nickD Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Love a bit of Thatchers or Blackthorn. Recently been hitting the Old Rosie as its sold in Weatherspoons pubs in the midlands now in cask. woo hoo!!I don't understand how people can drink Fosters or crap 'beer' like that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numbeast Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Although a real ale drinkiner generally a nice pint if cider does go down well. My preferance is towards proper ciders like cheddar valley or thatchers but in their absence then it's gotta be Blackforn with a slice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordofthebling Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Valid point, stella or grolsch for me - not that crappy fosters, carling XXXX stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Old Rascal is the about the loveliest pint of cider you'll find.The problem is getting hold of it.I know of only one place sells it on draught and one other that sells through' bottles.The other problem is that its headbangingly strong at 6.0%.Three pints and you know you've had 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo1bc Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 I'm sure my problem with Cider is a common one... Major overdose stories from when I was teenager... They sell Natch in 3L bottles after all!I like a decent pint of scrumpy but that fizzy crap just makes me sick nowadays...White Lightning anyone!! WTF!!!I drink Guiness and have the waistline to prove it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffleflap Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 I like a good ol can of natch now and again but stella is the main one for me.(as you can see by the gut that is forming on my sig)I used to get this cider called Kingston Black and i think it was about 10%abv and after 2 pints of that your body didnt seem to be yours anymore.They used to sell it by the gallon in the shops opposite the happy landings pub.Off your rocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRaw Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Although its Guiness, smooth beer or real ales in the winter months, during the majority of the year it has to be Cider....High Street bars....Blackthorn not that nasty StrongbowProper Pubs....ooooh, Thatchers (various), Westons, Natch etcOut in the sticks.......moonshine anyone?Shall hope to be inhabiting the Bag o'nails, Mardyke and Nova on Saturday for a top up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WillsbridgeRed Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Can't stand the stuff. Even the smell of it turns my stomach.←Same here fellaMainly because the smell reminds me of being paraletic on the stuff in Newquay once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderEagle Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Used to drink snakebite when I was a lad ... half lager half cider for those that don't know. Tastes like a soft drink, kicks like a Mississippi mule.Four pints and you're incapable, five and you're incontinent, six and you're inanimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WillsbridgeRed Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Used to drink snakebite when I was a lad ... half lager half cider for those that don't know. Tastes like a soft drink, kicks like a Mississippi mule.Four pints and you're incapable, five and you're incontinent, six and you're inanimate.←A drink favoured by students I belive.My mrs downed a Cider and a Lager to get us to leave a pub a few months ago. Obviously might as well of had 4 snakebites so when we got home she couldn't stand up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderEagle Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 A drink favoured by students I belive.←Yeah, a very cheap way to get (I said a naughty word). Many pubs in Sheffield refused to serve it, but they WOULD sell you a half of lager and a half of cider together. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Used to drink snakebite when I was a lad ... half lager half cider for those that don't know. Tastes like a soft drink, kicks like a Mississippi mule.Four pints and you're incapable, five and you're incontinent, six and you're inanimate.←six and you're inanimate???******* hell mate, I don't think I ever finished my second pint of snakebite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderEagle Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 six and you're inanimate???******* hell mate, I don't think I ever finished my second pint of snakebite.←Never made six, but managed four one night and WISHED I was dead. I think both lager and cider are stronger now, so don't feel too bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Cider is rough, and i would say a lot of people just drink it because of its percentage, not because they like it.←Nope, i genuinely prefer cider to anything else.Blackthorn or Natch.Lager comes a close second then Guiness (occassionaly with a bit of Port) hehehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordofthebling Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Snakebite rocks my world!They may sell half a pint of cider and lager, but its the splash of blackcurrant that pulls it all together.Very strange stuff.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Me The Money! Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Snakebite rocks my world!They may sell half a pint of cider and lager, but its the splash of blackcurrant that pulls it all together.Very strange stuff....←Add a shot of Pernod too. Expensive pint but bloody gorgeous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 That'd be about the time.....I guess Dixie, looked 20 years over his age, as a result of drinking his own cider. I graduated onto Weston's of Much Marcle.....this being pre its most famous son and developed a taste for their perry.