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myCornwall out & about Cornish Orchards, Vineyards & Breweries

1. Atlantic Brewery 9. Winery and Restaurant , Trethurgy, Nr www.atlanticbrewery.com www.knightor.com

2. Bosue Vineyard 10. Ninemaidens Mead , St Austell PL26 6EU , Cornwall, TR16 5TQ www.bosuevineyard.co.uk www.ninemaidensmead.com

3. Camel Valley Vineyard 11. Polgoon Vineyard and Cider Orchard , PL30 5LG Rosehill Meadow, www.camelvalley.com www.polgoon.com

4. Cornish Cider Co. 12. Sharps Brewery Launceston , Cornwall Rock PL27 6NU www.cornishciderco.co.uk www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk

5. Driftwood Spars Brewery 12 Trevaunance Cove, St.Agnes TR5 0RT www.driftwoodspars.com/brewery 6. Granite Rock Brewery 14 3 Unit 19, Road Industrial Estate, Bodmin Penryn TR10 9EP www.graniterockbrewery.co.uk 1

7. Helford Creek Newquay Lostwithial Mudgeon Vean Farm, St Martin, TR12 6DB 15 9 www.helfordcreek.co.uk St Austell 8. Keltek Brewery 5 Cardrew Industrial Estate, 19 20 Redruth TR15 1SS 2 www.keltekbrewery.co.uk 8 Truro Redruth 4 13 10 St Ives 16 17 18 6 Falmouth 11 21 22 Penzance Helston 7 19. Touchwood Cider , St Agnes TR5 0PZ www.touchwoodcider.co.uk

20. Wooden Hand Brewery Road Industrial Estate, Grampound Rd, Truro TR2 4TB www.woodenhand.co.uk

13. Skinners Brewery 16. St Ives Brewery Riverside, Newham Road, Mushroom Farm, Halestown, Truro TR1 2DP St Ives TR26 3LZ Places to www.skinnersbrewery.com www.stives-brewery.co.uk

14. Southwestern Distilleries 17. St Ives Cider eat/drink Higher Trevibban Farm, , The Old Mushroom Farm, , Wadebridge PL27 7SH St. Ives TR26 3LZ 21. Godolphin Arms www.southwesterndistillery.com www.stivescider.co.uk West End, TR17 0EN www.godolphinarms.co.uk 15. St Austell Brewery 18. The Rebel Brewing Co. 63 Trevarthian Rd, Century House, Kernick Industrial 22. Ben’s Kitchen St Austell, Cornwall PL25 4BY Estate, Penryn West End, Marazion TR17 0EL www.staustellbrewery.co.uk www.rebelbrewing.co.uk www.benscornishkitchen.com

28 eth warn ugens myCornwall out & about Time for Bosue Vineyard Tours & Owned and run by Paul and Liz Sibley, Bosue Vineyard is situated just outside St. Ewe, near St. Austell on the south coast of Cornwall. The south facing slopes and the Tastings mild Cornish climate perfectly suit the varieties of Rondo, Regent, Phoenix and Orion grapes that Polgoon, Penzance produce their award winning Have a guided tour of a truly Cornish white, rosé and sparkling wines. Cider Farm and Vineyard followed www.bosuevineyard.co.uk by a tasting at 2pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays from March to October. Book your tour as it is particularly busy during the summer holidays. Private tours for groups of 10+ also available. From £10pp. T: 01736 333946

