Babycham Glass - 1950s Collectible Memorabilia

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Babycham deer revamped to celebrate its Somerset homecoming". BBC News. 7 December 2021 . Retrieved 4 February 2022.

The deer below dates from the 60s. He’s perkier than the earlier deer, golden brown and leaping to the left, front legs down. He has a particularly “blousey” blue bow. The drink took the place of other “ladylike” options, such as a port and lemon, or a medicinal milk stout for the maturer woman.

A vintage beermat with the classic advertising slogan, ‘I’d love a Babycham.’ Photograph: Some Wonderful Old Things/Alamy Browse FREE Original Babycham Glasses Price & Value Guide. FIND 1000's of Antiques, Art, Vintage & RARE Collectables - each item pictured, described and with it's price guide. Babycham In Cath Kidston Logo Legal Battle". Sky News. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013 . Retrieved 27 February 2013. Based in Shepton Mallet, the Showering family have been in the drinks industry for 14 generations and have recently enjoyed renewed success with a reinvention of traditional West Country cider. Matthew and his brothers – Jonathan, Francis and Daniel – set up Brothers Drinks in the 1990s and are now official partners of Glastonbury festival. During the 1960s, Showerings stopped brewing beer to concentrate on cider and perry. Production of Babycham went from 300 dozen bottles an hour to 2,800 dozen. At the peak in June 1973 144,000 bottles were being produced each hour. To supply the production line, perry pears were planted in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Hereford. Until suitable trees could be grown locally, pear juice was imported from Switzerland. [9] The profits helped to pay for the landscaping of the gardens at the company's headquarters at Kilver Court. [10]

The Babycham legacy means a lot for the family, said Matthew Showering. “It’s very special, as it almost defines our family. It changed everything.”Davis, Fred (1995). The Anglo / The History of the Anglo Bavarian Brewery Shepton Mallet 1864 – 1994. Haskins. pp.120–123. ASIN B000S36AQM. Davis, Fred (1995). The Anglo / The History of the Anglo Bavarian Brewery Shepton Mallet 1864 – 1994. Haskins. pp.104–106. ASIN B000S36AQM. The little bottles still sell, and the brand has even gained a camp, vintage mystique, but the rise of alcopops and mixer drinks has seriously challenged its position in the beverage business. All this information on dating is to the best of my knowledge, so if you know better please do correct me as I’d genuinely be delighted to know! The 50s Deer Perry has been made in the west of England for centuries but pears are notoriously difficult to harvest at the right point. Showering’s version was commercially viable because it used a juice concentrate.

Davis, Fred (1995). The Anglo / The History of the Anglo Bavarian Brewery Shepton Mallet 1864 – 1994. Haskins. pp.115–116. ASIN B000S36AQM. We will get closer to the original production method and recipe, as some things got chiselled away for speed with mass production. And we are going towards the original look too, so we’ll have quite a retro feel which, oddly, will make it more modern.”

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Thorpe, Vanessa (26 February 2023). "Make mine a Babycham! Return of the drink that added sparkle to the 70s". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712 . Retrieved 27 February 2023. In 1978, the Babycham company was sued by French Champagne producers for abuse of their trade name. The case ( H P Bulmer Ltd and Showerings Ltd v J Bollinger SA [1978] RPC 79) hinged on the fact that Babycham had been described in advertising as ‘champagne perry’ or ‘champagne cider’. Champagne producers were litigating to protect their goodwill but because there would not actually be confusion, they were unsuccessful. [11] Norman, Philip (May 2004). Babycham Night: A Boyhood at the End of the Pier (Extract: The Way We Drank— Babycham). Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-48056-1. Archived from the original on 15 March 2006 . Retrieved 20 April 2006. His grandson says the family story is that Francis asked a neighbouring French au pair what “pear” was in French and so dubbed his new drink “Champagne de Poire”. Babycham Collectables". Miller's antiques and collectables. Archived from the original on 7 September 2014 . Retrieved 27 February 2013.