Thatchers Gold is a refreshing medium dry cider. It’s blended from classic west country apple varieties like the bittersweet Dabinett and Harry Masters Jersey. The more I drink of this more more I question my memory of what I thought of this same cider when it was in the bottled format. I think I have fonder memories of the bottled version. Thatchers Haze Cloudy Somerset Cider - 245 calories (500ml; 4.5 percent) 50g of sugar - (4.1g of sugar per 100ml). According to the recently released Westons Cider Report 2022​, which has been compiled largely in conjunction with data experts CGA, Kantar Worldpanel and IRi, apple variants are leading the way for on-trade cider sales as they regain ground lost throughout the pandemic and move towards pre-pandemic levels.

Ward adds: “The collaboration has shown it is possible to produce a full-bodied, alcohol-free cider and our decision to supply it on draught as an alternative format to the existing bottle options will support pubs and bars that are serious about offering genuine alcohol-free choice for customers and will do so in a sustainable way. He says if the food served at your pub is light, which would include fish, seafood or salads, you could serve an eastern counties-style cider while if the food is more robust, for example using meat, then a western counties-style cider would pair well but he stresses there are no hard and fast rules so try to keep it playful and experimental.

Final Thoughts on Thatchers Gold Medium Dry

After discussions with cider producer Crafty Nectar, the businesses made Crafty Nectar 0.5 – a Somerset cider using West Country apples that it claims is a medium-sweet, zingy cider that it believes is the first alcohol-free cider to be available to the on-trade on draught and it could fill a space in a pub operator’s fridge through its 330ml and 500ml bottles. According to Dental Excellence findings, a standard 500ml bottle of Pear Kopparberg cider contains 53g of sugar - which is equivalent to two and a half glazed Krispy Kreme donuts.

In the fruit-flavoured sector, Strongbow Dark Fruit remains the market leader with 63% share, a reduction of 3.2ppts from December 2020 as new draught fruit ciders become established, including Old Mout Berries & Cherries, Cornish Rattler Berry & Stowford Press Mixed Berries. Yes, it could well be the Year of the Apple but that’s not to say fruit-flavoured variants will not enjoy success too. So long as it’s a year for pub operators, we’ll all be happy to have a year of almost-normal trade under our belts and, if that happens, surely there are even more better times to come in the future? Again it tastes like it is trying to be a full flavoured aged Somerset style cider but it just falls short. When served cold it is at its best. It has a toned down taste of your classic Somerset ciders with a good balance of bitter apples but low in tannin. There is plenty of fizz with no residual sugar. It isn’t undrinkable but it just needs to be amped up to get a full hit of flavour. Final Thoughts on Thatchers Gold Medium Dry When glucose levels are persistently raised, glucose molecules become irreversibly bound to proteins in the circulation.Regionally, it is the West Midlands, south-west, Wales and Northern Ireland that overtrades with cider compared to the average alcohol consumption of other products. Although London and the south-east have larger percentages that consume cider, it trades slightly below other forms of alcohol. Kopparberg Mixed Fruits - 275 calories (500ml; 4.0 percent) - 46g of sugar (9.2g of sugar per 100ml).