3 Hammers

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3 Hammers (sometimes called Three Hammers) is a strong white cider{{Cite web

|url=http://www.james-crowden.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=30

|title=The murky world of white cider

|author=James Crowden

|archive-date=20 March 2012

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320172524/http://www.james-crowden.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=30

}} made in Tiverton, Devon, England by the Aston Manor Brewery. Before 2009 it was made by the Devon Cider Company, until that company went into administration in 2009{{Cite news

|url=http://www.tivertonpeople.co.uk/news/Cider-Tap-Dry-Tiverton-Brewery/story-4561802-detail/story.html

|title=Could the Cider Tap go Dry at a Tiverton Brewery?

|newspaper=Mid Devon Gazette

|date=22 October 2009

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008083643/http://www.tivertonpeople.co.uk/news/Cider-Tap-Dry-Tiverton-Brewery/story-4561802-detail/story.html

|archive-date=8 October 2011

}} and was taken over by Aston Manor.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/8m-rescue-cider-firm-set-invest-4m-Westcountry/story-13288615-detail/story.html

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114025539/http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/8m-rescue-cider-firm-set-invest-4m-Westcountry/story-13288615-detail/story.html

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=14 January 2013

|title=£8m rescue cider firm set to invest further £4m in Westcountry plant

|publisher=This is Devon

|date=8 September 2011

|access-date=2012-08-24

}}

The cider is named after a small village near Tiverton.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

The strength and cheapness of this and similar white ciders has made them subject to calls for higher taxation to reduce the potential for abuse.

{{Cite web

|title=White Cider and street drinkers: Recommendations to reduce harm

|publisher=Alcohol Concern

|date=April 2011

|url=http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=21222

|type=pdf

|page=17

|access-date=2016-04-08

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512013905/http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/EasySiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=21222&type=full&servicetype=Attachment

|archive-date=2015-05-12

|url-status=dead

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In 2006 a litre of 3 Hammers could be bought for £1.19, cheaper by volume than a bottle of Perrier water at 99p for 75 cl.{{cite web

|url=http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Drugs-tsar-urges-ministers-to.2832316.jp

|title=Drugs tsar urges ministers to up price of 'antisocial' cider - Edinburgh Evening News

|publisher=Edinburgh Evening News

|date = 4 December 2006

|access-date=2011-02-24

|last=Swanson |first=Ian

}}