Author: Beatrix Swanson
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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.
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The Lady & the Cornish Giant: Investigating Colloggett Pippin
All about a most useful Cornish cider apple.
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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.
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Cider Salon comes to Hungary
Bea reports on the inaugural Hungarian Cider Salon, held in Pécs in April.
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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.
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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.
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A 2025 CiderCon Diary
Beatrix lets us peek into her diary, as she navigates a week around CiderCon 2025.
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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
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Meet the Ambassadors: Lunch with Pom Cider
Beatrix heads to the capital to meet one of London’s newest cidermakers.
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A Berlin Cider Crawl
In which Beatrix goes to Germany’s capital city and mainly drinks ciders from elsewhere.
