Making hay while the sun shines: Cider Salon 2026
Bea reports back on the highlights of the Bristol Cider Salon 2026, with delights from familiar faces, and new.
Author: Beatrix Swanson
The Lady & the Cornish Giant: Investigating Colloggett Pippin
All about a most useful Cornish cider apple.
On a lane in spring: Artistraw’s 2025 solstice collection a year on
Bea reflects on her time living in Cornwall, with pastoral walks and seasonal changes, and how Artistraw’s summer solstice cider releases encapsulated those passing seasons.
Cider Salon comes to Hungary
Bea reports on the inaugural Hungarian Cider Salon, held in Pécs in April.
The Pulse of the Orchard at Trentino’s Apple Blood
Bea visits Trentino’s Apple Blood cidery, where Federico Pedrolli is putting a new spin on his family’s farm and the apple-growing practices of this northern Italian region.
Quince Revisited
Bea revisits quince, speaking with the ‘Prince of Quince’, Brandon Buza, before tasting through a set of quince creations from three distinct regions.
A 2025 CiderCon Diary
Beatrix lets us peek into her diary, as she navigates a week around CiderCon 2025.
Tasty, brutish and short – A snapshot of Swedish cider with Brutes
A trip to Sweden gives Beatrix the opportunity to do some local cider tourism
Meet the Ambassadors: Lunch with Pom Cider
Beatrix heads to the capital to meet one of London’s newest cidermakers.
A Berlin Cider Crawl
In which Beatrix goes to Germany’s capital city and mainly drinks ciders from elsewhere.
Cider Review 