Kentish Pip cider blog

Sam Mount
The Right Cider

The Right Cider

At Kentish Pip we have a clear ambition, to create outstanding cider, with impeccable core values. We believe in being The Right Cider, for the cider drinker and beyond. That means celebrating the unique character of fresh English apples, making every drop onsite at Woolton Farm, by combining the best ingredients with innovation, sustainability, style and a pinch of tradition. It’s time to choose which cider you are on. Flavour first. Because life’s too short to drink mediocre cider. Great cider takes time. While our fresh, fruit forward ciders can be ready within a few months of pressing, where others...

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Cider Perfect Serve Advice

Serving advice for Kentish Pip Trade Customers. Glassware Choice of glass is very important.  We do not recommend drinking directly from bottles or cans.  The exception to this is where either glass is not allowed or a can is preferable.   Choose the glass to suit your environment and customer experience. Smaller tulip shaped glassware allows customers to appreciate the full aromas and offers a more premium serve where larger measures will reduce serving time and queues at the bar. We supply two variants to our trade customers at cost price. Stemless TumblersTulip shaped and laser etched with Kentish Pip illustrations,...

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Line Cleaning For Cider

I won't repeat the well documented importance of regularly and effectively cleaning beer and cider lines for draught products.  But it is worth noting some of the additional things we strongly recommend all trade and busting a few myths. Mainstream beer and cider vs Craft cider Mainstream cider, like mainstream lager is a very stable product due to high levels of malic acid being added along with high levels of preservatives, artificial sweeteners, filtration and processing  Craft cider should also be stable but it can vary significantly in acidity levels, sugar levels and most will have much lower levels of artificial preservatives so additional care should...

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Dispense and Packaging

Sustainability We have made a big effort to reduce and where possible remove single use plastics from our packaging.  There is always more that can be done but here are some changes we have made in the last 12 months: All tapes are now made from biodegradable paper tape Can boxes we have removed the tray and shrink wrap packaging and replaced these with kraft corrugated card which is fully recyclable and biodegradable Bag in Box boxes are made from kraft corrugated card which is fully recyclable and biodegradable Mail order wrapping, we have stopped wrapping parcels in plastic shrink wrap and instead we are...

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