JezSince 2010, Jez Howat has turned what was once a hobby into a growing small-scale producer of high quality heritage ciders; winning accolades and awards along the way. What you see now is the work of over a decade of practice.
Our methods differ little from the heritage cider makers throughout ciders long history in England. Washing and milling the apples, we use a 'rack and cloth' press to extract the juice, before treating with sulphar (OK, its modern day equivalent) and allowing natural flora of yeast to slowly ferment the juice into cider.
Every 146 cider has a juice content greater than 98%. In fact, we are so proud of the ciders provenance that we publish what goes in not only on the label, but also as an archive on this website.
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed Medium (Draught) from 146 Cider Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask (backlog). Notes say "146 Cider Medium Dry" and 6.7 %. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is apples, some toffee, mild yeasty and a bit sulphury notes. Flavour is apples, slight yeastiness as well as some floral notes and green apple skins.
minutemat (16469) reviewed Hampshire Heritage from 146 Cider Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
500ml bottle @ the 7th Shrewsbury Bottle Share as part of our significant others’ ’cider share’. Thanks to Leah. Pours still, cloudy orange-yellow. Cheesy aroma. Taste is traditional farmhouse scrumpy, tangy, acidic apples with horseblanket and barnyard elements. Lacking fruitiness.
Saintmatty (11341) reviewed Hampshire Heritage from 146 Cider Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask (Bitter Virtue, Southampton) - Hazy golden in colour. Enticing aroma of apples and some plastic (not a bad thing at all!). The taste is fruity and moderately tart with some acidic elements. Very refreshing and easy to drink. It certainly doesn’t taste its strength!
fonefan (85107) reviewed Hampshire Heritage from 146 Cider Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Polycask @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England. [ As 146 Cider Hampshire Heritage Medium Dry ].ABV: 6.7%. Unclear medium orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate aoole, cheese, barmyard. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light light acidic with a long to average duration, apples, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110804]