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About Company
Cranes Ciders are handcrafted in Cambridge. They are now available purchase nationally throughout the UK, from Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Ocado and East of England Co-op.
We use the finest cranberries alongside the freshest British apples to deliver this refreshingly crisp cider.
To make a quality product you have to source quality ingredients. Therefore to ensure we use the finest fruit we visit where they grow, to meet the producers and to get a real understanding of what it takes to produce these beautiful fruits.
30% FEWER CALORIES
After relentlessly working on the recipe, we have crafted a naturally light drink by utilising the sweetness of the super fruits, resulting in 30% fewer calories and over 40% less sugar compared to brand leaders.
The evolution of Cranes.
Our love for Cranberries all started at a very young age. We were so undeniably sweet our mum felt it was logical to force feed us tart cranberries to balance it out.
OK, that’s a lie.
The truth is cranberries came into the picture later in life, whilst we were at university. It was the first time we had spent time apart.
I was up in Leeds and Ben down in Exeter. As many students do, we both enjoyed a drink. Ben was in the heart of the west country and enjoying the abundance of ciders they had to offer.
Whereas I was drinking anything I could get my hands on.
Cranberries being notoriously healthy, led me to those beautifully tart berries. In a bid to try and compensate for all the unhealthy drinking. Once Ben and I were reunited and finished discussing the copious amount of “studying” we had done, topics moved onto our new findings.
As twins do, we brought those two things together to form one and that was the birth of Cranes.
“AND THAT WAS THE BIRTH OF CRANES.” – DANIEL
Daniel has mentioned the birth of Cranes, so I’ll enlighten you to how it all started.
After graduation, we started fermenting cranberry cider in 5 litre demijohns. I couldn’t say how many attempts it took, but 8 months later the recipe was finally perfected.
Now we had a product, it was time to name it.
Full credit goes to our Dad, unfortunately this means we will never hear the end of it.
He did a spot of research and discovered that Cranberries were originally called ‘Crane-berries’ as the blossom of the cranberry vine resembled a crane’s head.
With the product named and recipe finalised we set ourselves the task of building our micro-brewery. Our uncle kindly offered his old barn rent free. (Cheers Tony!)
However, sometimes you pay for what you get and 7 months into our Micro-brewery functioning at full capacity we got flooded. Luckily, at that point our friend Sam had a vacant unit on his farm that we moved into, allowing us to dry off and expand.
In fact, it continues to be the location of our brewery now.
Ciders
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500ml Bottle and 330ml CanFOLLOW Cranes Raspberries & Pomegranates Cans ON
Cranes Raspberries & Pomegranates Cans
Sweet & delicious, It's basically the taste of summer
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500ml BottlesFOLLOW Cranes Blueberries & Apples Cider ON
Cranes Blueberries & Apples Cider
Beautiful natural blueberry combined with crisp apple flavours
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500ml BottlesCranes Premium Apple Cider
Medium dry cider using 100% fresh juice!
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500ml Bottles and 330ml cansFOLLOW Cranes Raspberries & Pomegranates Cider ON
Cranes Raspberries & Pomegranates Cider
Sweet and delicious, with a distinctive raspberry kick
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500ml BottlesCranes Premium Low Alcohol Apple Cider
At 0.5% alc, this is the perfect drink served over ice
At 4% alc, Cranes Ciders are the perfect fruity drink served over ice. Gluten Free and Vegan Friendly
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500ml BottlesFOLLOW Cranes Cranberries & Limes Cider ON
Cranes Cranberries & Limes Cider
A lovely crisp cider with cranberry and lime flavours
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500ml BottlesCranes Lemons & Kumquats Cider
Crafted using the freshest lemons and most perfectly ripe kumquats