What's your favorite cider?
 

1) Bulmers
2) Mercury

Westons
my friend's homemade brew
Gaymers
Dunkertons
some of the smaller local ones from Herefordshire, Somerset and Brittany
Strongbow, Woodpecker, Magners, Mercury and the other "proper" mass-produced ones are okay too.
The cheapies are generally sulphurous and disgusting.
BTW cider should be served in earthenware or stoineware mugs, NOT glass, and should NEVER (Magner ad makers etc please note) be served over ice!
Good Wurzels fare.

I think cider varies a lot and can be a very local product. My fave is Merridale Cidery here on Vancouver Island, in Canada, but they don't pasteurize it, so it has to be kept refrigerated and it has a shorter shelf life than a lot of booze. They grow their own apples and they produce a varied range of ciders and I love their bistro as well as their location in the Cow(ichan) Valley.

http://www.merridalecider.com/ciderhouse/products

I will have to try some of these when I get back up to the UK next year. Interesting point about serving in earthenware. I tend to drink it in class and love it over ice on a hot summer Sydney day but I will try drinking it out of clay next time!

Will concede the ice for Sydney and other hot places!
You will notice a difference with the earthenware. Herefordshire friends drink it in mugs and my sister brought me some special earthernware cider bowls over from France - it shoudln't make any difference to the taste but it does!

Bulmers which is now Magners and if I'm in the West Country whatever sort of Scrumpy Jack can be had. :) I love ciders.

Robinetts in Grand Rapids Michigan or GRR for you cold hearted flyers!

Bartlett's in Pittsfield, MA - fresh off the press. Haven't had it in 15-20 years and no idea if they're still there.

Original Woodchuck

Woodpecker - I had this at the Soho Kitchen in NYC - delicious!

http://www.woodpeckercider.us/

There was a little place up in Oak Glen, California that made the most exquisite Apple Wine... Not a syrupy sweet cider, but a dry wine with essentially *no* residual sugar...lik a zinfandel but a big apple nose. I haven't been back up there in years, so I have no idea if they still exist.

Boones Farm? :D

Here in Ireland they call cider " Knacker's Champagne. " - a knacker being a derogatory term for gypsies !
Incidentally even though it's often cold and wet over here cider has been served from a bottle over ice for some time.
Personally I like cider to be very dry.

I do, too. Some of the large-scale commercial stuff is way too sweet. I like that Merridale (mentioned above) has a range of ciders that they make, and you can find the one that suits your taste best.

Try some of these:


http://www.dunkertons.co.uk/
http://www.westons-cider.co.uk/
http://www.vintageroots.co.uk/list.asp?product=16
http://www.ukcider.co.uk/recomm.htm

A dry, still cider is a completely different drink from the normal sweet sparkling one, and can be a bit of an acquired taste.