The festival will take place at S. Fowlers & Co. in Union Street, Ryde and The Man in the Moon in St James Street, Newport, from Friday 8th July until Sunday 24th July inclusive.
The pubs will each serve up to 25 ciders including some not previously available in the pubs and others produced exclusively for the festival. They will be available from £2.79 to £2.95 a pint.
The festival selection will feature apple, pear and fruit ciders. They include award-winning ciders, a cider made with sloe berries, a cider matured in oak vats, a cider flavoured with mango and another with damson as well as strawberry, raspberry and blackcurrant cider.
Among those on offer are: Fruit Bat (Snails Bank); Monkey Mango (Cockeyed Cider Company); Cidre Normandie (La Ferme de Billy); Dark Cider the Moon (Orchard Pig); Midnight Special Perry (Mr Whitehead’s); Tempted Sweet Irish Craft Cider (Tempted Cider); Muddy Scamp (Purbeck Cider Company) and Red Hen (Worley’s).
In addition, the pubs will be serving Down Down cider (produced by Celtic Marches) in collaboration with rock group Status Quo, Texan style Cornish hard cider (Healeys) and Friels Vintage, the first vintage cider crafted with juice from traditional English eating apple varieties (Aston Manor).
Fowlers & Co. manager, Neil Longley, said:
“S. Fowlers & Co. will be offering a superb selection of ciders during the 17 day festival. We are confident that they will appeal to cider lovers and those enjoying cider for the first time.”
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Customers can enjoy 3 one-third pint of ciders for the price of a pint. Tasting notes on all of the ciders will be available at the pubs.
