Family-owned cider brand to headline Glastonbury

Brothers Drinks are set to provide the official cider for the Glastonbury Festival (June 22-26) this year.

When thinking of the Glastonbury Festival, we might think of music, ruined tents and copious quantities of mud. However, cider has also been a fixture of the Festival – an inevitable result of it taking place in Somerset.

Cider making has been in the Showering family for fourteen generations, with records suggesting 1658 as the company’s birth year. The first Glastonbury Festival took place some 312 years later in 1970, and was given the slightly less catchy name of the Pilton Pop, Folk & Blues Festival.

Michael Eavis, the creator of the Festival, said: “Local provenance and heritage is important to us, so we love having a Somerset cider producer at the festival to showcase some of the best this county has to offer…Brothers Cider is produced less than three miles from the festival site and we have proudly welcomed them every year for the last 27 years.”

Although Thatchers got the Glastonbury gig for three years starting in 2014, Brothers have stolen the show and are bringing something new to this year’s event. Their Festival Apple 5% ABV English Cider is set to give attendees a medium dry taste of Somerset. Brothers Cider will be sold at more than one hundred bars in and around the event. For those unable to get tickets, but eager for a memento, 20 cans of the cider can be yours for £20.

Acts this year include Paul McCartney (formerly of Wings) and Billie Eilish.