Everything
the cider drinker needs - apart from a scrumpy jar!
Introduction
It's
always opening time at Old Scrump's Cider House!
Whether you're already an experienced cider drinker,
or you just want to find out what real cider and
perry is, then this is the website for you!
Old
Scrump's Cider House is an amalgamation of two
websites - Gillian Grafton's Real Cider
& Perry website and Paul Gunningham's
Scrumpy User Guide website
- and has been named such in memory of Paul
Gunningham (1951-2007) who used the pseudonym
'Old Scrump' when writing about cider.
I
look forward to working on the website to keep it
as one of the most valuable web resources for cider
& perry enthusiast. Any input from visitors would
be most welcome! If you have any feedback or suggestions,
please make contact.
If
you want to discuss real cider and perry and related
issues, why not try Old
Scrump's Forum? This is a forum for
people who are interested in real cider in the UK.
Feel free to leave your comments, advice, anecdotes
and questions.
Drink
up thy cider!
Frank
Blades
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On
This Website
The
Real Cider & Perry Page contains a wealth
of information about cider (made from apple
juice) and perry (made from pear juice) -
including:
New
Cider Farms
These
are the latest additions to Old Scrump's database
of cider farms
Fowlers Scrumpy Company - Devon
Indicknowle Traditional Farmhouse Cider - Devon
Breach Cider - Kent
Old Bill's Cider - Cambridgeshire
Hucknell Cider Co. - Nottinghamshire
Windmill Vineyard Cider - Northamptonshire
Eve's Cider - Northamptonshire
Stamford Cider (Stamford Juice Company) - Lincolnshire
Skidbrooke Cyder - Lincolnshire
Pear Tree Farm Cider & Perry - Herefordshire
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Cider
Events
A
selection of top cider-related events for
May; see the events list
for full details and loads more events:
- Thursday
30th April to Sunday 4th May 2009 - 15th
Reading Beer & Cider Festival
- Friday
1st to Monday 4th May 2009 - 5th
Blandford Beer Festival, Blandford
Forum, Dorset
- Saturday
2nd May 2009 - Cider and Perry Trials
2009 at Putley Village Hall, Herefordshire
- Sunday
3rd & Monday 4th May 2009 - The
Big Apple: Blossomtime at Putley
Village Hall, Herefordshire
- Sunday
3rd May 2009 - Scrumpy
and Western Day
at The Rising Sun, North
Bradley, Wiltshire
-
Wednesday 13th May 2009 - Cider
and Perry Competition at The
Cider Museum, Hereford
- Monday
18th to Friday 23rd May 2009 - 36th
Cambridge Beer Festival
- Sunday
24th May 2009 - Cider Sunday
at Foresters
Arms, Sandridge Road, y
26th to Saturday 30th May 2009 - 24th
Colchester Real Ale & Cider Festival
at Colchester Arts Centre
- Thursday
28th to Saturday 30th May 2009 - 23rd
Stockport Beer & Cider Festival
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About
Old
Scrump's Cider House
Old
Scrump's Cider House is an amalgamation of two
websites - Gillian Grafton's Real Cider
& Perry website and Paul Gunningham's
Scrumpy User Guide website.
 The
Real Cider & Perry
website (www.ciderandperry.co.uk) was created
in the early 1990s by cider and perry enthusiast
Gillian Grafton. It was one of the first - and is
still one most valuable - web resources for cider
and perry enthusiasts. Gillian created and maintained
the site herself until 1996 when, due to pressure
of work, she was unable to maintain it on an on-going
basis, and as a result the website became somewhat
out-of-date.
 In
1999, Wurzels fan and cider drinker Paul Gunningham
created his own cider website, The Scrumpy
User Guide (www.zider.co.uk).
This was written very much from the cider drinker's
point of view - more about buying, storing and drinking
cider than Gillian's more historical and scientific
point of view.
In
2003, Gillian was approached by Paul who asked what
her future plans were for the Real Cider &
Perry website. As luck would have it, Gillian
had been looking for a volunteer to take over the
maintenance of the website, and Paul got the job!
Paul planned to make no changes to the content except
those necessary to bring the site up-to-date.
Sadly
in 2007, Paul Gunningham was involved in a road
traffic accident, and died as a result of his injuries,
and both websites were passed onto a new editor,
Frank Blades of Somersetmade, a small multimedia
company just outside Bath.
After
running both website side-by-side for several months,
in March 2008 the decision was made to amalgamate
the two into one new website. This wasn't difficult,
as there was very little overlap between the websites,
and the two slotted into together quite easily.
This new website was called Old Scrump's Cider
House in memory of Paul Gunningham who used
the pseudonym 'Old Scrump' when writing about cider,
and will continue to be maintained with the goal
to make it
the premier online source of information concerning
cider and perry.
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