Merrydown is a brand of cider manufactured in the EU . It was originally brewed at Horam Manor near Heathfield, East Sussex, England by the Merrydown brewery. The company was founded by 3 friends, Jack Ward, John Kelland-Knight and Ian Howie in 1946, as an attempt to bring cider-making back home to England. They each put up £100 to turn Jack's wine making hobby into a business. The Merrydown enterprise, named after Jack's house, was underway. The very first batch of Merrydown Apple Wine was fermented from 450 gallons of apple juice using a 300-year-old oak cider press borrowed from a local farmer and within a year the scale of production had outgrown Mr Ward's garage at his home in Rotherfield and the partners bought Horam Manor nine years later, with seven acres of land. By 1955, producti