Cider Sunday Sessions w/ Rochdale Cider & Gastro Park

Starting next Sunday, you can visit Bondi's Beach Road Hotel to get your Sunday Cider fix. 

New Zealand's Rochdale Cider and Gastro Park chef Grant King have teamed up to bring us their 'Beached As' Sunday Sessions which will run every Sunday through the months of December and January.

A specially crafted menu will feature three dishes, each of which are available to purchase with a Rochdale cider for $12.50. 

Choices include the following:

Cider Slider

Cider baked pig, crunchy crackles & apple celeriac slaw

Crispy Claw

Crispy cider batter, encasing soft shell crab claws, zingy lemon and lime mayonnaise, wrapped in a crisp lettuce leaf with cucumber and coriander.

The Rochdale Frostie

Cider caramelised apple ice cream, granny smith popping candy.

Rochdale Cider

This brightly coloured traditional cider has a light to medium carbonation and a unique cider flavour which you find with more traditional methods of cider making. It is not overly sweet and has a nice balanced apple flavour. A medium dry cider, it is made using tree ripened NZ grown apples and has no preservatives which is a big plus for me. It is a perfect choice for a hot day as it is rfereshing and crisp.

Rochdale is brewed the traditional way by McCashin's in Nelson, New Zealand, whose products are renowned for their use of Palaeo water. You may remember my review of Saxton Apple Cider which also features this famed ingredient. 

Reported as the purest water in the world, it is said to be sourced from one of the oldest and purest water aquifers known to man - untouched for up to 260 centuries. 

Rochdale Cider was actually voted Best Cider (NZ) at the 2012 Beer & Brewer Awards in Australia.

At 5% alcohol, a 330ml bottle will provide you with 1.3 standard drinks.

It terms of food pairing, I don't think you can look past the menu planned by Grant King. Pork, Crab or Caramelised apple ice cream. Yes please!

Rochdale Cider & Gastro Park 'Beached As' combos will be available each Sunday at The Beach Road Hotel's newly launched outdoor bar, The Backyard. 

Rochdale Cider is available at the following hotels in NSW.

BEACH ROAD HOTEL	NSWACT
NORTHIES HOTEL	NSWACT
MONA VALE HOTEL	NSWACT
CARGO HOTEL	NSWACT
BEACH HOTEL - BYRON BAY	NSWACT
CLOVELLY HOTEL	NSWACT
STEYNE HOTEL	NSWACT
PYRMONT BRIDGE HOTEL	NSWACT
PONTOON BAR	NSWACT
GREENWOOD HOTEL - NORTH SYDNEY	NSWACT
SUGAR MILL / KIT & KABOODLE	NSWACT
RYANS BAR - SYDNEY	NSWACT
ROYAL HOTEL - ARMIDALE	NSWACT
ROBIN HOOD HOTEL - ORANGE	NSWACT
MARLBOROUGH HOTEL - NEWTOWN	NSWACT
CELLARBRATIONS BONNELLS BAY - BAY HOTEL	NSWACT
GRANGE HOTEL - WYOMING	NSWACT
PARAGON HOTEL - SYDNEY	NSWACT
CECIL HOTEL - CASINO	NSWACT
OCEAN SHORES TAVERN	NSWACT
HOTEL CREMORNE	NSWACT
LONGYARD HOTEL	NSWACT
AUSTRALIAN HOTEL - STH GRAFTON	NSWACT
PLUMPTON HOTEL	NSWACT
OCEAN BEACH HOTEL - UMINA	NSWACT
COLONIAL HOTEL - WERRINGTON	NSWACT
TOWN HALL HOTEL - NEWTOWN	NSWACT
SEAVIEW TAVERN	NSWACT
CHARCOAL INN HOTEL - CASINO	NSWACT
TEA GARDENS HOTEL - BONDI	NSWACT
ROYAL HOTEL - ORANGE	NSWACT
THE PUB - TAMWORTH	NSWACT
RAILWAY TAVERN - GLEN INNES	NSWACT
WESTSIDE HOTEL - DUBBO	NSWACT
HARRIGANS IRISH PUB - POKOLBIN	NSWACT
GOLDEN SHEAF HOTEL	NSWACT
SHOAL BAY RESORT	NSWACT
KENT HOTEL - HAMILTON	NSWACT
ORCHARD TAVERN - CHATSWOOD	NSWACT
KELLYS ON KING	NSWACT
CLUB HOTEL - WATTLE GROVE	NSWACT
BONDI HOTEL	NSWACT
BELMORE HOTEL - SCONE	NSWACT
LIGHTNING RIDGE BOWLING CLUB	NSWACT
SAWTELL HOTEL	NSWACT
TAREN POINT HOTEL	NSWACT
ST JAMES HOTEL	NSWACT
IMPERIAL HOTEL - WEE WAA	NSWACT
NAMBUCCA HOTEL - MACKSVILLE	NSWACT
PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL - MUSWELLBROOK	NSWACT
VINEYARDS HOTEL - TOURMALINE	NSWACT
GLADSTONE HOTEL - DULWICH HILL	NSWACT
REVESBY PACIFIC	NSWACT
HARBORD BEACH HOTEL	NSWACT
MARLIN HOTEL - ULLADULLA	NSWACT
UNITY HALL HOTEL - BALMAIN	NSWACT
POST OFFICE HOTEL - MOREE	NSWACT
BWS - NEW BRIGHTON HOTEL MANLY	N

To find your local stockist contact McCashin's by emailing them at enquiries@mccashins.co.nz or check out their Facebook page here

Beached As - Sunday Sessions
Where: The Backyard - Outdoor Bar
The Beach Road Hotel 
71 Beach Road,
Bondi, NSW

When: Sunday's from December 9, 2012 through to end of January.

The Food Mentalist sampled Rochdale Cider compliments of Rochdale Cider & One Green Bean