Category: perry

The American Homebrewers Association recently posted the First Round winners from this year’s National Homebrew Competition. The NHC began in 1979 with a mere 34 entries and has grown steadily since then, with an unofficial count of 7,775 entries in 2013. Although the competition is geared toward grain-based beverages, the NHC has awarded a Meadmaker…

The Orchards & Cider Competition at the Royal Bath & West Show is generally regarded as the world’s largest cider judging. Cider is such an important part of the show that historian Alan Stone has even written a booklet on the topic: Cider at the Bath & West Show. The judges for this year’s competition include…

Two major cider and perry competitions took place over the weekend, the Big Apple Cider and Perry Trials and the CAMRA National Cider and Perry Championships. Both competitions are unusual in that many of the judges may have no prior judging experience: the entrants themselves form the judging panels at the the Big Apple trials, while…

[iframe_loader src=”https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col3+from+3463743&h=false&lat=51.17934297928927&lng=-57.33181845000002&z=2&t=4&l=col3″ height=”320″ width=”533″] A map of the 2012 GLINT CAP commercial medalists. Click the dots for more information on each producer. The official results for the 2012 Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition (GLINT CAP) were posted on Wednesday evening. I have imported the results into a spreadsheet and—by viewing the data in various different…

Many in the cider world are anxiously awaiting the results of this year’s Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition. I had a wonderful time judging at the event and I greatly enjoyed meeting other cider enthusiasts. I was curious about last year’s event as I was not in attendance, so I set about analyzing last year’s…