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lager and stout, differentiated
by their fermentation and the
hops and malt used. Almost 300
vineyards, producing red, white,
rosé and sparkling wine, are
planted along the South Coast.
They include Cornwall’s cele-
brated Camel Valley, responsible
for an award-winning rosé.
West Country cider-makers use
sour cider apples and smaller
producers sell scrumpy, which
Colourful fresh fruit and vegetable stall selling good-value produce is an unfiltered, uncarbonated
and particularly strong cider.
Sussex and Hampshire. Sea responsible for producing the Kent producers use sweeter
bass, cod, mackerel and bream world’s hottest chilli, the fiery dessert apples to make lighter
are fished throughout the year Dorset Naga, while Hampshire cider. Long a favourite tipple, gin
from Kent to Cornwall. The has been the English centre is now produced at nearly 250
warmer waters of the southwest of watercress cultivation since English gin distill eries, including
attract red mullet, and the the 19th century. many craft gin-makers.
coasts of Devon and Cornwall
are the preferred habitat of SOUTH COAST CHEESES
shellfish and crustaceans, What to Drink
including mussels and lobster. Local pubs usually carry a good Beenleigh Blue Moist, crumbly
selection of local beers. There Devon ewe’s-milk cheese with
are some 230 breweries and bold green-blue veins.
Fruit and Vegetables
microbreweries in southern Cheddar Firm, nutty and from
The South Coast’s mild climate is England. The principal types of Somerset, with a sting on the
ideal for the cultivation of fruit beer are ale (including bitter), finish depending on maturity.
and vege ta bles. The county of Cornish Yarg Creamy, semi-hard
Kent is known as the “Garden of and fresh-tasting cow’s-milk
England” for its glorious apple cheese with a mouldy nettle rind.
orchards and fields of hops Dorset Blue Vinny Light and
and soft fruits. Apples also grow crumbly skimmed-milk cheese
well in the fertile countryside with fine blue veins.
of Sussex and Somerset. Golden Cross Soft, raw Sussex
A range of vegetables is goat’s-milk cheese, log-shaped and
grown through out the region. covered in a velvety white rind.
Above average annual hours Old Winchester Firm, dry
of sunshine make Isle of Wight and tasty with a washed rind,
tomatoes and garlic the best in Flagons of scrumpy for sale at a local nicknamed “Old Smales”.
the UK. Surprisingly, Dorset is farm shop in Cornwall

Fish and chips consists of Somerset honeyed pork stew Sussex pond pudding contains
battered, deep-fried white fish is cooked in a sauce with apple whole lemons, butter and sugar,
and potato chips, traditionally juice and honey, which flavour which are encased in suet pastry
served wrapped in newspaper. and tenderize the pork. and steamed for several hours.

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