The Core of It: Severn Cider

Through a tiny little Cotswold village and down a single-file country lane exists one of Gloucestershire’s best cider producers. Based in the tiny civil parish of Awre, Severn Cider and Perry is a family-run business shared across three generations. 

Since 1956, they've been making cider at their family home-turned-cider mill. Boasting over eight different varieties of drink, this small outfit are the winners of countless regional and national awards, have sold-out of their handcrafted beverages for the past two years, and are even looking to send their produce abroad.

Made on-site from the juice of local heritage apples and pears, the company sits on an idyllic countryside retreat you simply must take some time out to visit. Tucked away among cottages and forged well from the beaten track, you’d be forgiven for thinking the premises is well hidden, but its owner, Nick Bull, explained his small bungalow and unassuming barn were ‘the centre of his world’, and rightly so.

I had a chat with one of Severn Ciders’ Directors, Tom Bull, about the company his family is building. We walked around his home, toured their presses and storage facilities, stood underneath a blossoming Box Kernel tree and spoke at length, through minute April showers, about apples, alcohol, and always pushing the boundaries…

Severn Cider and Perry are the producers of Core Blimey, the Students’ Union run social enterprise at the University of Gloucestershire. They supply us with white-label stock which we rebrand and sell as our own – we’ve won awards for it, just like Severn Cider has!

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