Jane Peyton is an award-winning beer sommelier, writer, broadcaster and founder of the School of Booze – a drinks consultancy and corporate events production company. The company stated that the complainant was incorrect in referring to the Government guidelines (UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMOs’ guidelines) as a recommended daily allowance. The company noted that the guidelines did not state that men must not exceed 3-4 units in one day but rather that men should not regularly exceed 3-4 units in one day, “regularly” being every day or most days of the week. The company also noted that regardless of how the Government guidelines are to be interpreted they are only guidelines and not law. In any event, subsequent to the complaint (in May 2015) and the Panel’s initial decision in this matter (in December 2015), the CMOs had proposed (in January 2016) and subsequently adopted (in August 2016) new Low Risk Drinking Guidelines for men and women which did not specify any daily guidelines for single drinking episodes. The company said that it was clear from the examples and preceding language that immoderate or irresponsible consumption in rule 3.2(f) refers only to serious overindulgence such as drink driving, binge–drinking or drunkenness. The consumption of 4.2 units of alcohol in one sitting cannot be considered to be immoderate or irresponsible.

Britain is one of the world’s leading producers of cider, with fifty-six percent of all the apples grown in the UK used to create it – so it’s no surprise that we also produce the most diverse range of styles. Cider has refreshed the palates of countless Britons for millennia, but if you asked a person in the street how cider is made they would invariably say that it was brewed. It’s not – cider is made by pressing apples and fermenting the juice, more akin to wine than beer. In Britain there is a geographical split in the types of apples used to make cider. In the West Country (Somerset, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Devon, Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire) traditional cider apple varieties are grown in the local orchards. They have evocative and poetic names such as Handsome Norman, Foxwhelp and Porter’s Perfection. Kent, Sussex and eastern counties such as Suffolk are the traditional heartlands of cider made with domestic apples familiar to anyone with a fruit bowl – Gala, Russet and Cox are just three popular varietals that end up in a glass of cider. This product is incredibly high strength, served in a non-resealable can and is not designed to be shared. I would argue that it is impossible to drink it responsibly as each one contains more than a mans recommended daily allowance and twice as much as a woman’s in each 500ml serving.UK Chief Medical Officers’ Drinking Guidelines, August 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545937/UK_CMOs__report.pdf For several years Jane has been an Ambassador for Friends of Glass, the consumer-facing arm of the British Glass Association. She is an ambassador for the smart phone app ‘Pint Please’ and the ‘Long Live The Local’ pub campaign.

Jane was the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Britain's first Beer Sommelier of the Year. She is the instigator and driving force of the UK’s annual national beer day – Beer Day Britain (15 June 15). She is a former Imbibe Magazine Drinks Educator of the Year. For her beer work she was awarded the title Outstanding Individual Achievement in Beer from the Beer & Cider Marketing Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Britain’s All Party Parliamentary Beer Group. But let’s return to real cider. Just like wine with grapes, the finished cider will be influenced by the variety of apple. The easiest way of categorising British styles is to focus on the type of apple used to produce the cider – cider apples or domestic eating and cooking apples. There is a vast difference between the two in the characteristics of the finished cider. If on inspection there is any damage or shortage it is imperative that this is noted on the delivery note at the time of delivery as claims will not be considered if this is not completed.Offshore Island deliveries will take longer than two days including Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Scottish Highlands and Islands and Scilly Isles. Top 10 Chocolates Top 15 Chewing Gums Kinder’s Product Range Nutella’s Product Range Ferrero’s Product Range Kit Kat Range Cadbury Range The recommended weekly alcohol limit in the UK for men and women is 14 units, which is the same as 5 and a half pints of 4.5% cider. If you are drinking ‘super-strength’ cider, that comes down to around 3 pints.