Rebel Brewery, Penryn A 30 minute walking tour of the brewery Polgoon and production areas and an hour and a half tasting with a chance to try a Once fish merchants supplying selection of award winning beers. Marks & Spencer from their £10 – £12 pp. Groups welcome. business based at T: 01326 378517 Harbour, John & Kim Coulson then decided that they needed Skinners Brewery, Truro a bigger house for their five Daily tours at 2:30pm Monday to children and bought a derelict Friday & 12pm throughout July & farmhouse on the edge of August. £8pp. Group evening tours Penzance. After meeting also available at £16pp. Samples are an award-winning Cornish included in both. winemaker they decided to T: 01872 271885 make use of their 23 acres to plant vines and create their Bosue Vineyard, St Austell own Cornish vineyard. Polgoon Full Vineyard Tours are at 2pm on is now dedicated to producing Mondays and Fridays and £7.50pp, a huge variety artisan Cornish but on days they are open you can visit ciders, wines and juices as well and buy wines at any time between We love as holding regular tours and 11.00am and 6.00pm. Polgoon tastings for the public. T: 01726 843159 www.polgoon.com Knightor Winery, St Austell Berry Cider Guided tours take around 45 minutes and run from Thursday to Sunday at 5pm, with additional tours midday on Saturday and Sunday. £8.95pp. u certified 100% organic by the Soil The the brewery’s processor licence also Winemaker’s tour runs at 5pm on the Association and the brewery is the only allows Stuart to bottle, cask and package second and last Thursday of each one in Cornwall which grows its own the beer on the premises limiting the ‘drink month. Booking required. miles’ from creation to consumer. T: 01726 851101 ingredients, including organic Cornish Fuggles hops, in the surrounding land. It is Before leaving, Stuart offered the St Austell Brewery, St Austell also naturally carbonated in the bottle, by photographer and I a “free range hop-tip Brewery tours run between 11am and the yeast, making it better for aging, much omelette”, and after a long day, it was an 3pm Monday to Saturday. The tour like a fine wine. invite we couldn’t refuse. After leisurely lasts approximately one hour. “We were approached by a top chef five wandering the rows of hops, snapping £10pp. Groups welcome. or six years ago to make a beer that would off the tips and popping them into a T: 01726 66022 match his cuisine at the time. He had basket, we returned to his kitchen where some input into the style of beer he wanted he whipped together the ideal brewing Camel Valley, Bodmin and between us we came up with a new day meal. We sat out in the sunshine, Guided tours take place at 2.30pm, recipe. It was so nice, we decided to make surrounded by greenery, with an ice-cold Monday-Friday between 1st April and four flavoured beers which now form our glass of Honey Love Grass, a wonderfully 30th September. £7.50pp. Grand Tour Discovery Range,” said Stuart. light, refreshing beer with a hint of honey and Tasting every Wednesday evening “In the blackcurrant and molasses recently created by Stuart, and tucked into at 5pm between 1st April and 30th flavoured beer, we grow the blackcurrants, his omelette. Complete with fresh hop-tips, October. £12pp. in the elderflower and lemon we produce which taste quite similar to asparagus, it T: 01208 77959 the elderflower and in the lime, chilli and felt like a portion of paradise, in paradise ginger, we grow the chilli and the ginger.” after a long day of hard work. u

naw warn ugens 29 “It is all about experimenting with Southwestern ingredients and Distillery perfecting your Southwestern Distillery is an independent, family technique” company handcrafting u I feel like I have tasted a little Gin and Pastis in tiny of the life of the brewer. Many batches (the old- have said to me that it must be fashioned way) by the the best job in the world and after coast of . my time spent at Atlantic brewery, Tarquin’s Gin, the first gin with its incredible location and produced in Cornwall, a divine, crisp beer to savour at has an incredible fresh the end, it’s hard to disagree. and aromatic flavour Knowing that every sip is organic, and is a must-have drink vegetarian and produced in an this summer. Distilled environmentally conscious way, by innovative young this has to be as close as it gets distiller, Tarquin, using to guilt-free beer drinking! homegrown violets, fresh orange zest and local spring water, it is incredible over ice, with a good tonic or in any cocktail. Southwestern You can pick up an Atlantic Distillery also produces Cornish Pastis, Ale at many places across a delicious anise-flavoured spirit that Drink is a wonderful summer refresher when Cornwall, including: combined with ice and water. It is a rich, smooth yet delicate spirit, with no added • The Phoenix, sugar and for ‘something magical ‘ Tarquin • The Eden Project Shop, St Austell Festivals recommends adding a drop to a cocktail, • The Scarlet Hotel, particularly a Tarquin’s Gin Martini. • St Michael’s Mount Shop & St Ives Summer Beer & Cider Festival www.southwesterndistillery.com Restaurant, Marazion 9th August – 10th August St Ives in the summer is the perfect place to enjoy some of the finest ales that Or buy some online at Cornwall Food and Drink Festival www.atlanticbrewery.com Cornwall and the rest of the world have to offer. This August the Guildhall in the 26th September – 28th September centre of St Ives will be packed full of The largest event anywhere dedicated to beer and cider lovers for the first annual Cornish food and drink sees the centre of Truro transformed for three days of non- summer beer festival. stop eating, drinking, trying and buying. Favourite The Little Apple Cyder & Falmouth Beer Festival flavoured Music Festival 24th October – 25th October 12th September – 14th September Atlantic’s Discovery Organised each year by CAMRA , The festival is held within the grounds Lime, Chilli the Falmouth Beer Festival sees real ale of Healey’s Cyder farm. Tickets include enthusiasts from Cornwall and beyond & Ginger tractor rides around the orchards and descend into Falmouth as the town hosts working farm and free Cyder samples the largest event of its kind in Cornwall. plus tents jam-packed with live music. Visitors are able to sample more than 200 real ales and dozens of superb ciders, perries and alcoholic ginger beers.

Sweet Treatt Ninemaidens Traditional Mead is the perfect accompaniment to any dessert. It is made with delicious Cornish honey capturing the delicate taste of Cornwall’s native flora. www.ninemaidensmead.com

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