The Only Gold Medal Taste Of The West Sausage Maker in Somerset!

Yes, that's right, the only gold medal sausage maker in Somerset. This year's Taste Of The West awards offered new challenges and much higher standards to achieve those coveted gold medals. In 2009, Taste Of The West awarded 13 golds, and only six were awarded this year, 2010. The bar had been raised (and we're delighted about that, because we think sausages are important!) and the competition was fierce.

So, how did we do? Would it be immodest to tell you that we won a third of all the gold medals and that we were the only sausage maker in Somerset to win a gold at these awards? Immodest maybe, we've been cackling with delight ever since the awards and good old Ivan is feeling vindicated that his recipes are the cat's pyjamas!

What did we get? Two golds and four silvers including our new, super-yummy Scotch Eggs. Here's the list:

Traditional Pork Sausages: Gold

Pork With Cracked Black Pepper: Gold

Pork and Burowhill Cider Sausages: Silver

Pork with Barber's 1833 Cheddar and Burrow Hill Cider: Silver

Pork With marmalade Sausages: Silver

Scotch Eggs: Silver

Not bad, eh? If you haven't tried the Barbers 1833 Cheddar and Burrow Hill Cider sausages yet, shame on you. Don't forget that there's an offer on for the next ten days or so that will let you buy Traditional Pork sausages and get our award winning Scotch Eggs FREE - don't hang about though, the offer ends as school starts.

We're in the running to be Champion of Champions!

On a blustery early November morning, Ivan set off, armed with his best sausages, heading for Bristol. It was the Britain's Magical Bangers competition for the south west area, a part of British Sausage Week, and Ivan was a contender. Against stiff competition, he scooped the title of South West Champion and will now go forward to the National Finals held at Smithfield, London next year. Read more here...

More Golds from BPEX

Goodness, we don't like to brag, but... well, we cleaned up at the BPEX awards this year taking a full set of golds for every entry.

Traditional Pork Sausages: Gold

Pork With marmalade Sausages: Gold

Pork and Burowhill Cider Sausages: Gold

Pork with Barber's 1833 Cheddar and Burrow Hill Cider: Gold

You've all heard the expression "Life's too short to stuff a mushroom", we have a better one!

Life's too short to eat dodgy sausages!

Pork with Barber's 1833 Cheddar and Burrow Hill Cider

Born of a conversation with another fine food producer and enthusiast, The Sausage Shed have launched Pork with Barber's 1833 Cheddar and Burrow Hill Cider sausages and they're creating a storm... of enjoyment! Available from the website and local markets, why not try some now?

Our Autumn 2009 Medal Haul

Never being ones to sit back on our laurels, we entered the Taste Of The West competition with our traditional pork, pork and marmalade, pork and Burrowhill cider and mustard, pork with cracked black pepper and pork with balsamic vinegar and onion sausages and here are the results:

Traditional Pork Sausages: Gold

Pork With marmalade Sausages: Gold

Pork and Burowhill Cider Sausages: Gold

Pork With Cracked Black Pepper Sausages: Gold

Pork With Balsamic Vinegar And Onion Sausages: Silver

We're pretty pleased with that set of results and next year will be a challenge to top it, but we have our wonderful Pork and Garlic Sausages as a secret weapon!

New Flavours

We have been trialing a new sausage, Pork and Garlic, and so far, it seems to be very popular. W are now going to regularly produce Pork and Garlic sausages and they will be available online too.

Taste tests have yielded comments like "Oh boy! These are utterly lush!" and "The garlic is strong enough to give these sausages a real kick and they will go with just about anything; delicious"

Now, there's just one thing we think we ought to warn you about. These sausages aren't for namby-pambies and if you have an important interview or are meeting a new date it may be better to eat these sausages after the event rather than before. Don't say you haven't been warned!

Gluten Free Sausages

How miserable would it be to know that Sausage Shed sausages are so delicious and have a gluten intolerance? Well, it's not a problem any more, as Ivan has worked his magic and now produces Gluten Free Sausages. You can order these by phoning or online. Not bad, eh?

To all of you, from us at The Sausage Shed - Thank you for reading and happy shopping!