The following list of Cider Producers in Kent is compiled by the Kent CAMRA Cider Representative Paul Meredith – Tel: 01580 762462 – Email : paul@camra-afrm.org.uk
Badgers Hill Farm, Chilham (01227 730573)
Open 6 days per week for sales – don’t do wholesale – so £60 per 5 gallon keg
Biddenden Cider , Biddenden (01580 291726)
Dry, Medium & Sweet available
Big Tree Cider, Hartley, Kent (01474 705221 or 07973 677123)
David Claridge – claridgedm@hotmail.co.uk – www.cclweb.co.uk/cider
Produced about 600 litres in 2008 – will be more commercial in 2009
Two products – Big Tree Original & Appley Ever After
Broomfield Orchard, Broomfield Road, Herne Bay
Margaret & Robert Riley 01227 362279
Castle Cider Company, Chiddingstone (01732 455977)
Small producer – sell all their cider locally – nothing available for festivals
Chafford Cider, Fordcombe (01892 740437) – Chris Ballanden
Produce 600 -700 gallons per year. 5 gallons available for £30
Crippledick Cider, Boughton (01227 751537)
Medium & Dry (6.5%) available in 26 pint boxes (£1.80/pt)
Double Vision Cider, Boughton Monchelsea (01622 746633)
Medium & Dry Cider, Perry
Can do litre bottles, 10/20 litre boxes or 5 gallon containers
Single varieties in 500ml bottles – Cox, Gala, Katy
Johnson’s Farmhouse Cider, Isle of Sheppey (01795 665203) – Paul Johnson
As well as his normal blended cider, he has small quantities of cider from his own orchard for the first time in 2008. (5 gallon kegs)
Kent Cider Company
Mark Henderson 07738 5703818
info@kentcider.co.uk – www.kentcider.co.uk
Neal’s Place Farm, Canterbury (01227 765632)
Cider available in bottles only
Pawley Farm Cider, Painters Forstal (01795 532043)
Dry/medium/sweet/spiced only available in bottles
Pippins Cider, Pembury (01892 824544)
No cider currently available – start up delayed again no firm restart date
Rough Old Wife Cider, Old Wives Lees (01227 700757 or 07768 364353)
Simon Reed – Developing an old orchard with over 250 mixed variety apple trees, producing below 1500 litres
20 litre returnable manucube boxes at £2 a pint
