Bristol Sausage and Cider festival gets cooking this evening
Posted on: 04 Aug 2017The Bristol Sausage and Cider Festival takes over The Passenger Shed by Temple Meads today and tomorrow (4th and 5th August) for two days of bangers, booze and banging tunes.
Sometimes Bristol just gets things right, by succinctly celebrating the characteristics which make the city such a good place to live. The Bristol Sausage and Cider Festival represents exactly that, bringing an unholy horde of bangers and lash to The Passenger Shed today and tomorrow in a knees-up that can only be described as prototypically West Country.
Arriving on the weekend sandwiched between UpFest, Europe’s biggest street art festival, and the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, which annually provides one of the city’s most iconic images of its skyline, this gathering arguably more quintessentially Bristolian than both of these put together – and is sure to taste much, much better.
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If The Wurzels could posit a nirvana, they would likely land at something not far from this festival, whose larders will be stocked with enough of the apple nectar to pickle a small Somerset village. Ice-cold ciders will be served by producers coming from near and far, including those from West Country legends like Roger Wilkins and the whacky Somerset-based Westcroft’s Janet’s Jungle Juice along with bottled sparkling ciders.
As for the bangers, artisan makers will be cooking and selling their local meaty sausages - and there will also be vegetarian food available. Hot dogs start at £3.50.
Local bands performing include the extremely danceable Bath-based Maitree Express, rowdy Bristol band The Lounge Cat Ideals and folk-fuelled jazz from the Bristol-based Rin Tins.
Tickets are available online or on the door. Sessions run from 6pm to 11pm on Friday 4th August, noon to 5pm and 6pm to 11pm on Saturday 5th August. Tickets for each session sold separately.
Advance tickets to The Bristol Cider Festival are £6 and are available here.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
