Aston Manor Brewery in Birmingham no longer makes ales; just cider, on an industrial scale - yet retains the word "Brewery" in its name. :-(
On 15 November 2011 15:40, Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > Just dome some armchair mapping in Hereford where the HP Bulmer site is a > massive industrial complex so I don't think ciderhouse or press or mill is > somehow appropriate so I've labelled it industrial=brewery for the meantime. > Perhaps we should also have industrial=cider? The Bulmers site in > tagQueries which is in Ireland will probably be the same (and possibly > Magners - but that might come out of the Bulmers Irish site) > Regards > Brian > > On 15 November 2011 14:07, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: >> >> Steve Doerr wrote: >> > The Oxford English Dictionary got it wrong then: >> > *cider-house* n. a building in which cider is made. >> >> Far be it for me to criticise the august OED (though I'm more of a >> Chambers >> man), but yes, it did. >> >> http://www.thecoronationtap.com/ - "Clifton's original, and still it's >> only, >> ciderhouse" >> >> http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Cider_house - "A Cider House is >> like >> a pub that serves only cider. They used to be quite common, but there are >> only a handful left. Often they were little more than a room in a >> farmhouse >> or cottage, selling cider for consumption on the premises." >> >> http://www.bristolciderhouse.co.uk/ >> >> and perhaps the definitive description, by the late Paul Gunningham at >> http://www.somersetmade.co.uk/oldscrump/ciderhouses-ciderbar.php : >> >> "Ye Olde Cider Bar in Newton Abbot, Devon, England is a very special place >> for scrumpy users; special because it is a surviving example of a rarity >> whose numbers have dwindled over the centuries: the cider house. As the >> name >> implies, this is a bar that sells cider to the public, but a cider house >> is >> not a pub - maybe most (if not all) pubs these days sell some form of >> cider >> (even though most only sell the inferior keg variety), but a cider house >> definitely does not sell any beer! >> >> "Once upon a time there was a large number of alehouses in England, >> selling >> only ale (beer) to the public, and similarly there were many cider houses >> dispensing cider to their thirsty patrons. Over the years, alehouses >> became >> public houses selling a wider range of drinks than just beer - wines and >> spirits included. Meanwhile, many former cider houses became pubs, with >> the >> result that today we expect our pubs to sell just about any form of >> alcoholic drink, as well as soft drinks. >> >> "At the last count, there were only four surviving cider houses in England >> - >> in the whole of Britain, for that matter. One of these extremely rare and >> special places is this cider house in Devon - Ye Olde Cider Bar in the >> market town of Newton Abbot on the scenic River Teign, between historic >> Exeter and the tourist resort of Torquay." >> >> and so on. >> >> cheers >> Richard >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Drinking-Map-of-UK-tp6945690p6996374.html >> Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb