Ventons Cider

Cidery in Cullompton, Devon, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2010

Contact
Willis Cottage, Clyst St. Lawrence, Cullompton, EX15 2NL, England
Description
Mark and Sharon Venton moved to their smallholding in Clyst St Lawrence, East Devon in 2006 and upon clearing the overgrown grounds, uncovered two old apple orchards. Rather than waste the apples, they borrowed a hand-turned crusher and small basket style press to make small batches of Cyder in an old stable.

Although complete novices, they were inspired by the results and in the thrird year Mark found some Victorian press ironwork on a reclamation site, bought a freshly felled oak tree and built a large Oak twin screw press with the green oak, which could hold over 1 tonne of crushed apples per pressing or per 'cheese' as it is called in the trade. Using the traditional Devon method of pressing crushed apples between layers of straw and fermenting the juice in oak barrels with wild yeasts, they filled several barrels and went on to win the 2009 and 2010 Devon County Show first prize for Dry Farmhouse Cyder. It got people interested and asking where they could buy it so the growing hobby became the beginnings of a small business. More prizes have been won year on year since then and the interest in Ventons Devon Cyder has continued to rise in line with that.

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6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Carron works. Pours hazy orange, nose is apple, light vinegar, taste is dry, apple. --- Beer merged from original tick of Skippy's Scrumpy on 21 Aug 2017 at 09:12 - Score: 6

Tried from Cask on 11 Jul 2017 at 01:52


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Box @ JDW Shrewsbury Hotel. Pours cloudy gold, slightly mucky looking. Aroma of light acidic fruit. Taste is dry and acidic, pinching away the apple fruit with a bitter dry character. Kind of ok.

Tried on 09 Jul 2017 at 14:05


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours a hazy pale yellow colour with almost no head. Aroma is musty store apples and damp straw. A dry light tart apple taste. Still and medium bodied with a dry finish.

Tried on 08 Jul 2017 at 11:43


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

BIAB at Tanners Hall Darlington JDW 2017 cider fest. Hazy golden colour, no head and aroma of horseblanket funk. Taste is mellow musty apple, some tartness with barnyard leathery horseblanket funk and drying tannin. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry funky finish. Very drinkable.

Tried on 07 Jul 2017 at 11:38


7
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Gravity dispense (bag-in-box) @ NBF 2016 [ The 41th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 9th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Venton Skippy Scrumpy ].Clear medium orange yellow color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, sweet apples, vanilla, light barnyard. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, apple, sweet apple, barnyard, funky, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20161013] 7-2-8-3-15

Tried on 03 Apr 2017 at 10:48


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Box @ Cuthbert Brodrick, Leeds. Slightly hazed golden-yellow coloured. Has plenty of apple in its nose, with a dryness to its apple in taste, with a little bit of activity on the tongue.

Tried on 21 Jul 2016 at 14:58


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Polypin at standing order.. Hazy Amber.. Thin white lacing soft.. Dry apple metallic fruit nose.. Soft dry apple

Tried on 13 Jul 2016 at 12:21


6.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

BIAB at the Standing order. Pours murky orange with no head. Aromas of apple, wood. Taste is sour, dry, faint tickle of carbonation on the tongue. Light sour finish.

Tried on 12 Jul 2016 at 06:12


7

Bag in box at the standing order. Pours golden yellow, nose is funky, apple, oak, taste is dry, tart apple, little sour.

Tried on 11 Jul 2016 at 09:08


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

BIAB at Tanners Hall JDW Darlington. Hazy yellow gold colour, no head and funky apple nose. Flavour is mellow apple, sour vinegar, oaky and barnyard notes, bittersweet with drying tannins. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, very dry tart and tannic at the finish. Nicely drinkable.

Tried on 09 Jul 2016 at 07:53