Their story
Brakes Cider is a revival of a Nailsea cider business that traded under the Brake family name from the mid-1800s until the early 1970s, when father and son Walter and Leonard Brake ran it. Leonard's descendant Joe Brake relaunched the brand in 2020, around forty years after the original business stopped trading, using apples from some of the same North Somerset orchards his family supplied decades earlier. The cider is blended from more than nine cider apple varieties. It's a small operation without its own visitor premises; its ciders reach drinkers mainly through independent shops and online box schemes rather than a farm shop or cider barn.
Buys apples from a blend of North Somerset orchards, including some that supplied the original Brake family cider business decades ago; exact orchard size and ownership not published.
What they make
- Medium Sweet Somerset Cider
- The Hidden Orchard dry
- Youngwood Tipple dry
- Balmoral Voyager sweet
- Rogue Rhubarb fruit cider
Visiting
No visitor premises found; sold through independent shops and online box schemes rather than direct from a farm.
Where to buy
- Touts, Cleeve Stockist
Also listed on the Boxlocal online box scheme, though its Brakes Cider page currently shows no stock