What's your favorite cider?
Oct 16, 2007 | 12:15 am
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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.
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.
Oct 16, 2007 | 12:20 am
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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
http://www.merridalecider.com/ciderhouse/products
Oct 16, 2007 | 1:09 am
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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.
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.
Oct 16, 2007 | 1:39 am
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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!
I love ciders.
Oct 18, 2007 | 5:23 am
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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.
Oct 19, 2007 | 8:35 pm
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Oct 20, 2007 | 12:15 am
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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.
Oct 20, 2007 | 4:53 am
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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.
Oct 20, 2007 | 8:45 am
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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.
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.
Oct 20, 2007 | 10:31 am
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Oct 20, 2007 | 10:40 am
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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.
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.