Cider

To be fair i dont think cider usage has changed at all from 1999. I have friends and family who went to university and they all drank cider because it was cheap, i am the same, i drink cider at uni because it is cheap and i still would even if magners wasn't out. Also when has it been unacceptable to drink cider? Cold strongbow on a hot summers day is quite clearly the win.
 
I love cider, my uni mates used to take the mick a bit but they soon turned to my evil cider ways. Not much of a fan of magners i just think of it as cider for people who don't like cider. I remeber back in first year of uni, our xmas tree was made out of strongbow cans, i'll see if i can find the pic.
 
Try Stowford Press - that's a good pint of cider.

Bigpops said:
I'm off to Barnsley tonight, and there's plenty of Woodpecker there. Huzzah!
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I thought Woodpecker was made for Children? :p
 
I only drink the cider, when on holidays to the west country. Nothing like buying a 5l bottle of 9% maure lfavoured scrumpy jack. Some of the stuff can be a bit rough, but the famous cider farms make some cracking good drinks. Get it nice and dry, none of this sweet yuck.

As for Magners, urgg.
 
Kneecracker is my favourite scrumpy if only because it comes in plastic gallon jugs that look they had screenwash in them before :D
 
I'm a Herefordian so Strongbow is what I call home brew. It's one of the chepeast drinks (being a student) and I find it tastier than anything else anyway. most girls I know drink vodka based drinks just to get drunk :rolleyes: or whatever the latest 'cool' drink is. I like a good woodpecker on a hot day too :p Yumyumyum!!!!
 
Bulmers was founded in 1887 in Hereford, England by Percy Bulmer, the 20 year old son of a local clergyman, 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, young Percy made the first drop of cider upon which the family fortune would be made. Today Bulmers make 65% of the five million hectolitres sold annually in the UK and the bulk of the exports.
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bulmers irish cider is originally from irland (obviously) in the uk its called magners, magners is not bulmers, bulmers is different to bulmers irish cider (magners) :p. Bulmers was first made in Hereford and still is, the cider facotry and museum are still there. bulmers irland came after.
 
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cymatty said:
Depends which Bulmers is on sale. :)
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Exactly, and outside Ireland Bulmers is run by a competing company - I took that from your own link, nobber :p
 
Black Rat or Adlestones.

Both lovely, if you find them too sour, drink them with OJ, it makes them as easy to drink as strongbow and a lot lesss artificial tasting.
 
hardc0re_tid said:
not where im from, we have tins of pear cider called Koperberg
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I'm sorry but the Irish making cider is a laughable as the French doing it.

Koperberg sounds like a German lager. Is it nice? :)
 
Psycho Ned said:
You can get Kopparberg in Ikea......and no I'm not joking! Well you can in the Milton Keynes one anyway.

It's pretty nice.
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I found it rank, seemed like a very artificial taste kinda trying to taste of Pear.
 
the problem i find is that each year at summer you will find people drinking cider with ice, now with magners, they have just told people to suck eggs, just all year round. suddenly everyone is doing it even in winter.

stupid people caught up by marketing ploys.
 
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