As
this classic advertisement from the 1950's attests, you're certainly "on the
best wicket" with Robinson's Cider but although it does it for
us, we can't
necessarily promise you will "Live appley ever after" as a result of
drinking it!
Our newly released Robinson's Flagon Cider is a revival of the product that
became the mainstay of the Robinson Cider business in the old days. It is only
available on draught and is quite different to Robinson's Fine Dry Vintage
Cider, which is only available in bottles. Try one after the other and you will
see for yourself.
It also contrasts strongly with the commercial brands: Robinson's Flagon Cider
should be served cool but not chilled; it is gently sparkling, with only half the "gasiness" of the
commercial brands and it is slightly hazy. It also has the wonderful apple
flavour that is and always has been the hallmark of Robinson's Cider.
So
why "Flagon" Cider? Well, as the number of agricultural workers diminished in
the face of mechanisation and as the practise of including cider as part of
their remuneration died away it became more difficult for local people to obtain
and enjoy good cider in the way they always had. It was of course the number of
jobs that declined, not the numbers or the thirst of the locals so Robinson's
simply started to make and serve the sort of cider you might have taken in your
flagon to work
in the fields each day. And then as now, it really hit the spot with the people
who knew.
As something of a revival is this really a "new" product? Best leave the last word
on that to Geoffrey Chaucer. "There is nothing new that it nas old. Now
up, now down, like a bocket in a well."
Robinson's Flagon Cider is only available locally, only on draught and can
be found at these
excellent independent pubs:
The Rose & Crown, Burford, Tenbury
Cadmore Lodge Hotel & Country Club, St Michaels
Ludlow Golf Club
Sapey Golf Club
The Balance Inn at Luston, Leominster
The Bell at Pensax
The Boot Inn, Orleton
The Bridge Hotel, Stanford Bridge
The Charlton Arms, Ludlow
The Church Inn, The Buttercross, Ludlow
The Falcon Hotel, Bromyard
The Live & Let Live, Bringsty Common, near Bromyard
The Old Lion at Cleobury Mortimer
The Ship in Tenbury
The Stockton Cross, Kimbolton, near Leominster
The Sun & Slipper, Mamble
The Feathers in Ludlow
The Fox at Hanley Broadheath
The Talbot at Newnham Bridge
The Talbot at Knightwick
The Tally Ho at Hanley Broadheath
The Temeside Inn at Little Hereford
...but please ask for it wherever you go!
