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The Freshly Pressed One

Hawkstone Cider

Freshly pressed British apples, never concentrate. Gold at the World Cider Awards in 2025. Also the subject of the 2023 batch that over-fermented, which we recalled while saying, publicly and in writing, that we had completely cocked it up.

£17.50

Age-restricted. We will card you at checkout and again at the door.

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5.0%CiderAwardBestseller
ABV5.0%
Format500ml bottle
ApplesBritish, freshly pressed, never concentrate
AwardsWorld Cider Awards 2025 Gold
The Freshly Pressed One

What it actually is.

Freshly pressed British apples, never concentrate. Gold at the World Cider Awards in 2025. Also the subject of the 2023 batch that over-fermented, which we recalled while saying, publicly and in writing, that we had completely cocked it up.

Brewed at College Farm, Bourton-on-the-Water, by The Cotswold Brewing Company. The barley for the lagers is grown on Diddly Squat; the apples for the cider are British and freshly pressed, never from concentrate.

  • ABV: 5.0%
  • Format: 500ml bottle
  • Apples: British, freshly pressed, never concentrate
  • Awards: World Cider Awards 2025 Gold

Age-restricted

Please enjoy Hawkstone responsibly. Everything with alcohol in it is age-restricted: we will card you at checkout and the driver will card you again at the door.

The credentials

Why it won something.

World Cider Awards 2025 Gold

Judged blind, by people who do this for a living.

Farm barley

Grown on Diddly Squat.

Bourton-on-the-Water

An hour up the road.

2,000+ pubs

And every major supermarket.

While you are here

The rest of the range

Fifteen per cent off, every month.

The Hawkstonian subscription: a case every thirty days at fifteen per cent off, twenty per cent off at the brewery shop, and first dibs on everything new. Minimum three charges, then cancel whenever you like.

Wondering

What people actually ask.

The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.

Not from this site. Hawkstone reaches ten European countries through distributors, and the stockist finder is the honest route.

The lager and the pils are brewed with barley grown here. The cider is pressed from British apples, never concentrate. The spirits use British grain but not exclusively our own, and we say which is which on each page.

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