←Weston's cider of Much Marcle Herefordshire have got a real winner with their Stowford Press brand - probably the very best cider, for the money, you can buy on draught. Not many pubs sell Stowford Press on draught at the moment but it'll catch on - a far better product than Blackthorn made by Matthew Clark or Strongbow made by Bulmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 prefer a pint of fosters anytime of the week ←Same here, Fostors, Carling, Carlsberg or Coors is my drink. I hate all Cider, makes me really close to being sick just sipping it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myoudale Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 i don't really like cider but if thats the only drink in the pub then i might have 1 but only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evocare Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 I'm sure most of you have been to the Corry tap in Clifton, excellent Cider pub and the expedition will utterly cane you, its only sold in half pints as 4 pints (8glasses) and your fooooked!I can't drink the stuff now, the smell makes me wretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scrumpy dare Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 cider does a prapper job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider hoss rules Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Blackthorn/ Strongbow has to be my preffered pint.←Gaymers Old English fer I CHR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MaloneFM Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Obviously the Pimms.Occasionally a Chateu Lafete 1953 from the southern vineyard obviously. A nice bottle of Bollinger. Or when realxing.A bottle of Brasso filtered through a loaf of bread.Mmmm....I can't see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo1bc Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Having re-read this topic I've decided we must be the sorriest bunch of west country folk on the planet...We ain't very proper Bristle are we if we're talking about Fosters & Carlsberg?! Or me with me Guiness!Our bloody anthem is 'Drink up ye Cider' but to drink the stuff makes most of us retch...I bet Adge Cutler is turning in his grave (is he dead?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderEagle Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Having re-read this topic I've decided we must be the sorriest bunch of west country folk on the planet...We ain't very proper Bristle are we if we're talking about Fosters & Carlsberg?! Or me with me Guiness!Our bloody anthem is 'Drink up ye Cider' but to drink the stuff makes most of us retch...I bet Adge Cutler is turning in his grave (is he dead?)←You are correct of course. Maybe those of us who hate the stuff could take a pledge to drink cider and only cider on match days? Who's with me ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WillsbridgeRed Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 What rubbishBristol is a wealthy modern City, thank god the link to Cider drinking is diminishing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo1bc Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 What rubbishBristol is a wealthy modern City, thank god the link to Cider drinking is diminishing←Careful not to choke on your cappucino Clifton boy, and yes, thank god a part of local tradition is diminishing so that we can all drink foreign lager and end up with a Yates as a local. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WillsbridgeRed Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Careful not to choke on your cappucino Clifton boy, and yes, thank god a part of local tradition is diminishing so that we can all drink foreign lager and end up with a Yates as a local. ←Clifton - Yeah nice one MuhamedCider has a shocking image, and one that doesn't sit with a regional capital such as Bristol.Not that it affects you though, I didn't think you could drink, or are you only a muslim when it suits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Obviously the Pimms.Occasionally a Chateu Lafete 1953 from the southern vineyard obviously. A nice bottle of Bollinger. Or when realxing.A bottle of Brasso filtered through a loaf of bread.Mmmm....I can't see ←Chateu Lafete ???What do you do with the bread after the filtration process? I expect there are some sick ducks in your pond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo1bc Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Clifton - Yeah nice one MuhamedYou really are a racist little douchebag ya know. I don't think you even realise it.What do you say to Asian people when you don't know their name? "Yeah, nice one Mr Singh"Cider has a shocking image, and one that doesn't sit with a regional capital such as Bristol.Not that it affects you though, I didn't think you could drink, or are you only a muslim when it suits?←A regional capital hey?! Wooo.. Yep, definately from Clifton.Sorry if the west country image shocks or embarrasses you clifton. You should be proud of where you come from. Why does cider have a shocking image anyway? I was thinking of more rosy faced farmer with a bit 'o scrump under a tree but you don't see many of those on Park Street I guess.And how can cider have a worse image than lager? I've never heard of a cider lout and I'm sure that most of the trouble either at games or in town on a saturday has nowt to do with cider.And what does me being muslim have to do with the subject? I never said I was a practising muslim and even if I was I think I'm still allowed to see the irony of 10'000 people singing 'drink up ye cider' when most of 'em won't touch a drop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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