Sentence examples for cider apple from inspiring English sources

"Cider is a quintessentially British drink," she says and about half her 100 acres of orchards grow the unique English bitter-sweet cider apple.

But all cider producers benefited from the system, and 2m new cider apple trees were planted in the UK between 1995 and 2006.

Britain's National Association of Cider Makers has thus sponsored Serena Marks, a researcher at the University of Glasgow, to look into the matter.Ms Marks's first task was to measure the phenolic content of 24 types of British cider apple.

What the farm doesn't produce itself it sources from other local suppliers, including vegetables, cheeses, butter, milk, cream, cider, apple juice, ice cream and a range of ales from the appetisingly titled Moor Beer Company.

Home-made using milk from the farm's friesian herd, the ice cream is flavoured with local ingredients where possible, to cut food miles: flavours include Sedgemoor honey, lavender blossom, Somerset strawberry and cider apple as well as cider brandy.

The wood stove may warm up visitors' fingers and noses, but the proffered shots of "fire cider" – apple cider vinegar suffused with ginger, garlic, cayenne pepper and other spices – warm you up from the inside out.

(Made from "bittersweet" cider apples, it says on the label).

"The apples are more aromatic and sweeter than cider apples," Mr. Roth said.

In fact there are two types of apple: cider apples and eating apples, also called dessert apples.

Worcestershire is noted for its plums, and Somerset and Devon specialize in cider apples.

Cider apples are generally small, misshapen and ugly, full of tannins and high in acid, but evidently perfect for fermenting.