Somerset Cider Brandy
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Somerset Cider Brandy is an apple brandy made in Somerset, England that is compared favourably to French Calvados. The main producer is the Somerset Cider Brandy Company owned by Julian Temperley at Kingsbury Episcopi. Production started in 1987 as the first legal distilling in Somerset for 150 years, and in 1989 he received from HM Customs and Excise the first full cider-distilling licence in recorded history. In 2003 the company won the NFU Great British Food Award.
The distillation of cider brandy in Britain had previously existed in the 1670s, and seems to have been widespread at one time before it died out.
[edit] Further reading
- James Crowden, Cider: The Forgotten Miracle, Cyder Press Two (1999), ISBN 0-9537103-0-0 - includes the story of the early days of Somerset Cider Brandy
