Cider - Underated & Underdrunked

**Marmite the Dog** · 07-09-2006, 11:40 AM

This thread is almost making me wish that I liked cider.

**peterpan** · 07-09-2006, 02:47 PM

When I stay at my mums place in the land of Oz, I like to drink Cider, Its makes a change from Beer and my mother won't think that I am a terminal pisshead. Next time I go will do a review on Ozzie Ciders.

**daveboy** · 09-09-2006, 07:34 PM

This is todays tipple, I am also using this for todays lunch I am making stand up chicken using cider instead of beer, I was inspired by surasak's pub 'n' grill thread.

**man with no head** · 11-09-2006, 02:48 PM

^So how did it turn out?

**daveboy** · 11-09-2006, 09:21 PM

^Crispy skin very moist meat in a word beautiful

**kingwilly** · 11-09-2006, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by peterpan

When I stay at my mums place in the land of Oz, I like to drink Cider, Its makes a change from Beer and my mother won't think that I am a terminal pisshead. Next time I go will do a review on Ozzie Ciders.

Strong Bow Dry - standard aussie cider - quite drinkable.

Mercury - buy them buy the case - cos they dont last long.

Bastard OP - start a thread on the availabilty of cheap decent cider here after I leave. and too think all those years I wasted drinking Heinekin.

**Marmite the Dog** · 11-09-2006, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by kingwillyhggtb

Strong Bow Dry - standard aussie cider - quite drinkable.

If Strongbow is Aussie, I'm Dame Edna.

**daveboy** · 12-09-2006, 03:51 AM

Strongbow originates in the uk but is available around the world.

**daveboy** · 12-09-2006, 03:55 AM

Bulmers Cider was founded in 1887 in Hereford, England by Percy Bulmer, the twenty year old son of the local rector at Credenhill, taking his mother's advice to make a career in food or drink 'because neither ever go out of fashion'.
Using apples from the orchard at his father's rectory and an old stone press on the farm next door, Percy made the first drop of cider upon which the family fortune would be made. Today HP Bulmer makes 65% of the five million hectolitres of cider sold annually in the United Kingdom and the bulk of the UK's cider exports.
His elder brother, Fred, coming down from King College, Cambridge, turned down the offer of a post as tutor to the children of the King of Siam, to join Percy in his fledgling cider business. A lady called Anna got the job instead and hence the musical film, The King and I.

**NickA** · 12-09-2006, 11:45 AM

I used to drink shit cider - 2 quid for a litre and a half of 9% shit - White lightning, Electric white errr... Electric Lightning......

**daveboy** · 08-10-2006, 10:23 PM

I picked this up today at a Kentish farmers market its the rfeal McCoy

**Thetyim** · 08-10-2006, 10:26 PM

I like the name

**Skyline** · 17-10-2006, 09:26 PM

Cider is indeed an underated beverage.I remember vaguely being at Glastonbury in 1992 and sampling a fine scrumpy from a VW camper.It must be said that I dont remember trying to snog Bjork backstage,although my friends swear i did.

In Camberwell,London, there is a pub called the Phoenix and Firkin.They sell a nice scrumpy there!

**flash** · 22-10-2006, 12:20 AM

Sadly there are no more firkin bars as they were bought out by bass who changed there name to 6 continents.

**kingwilly** · 22-10-2006, 05:23 AM

Originally Posted by peterpan

Hey, Fucking stop it, right! I am laughing so much I have a small wet patch in the crotch of my pants and my wife is wondering why I am laughing at the computor, she thinks I am mad and she's right (again)

hey - aint we all! on all accounts!

my missus doesnt understand my fascination with TD either... just as well too - cos i'd be in a world of hurt if she read half of my posts.....

**kingwilly** · 22-10-2006, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by danbo

These two bottles are empty. I have no idea why.

i often have the same problem - they just dont make bottles and glases the way they used to ..... buy a drink and b4 u know it its evaporated or drained out somewhere, a perpetual cycle of puchasing alcholl that never really gets savoured in teh way it should......

**kingwilly** · 22-10-2006, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

This thread is almost making me wish that I liked cider.

mate you ARE missing out ! cider is great - not all the time mind - but a quick freshener from time to time.

i quite like mercuries - tasmanian cider - not sure u can get in LOS

but i also gotta say this thread is a little to late for the likes of me that has left already

**Mr Earl** · 25-10-2006, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by Skulldigger

Originally Posted by danbo

Hats: I also feel that these are underated. Especially when worn unnecessarily.

What is your favourite type of hat?

The hat trick is the best kind.

Do they still have the bulmers woodpecker cider? That was nice change from ale sometimes.

**danbo** · 04-11-2006, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Do they still have the bulmers woodpecker cider? That was nice change from ale sometimes.

They do indeed - bit fizzy for my taste, although I wouldn't turn down the 'dry'.

This, my friends, is the fiend that brought me down off of the wagon of sobriety. A three litre box of strong organic cider. About 500B in Waitrose. Completely 'flat' (uncarbonated) and very refreshing despite the high alcohol content. Also extra convenient. The box fits nicely in the fridge and has a tap for ease of pouring. When nearly empty one has to pull the tap and inner bag out of the box and this can be a little disconcerting when drunk as it's easy to confuse the box with a tortoise and I foulnd myself apologising to it yesterday evening. The box states that the cider will stay fresh for six weeks after opening....yeah as if....

**DrAndy** · 04-11-2006, 07:29 PM

quite Dave. anyway, cider is like many products on the market today.

You can buy bread, beer, coffee etc etc and they can be mass produced and OK or made by a careful small producer and really good

we recently went on a trip to Somerset and tried some cider from the barrel, really wonderful...my wife did drink a little too much

I also remember when we were lads......we used to swarm down to some country pub in Kent. The pub sold cider wine, in small glasses, it was very strong

" aaarhhh, lads" the publican used to say "this 'ere is the best leg opener in the business"

and it was

**danbo** · 11-11-2006, 06:30 PM

Today I will be hunting down this nectar

6% I believe. The problem is that there is just no way I can avoid looking like a sad single bedsit dwelling heavy drinker as I turn up to the checkout with my shopping basket containing 2 packets of super-noodles, a knitting magazine, a dented tin of pie filling, and 3 litres of scrumpy - Still, it's me who'll be having the last laugh as I sit drunkenly in my bedsit eating pie filling straight out of the can, it's me that'll be laughing then.

**tuferguson** · 11-11-2006, 06:49 PM

thats one of the things I miss about the UK.

I used to enjoy a few cans of 1727. anyone remember that? I think its gone now, the last time I was home I couldnt find it.

K was the sam strngth but I didnt like it that much, too bitter.

I like going down to sin city aka pattaya to get my

strange how its so cheap down there compared to bangkok, Robin Hood and the Exchange are rip offs.

Mind you, at least Lolitas stock the cans

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