10 Fun Facts About Cider Brands

Which widely recognized cider brand was first produced in the United Kingdom in 1960?

Made by H. P. Bulmer, now part of Heineken, it claims about 15 per cent of the global cider market by volume.

Which Boston Beer Company hard cider brand grows its own apples near Walden, New York?

The Samuel Adams parent company's cider is credited with getting cider onto restaurant and retail-chain menus across the US.

Woodchuck Hard Cider was founded at a winery in Proctorsville in 1991. In which U.S. state?

By 2007 Woodchuck was the first US cider company to sell a million cases in a year, and in 2012 it was bought by Irish drinks group C&C, the owner of Magners.

Which Irish cider is called Bulmers in Ireland but sold under another name abroad?

The County Tipperary cider cannot use the Bulmers name abroad because H. P. Bulmer, the Strongbow maker, owns it outside Ireland.

Which family cider maker, founded by William in 1904, still presses apples at Myrtle Farm in Sandford, Somerset?

Thatchers grows apple trees hedgerow-style on wires and keeps an exhibition orchard of over 458 varieties; some ciders still mature in century-old oak vats.

From which European country does the fruit cider brand Kopparberg originate?

The name literally means Copper Mountain's Brewery, after the mining town in the Bergslagen region where it is based.

Which Sebastopol, California cider producer opened the first modern cider-centred pub in the US in 1999?

Founder Jeffrey House chose Sonoma County's historic apple country because it reminded him of his native England; the pub closed in 2010.

Which South African cider, launched in 1996, is famously served with a lemon wedge in the bottle neck?

Made from apples grown in the Elgin Valley of the Western Cape, it is sold in over 60 countries and is South Africa's leading cider export.

Which cider brand, bought by MillerCoors in 2012, was relaunched in 2023 by Minneapolis Cider Company?

Crispin's founders went on to open Copper & Kings American Brandy in 2014, and the brand's 2023 comeback used the original recipe.

Which family-owned producer has been making cider in Much Marcle, Herefordshire, since 1880?

Founder Henry Weston's great-granddaughter Helen Thomas runs the firm, which still ferments in a large collection of oak vats.