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12th December 2022

Warm Up with Hawkes Winter Cider this Festive Season

Hawkes’s warming spiced winter cider is ideal for mulling and at only 4.0% ABV is an ideal and delicious alternative to mulled wine through the colder months

Planning a party or gathering this festive season? Hawkes’s seasonal offering is once again here to enhance the festive cheer at home…

Now available to purchase online, Hawkes limited edition Winter Cider is the perfect seasonal beverage to keep you and your guests cosy this Christmas and beyond.

Launched only last year, Hawkes’ Winter Cider is a moreish apple cider, carefully blended with a suitably seasonal spice mix of cinnamon, candied orange, clove and nutmeg. Available in 3L boxes with an air-tight tap for easy pouring, Winter Cider is perfect for mulling on the hob at home in informal group settings and for those that prefer their cider chilled, can also be enjoyed cold.

Currently priced at only £13.75 (down from £16.95) and available to purchase through BrewDog’s website, Hawkes Winter Cider is a lighter alternative to mulled wine, with a markedly lower ABV of 4.0%.

Made only with wonky or surplus apples, vegan friendly and stored in recyclable packaging, Winter Cider is one of the most sustainable boxed ciders on the market.

To spice up festivities and really impress guests this winter, Hawkes general manager, Elliot Allison, shares five warming Winter Cider cocktail recipes that you can try at home. Read on to nail your seasonal beverage offering this Christmas, with Hot Pomme Punch, Tepache Heat, Christmas Day Mulled Cider, Dark & Warmy and Spice Up Your Life!…

 Hot Pomme Punch

Serves 2

Ingredients:

  • 500ml Hawkes Winter Cider
  • 50ml Five Hundred Cuts Rum
  • Lemons (for lemon peels)

Method:

  1. Gently heat Hawkes Winter Cider on the stovetop or hob without letting it boil
  2. When heat is even throughout, take off the heat and add the rum
  3. Peel the lemons to make lemon peel spirals
  4. Serve in a heatproof glass and pop the spirals into the cider and enjoy!

Tepache Heat

Serves 2

Ingredients:

  • 400ml Hawkes Winter Cider
  • 200ml pineapple juice
  • 4 cloves
  • Splash of tequila (optional, for added depth)

Method:

  1. Heat Hawkes Winter Cider and pineapple juice over a gentle heat without letting the mixture boil
  2. When heat is even throughout, take off the heat and add cloves
  3. Serve in a heatproof glass
  4. If using, add the tequila

Christmas Day Mulled Cider

Serves 4 (scale ingredients up or down depending on number of guests)

Ingredients:

  • 1L Hawkes Winter Cider
  • Splash of brandy
  • Ginger teabag
  • 2 clementines
  • 6 cloves

Method:

  1. Halve clementines and poke cloves into the skin
  2. Add ginger teabag and cloved clementines to a saucepan with Hawkes Winter Cider and heat mixture over a gentle heat without letting the mixture boil
  3. Simmer for 30 minutes to deepen the flavour
  4. Add the brandy right before serving

Dark and Warmy

Serves 2

Ingredients:

  • 500ml Hawkes Winter Cider
  • 50ml dark rum
  • 25ml maple syrup
  • Cinnamon sticks

Method:

  1. Add cinnamon sticks to Hawkes Winter Cider and heat on a gentle heat without letting the mixture boil
  2. When heat is even throughout, take off the eat and add in the rum
  3. Slowly stir through the maple syrup ensuring it melts gently into the cider
  4. Serve with a fresh cinnamon stick in a glass or mug

Spice Up Your Life!

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 1L Hawkes Winter Cider
  • 2 whole cinnamon sticks
  • 1tsp ground nutmeg
  • 6 cloves
  • Small piece of fresh ginger
  • Orange peel (after peeling, slice the orange itself for garnish)

Method:

  1. Add all the ingredients into a large pan and heat on a gentle heat
  2. Simmer for 30 minutes to release flavour from ingredients, ensuring the mixture doesn’t boil
  3. Leave spices and peel in the pan and ladle cider into heatproof glasses
  4. Add the slices of orange to the glasses and serve

Feel free to send any images of your cocktail creations, or any that you come up with yourself, to wearehawkes.com or to Hawkes’ Instagram – @wearehawkes.

ENDS

Notes to Editors.

  • Elliot is available for comment or interview to discuss the topics of the national apple waste issue, about Hawkes’ mission to save the nation’s most wasted fruit, about it’s delicious real-apple, wonky-fruit ciders and/or about the current cider scene/industry.
  • We can facilitate visits to the Hawkes Cidery & Taproom for a meeting with Elliot, a Cidery tour, Hawkes cider flight, and/or to witness the pressing process.
  • We can also provide Hawkes cider samples for review or inclusion in features.
  • The Hawkes Cidery & Taproom is available as a space for filming media or corporate content.

For further press information, please contact:

Will Challis | Elsa Findlay | Julie Aguilera Kemp

Rooster PR

T: +44 (0) 20 3440 8930

E: Hawkes@rooster.co.uk

W: www.rooster.co.uk

About Hawkes.

Founded in 2013, Bermondsey-based Hawkes is London’s first urban cidery, turning unloved, ‘wonky’, or surplus apples, which are too big or small for the shelves but perfect for juicing, into delicious real-apple cider.

Using only natural ingredients and never apple concentrate, Hawkes currently produces three core real-apple ciders: The vibrant, fresh and bright, Urban Orchard (4.5% ABV); juicy, sharp and lush, Dead & Berried (4.0% ABV); and tropical, zingy and offbeat, Pineapple Punch (4.0% ABV).

Hawkes collaborates annually with The Orchard Project – the only national charity dedicated to the creation, restoration and celebration of community orchards – to collect surplus orchard apples, allowing the cidery to turn vast amounts of otherwise waste fruit into planet-friendly cider every autumn. In addition to stocks from The Orchard Project, Hawkes’ Apple Donors initiative brings in donations from all over the UK. In 2021 alone, the annual apple drive saw the cidery save over 130,000 – or 12 tonnes – of apples from going to waste.

Hawkes was acquired by craft beer giant, BrewDog, in 2018. It is available to enjoy by the pint or can in all BrewDog bars nationally, in a number of Independent London pubs and pub groups around the UK, and at Hawkes’ Bermondsey-based railway arch Cidery & Taproom. You can also enjoy Hawkes in your own home; Pineapple Punch and Dead & Berried are stocked in 150 Sainsbury’s stores across London and key UK cities, and packs of all Hawkes’ core ciders are available to buy via the Hawkes online shop wearehawkes.com.


Press release from Rooster PR

For further press information, please contact:

Will Challis | Elsa Findlay | Julie Aguilera Kemp

Rooster PR

T: +44 (0) 20 3440 8930

E: Hawkes@rooster.co.uk

W: www.rooster.co.uk