HOW WE MAKE OUR CIDER

Don't be fooled by some (a lot) of the so called cider out there. Our cider (and perry) is fermented from only 100% fresh pressed English cider apples grown in the surrounding countryside and contains NOTHING that doesn't need to be there. In fact our corner of the world is rich with cider heritage boasting more orchards than anywhere else in the UK.

 

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The apples are locally sourced from small independent growers

That contraption Allen has is called a Panking pole

Hogan’s founder Allen Hogan gathers apples from local orchard trees with a panking pole — part of our traditional cider-making process.

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Fruit is delivered to our mill in the Malvern Hills by local cider apple growers

A tractor hauls a trailer of freshly harvested cider apples through the Malvern countryside to Hogan’s pressing site in Castlemorton, Worcestershire.

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The apples are washed, hand sorted, milled and pressed 

Apples being carefully sorted by hand at Hogan’s Cider pressing site in Castlemorton, Worcestershire — removing bruised or rotten fruit to ensure only the best apples are pressed for our cider.

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We pump the juice into fermentation tanks - here begins the alchemy of fermentation

Fermentation is the process of converting sugar in the apple juice to alcohol.  How long this takes largely depends on the temperature outside, the colder it is, the longer it can take.

Stainless steel fermentation tanks at Hogan’s Cider, where freshly pressed apple juice undergoes a slow, cold fermentation through the winter to develop depth and character.

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Box it, bag it & keg it ready to ship around the world...

We have customers all over, from Birmingham to Aberdeen, Jersey to Japan..

Stacked boxes of Hogan’s Cider and Perry ready for dispatch — the final stage of production where our ciders are boxed, bagged or kegged for delivery to customers across the UK and around the world.

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Refreshingly great cider with no artificial sweeteners or colourings

In fact we're one of the very very few brands who label every ingredient that goes into our ciders and perry. All are suitable for Vegans and are Gluten free.

A freshly poured glass of Hogan’s Dry Cider on a rustic table — golden, naturally crafted and refreshingly pure, made without artificial sweeteners or colourings, and always vegan and gluten-free.