-cooked stews and casseroles, or to sip (generously) with full-flavoured cheese. We suggest you drink this it at ambient temperature so you can savour all that Yarlington Mill apples have to offer. Wild fermented, bottle conditioned, 6.5% ABVBushel + Peck Dabinett: Dabinett single variety cider; wild fermented, bottle conditioned, 6.0% ABV
Bushel + Peck The Privateer: Kingston Black single variety cider; wild fermented, pétillant naturel, 6.4% ABV
Bushel + Peck The Dapper Apple: Brown’s single variety cider; wild fermented, pétillant naturel, 6.0% ABV
Bushel + Peck The Juggler: Balls’ Bittersweet single variety cider; wild fermented, bottle conditioned, 5.6% ABV
Bushel + Peck The Colonel: Ashmead’s Kernel single variety cider; wild fermented, cask matured, bottle conditioned, 7.8% ABV
Bushel + Peck Cambridge Quoining (and friends); Gloucestershire heritage apples; Wild Fermented, Oak Matured, Bottle Conditioned. 7.0% ABV
Bushel + Peck The Avenue: Thorn & Barland perry; wild fermented, bottle conditioned, 5.5% ABV
AVAILABLE IN
750ml BottlesFOLLOW Bushel + Peck 750ml bottle conditioned and pétillant naturel Limited Edition Range ON
Bushel + Peck 750ml bottle conditioned and pétillant naturel Limited Edition Range
Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout
Our table cider and perry. Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout.
Bushel + Peck The Gribble (Yarlington Mill single variety cider) with its rich, sumptuous flavours would be a good companion to slow-cooked stews and casseroles, or to sip (generously) with full-flavoured cheese. We suggest you drink this it at ambient temperature so you can savour all that Yarlington Mill apples have to offer.Bushel + Peck Courtesan (Painted Lady single variety perry)
Both perries are light, bright and breezy, with the natural sweetness of pears balanced with some acidity. Neither has great tannic “oomph” but both are - in our humble opinion - excellent table perries.
Bushel + Peck Pathfinder (blended perry made with early season perry pears)
“Pathfinder” is so called as it’s made with the first pears we pick, all from one orchard in Great Washbourne, in the very north of Gloucestershire, mere metres away from Worcestershire. “Courtesan” is a single variety perry, made from an attractive - and quite rare - pear called Painted Lady, all the fruit picked form a single tree in an orchard just a mile outside Winchcombe, our home town.
AVAILABLE IN
750ml BottlesBushel + Peck 750ml Still Limited Edition Range
Create your own mixed case, selecting the quantities you'd like of each variety at checkout