Cider drinkers?!
Cider drinkers?
What's your favourite cider folks? Sweet or dry? Proper scrumpy or mass produced stuff?
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Magners is magnificent - full bodied, strong and refreshing. I like Woodpecker in cans (chilled) on hot days when I am cooking - the taste is refreshing, the alcohol content is low enough to enable me to drink the stuff by the bucket without getting pissed (bear in mind I'm a chef, and if 50% of the wines I use in cooking do not end up in the chef, then I'm letting the Floyd - sorry, I meant side, down.
If I'm in the West Country - say Taunton, watching Somerset play cricket against my side (Essex), then I will drink scrumpy - it is excellent.
Now and again, I go to Normandy (France) to eat decent French food and revive my palate, ideas and enthusiasm for cooking. The Normans do a magnificent brandy-like drink made from apples called Calvados. Try it!
Pork is gorgeous when cooked in cider. My local sells Addlestones cloudy on draught, and I often take a jamjar-full home to marinade my porky dishes. Shhh. Don't tell the Rabbi - Pork is White Beef to me.
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My favourite cider is Magners.
Same here Magners Irish Cider the best
dry blackthorn used to be my tipple. since having my kids i cant drink it any more, just the smell makes me feel sick, which is a shame since i live in Somerset. we have a cider farm near us and we used to drink a lot of that. it was true gut rotting scrumpy that you could probably use as a petrol substitute.
Dry. There is a really nice one in Bristol called Old Rosie.
There is also one in Bristol called Black Rat which is so strong they only serve it in half pints.
I'm not really keen on Strong Bow. I havn't tried Magners as I've heard its very sweet.
Well, for me, from the commercial brands, Scrumpy Jack is the closest of all them to real apples, but it's really strong for sessions.
Magner's without the ice horrid. Strongbow, mainly chemicals.
Personally, dry cider is preferable.
The best of all though is called Broome Farm, brewed in Hoarwithy, Herefordshire, UK and sold on draught in The New Harp Inn
http://newharpinn.co.uk/
my favourite cider is triple vintage - medium. Do not like scrumpy.
Scrumpy...definitly! And no where else but in Cornwall
no no my friends the best is homemade I make cider to die for. I make two kinds one thats the "proper" way and one that natural using only natural yeast from the apples themselves both ways are much better than store bought brands. Lokk me up and lets drink a toast
strongbow and magners. also love the local produces as long as i know they are safe
As far as mass produced hard cider, I'm partial to Hormsby's.
i love strongbow cider
thatchers followed by sheppey's , kingston black is the best apple variety, best on draft aspall suffolk cyder.