The Best Cider Thread

WezV

Carling Cider , seriously very good for a mainstream cider

OK, hands up, I work for them so the main reason its now my cider of choice is I get quite a bit free. its not just that though, because I can also get Carling Lager and Magners cider free through work, but rarely do 

 But Carling Cider is a good quality, easy drinking cider.   Less chemically furry teeth than strongbow, less gassy than bulmers or magners, not over sweet like steel cidre and actually tastes appley.   

TTony

monquixote said: Aspels is the ultimate cider.  Aspals.  (as Mr Phil also noted).

Apart from that, you're right  

And I speak as someone who can't drink the beer anymore, so Cider it has to be.

monquixote

maltingsaudio said:

Pear cider isn't cider cider is made from Apples! With that as I'm gig less tonight so  off to the pub for a few pints of Addlestones and maybe a game of skittles

I was wondering about that. 

I'm pretty sure when I was a lad if it was made from pears it was perry.

EricTheWeary

monquixote;54563" said:

maltingsaudio said:



Pear cider isn't cider cider is made from Apples! With that as I'm gig less tonight so  off to the pub for a few pints of Addlestones and maybe a game of skittles





I was wondering about that. I'm pretty sure when I was a lad if it was made from pears it was perry.

it was Babycham!

Pyroman

  Probably not available in the UK, but I just love Angry Orchard cider.  DEE-LISH!

maltingsaudio

Update ........yup did the job and as to wez big respect but are you serious?

WezV

maltingsaudio said:

Update ........yup did the job and as to wez big respect but are you serious?

completely serious.  I think Carling Cider is the best cider on the market -  from a major brewer

Does it compare to the regional small batch cider?   probably not, but I think it does a much better job in that respect than any of the offerings from the other large scale ciders

I could have listed a load of ciders I have tried at small beer festivals that only existed for one summer and tasted like apples of Eden, instead i listed one that most people will like and actually be able to get.

I am always serious about drink. but i accept a distinction between mainstream, regional and small batch and have my favourites in each band

Ianpdq

maltingsaudio said:

If you read I was asking for recommendations on PEAR cider Zummerzet is well known for Scrumpy and I do know all about that arrrr

Pear cider isn't cider cider is made from Apples! With that as I'm gig less tonight so  off to the pub for a few pints of Addlestones and maybe a game of skittles

Not according to wiki   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider

stickyfiddle

monquixote said:

Aspalls is the ultimate cider. 

This! Have wisdom

Addlestones is also excellent. 

Anything else is just nowhere near.

holnrew

Anything from outside Somerset isn't worth keeping in a beaker on the bedside table.

EricTheWeary

In q at Tesco. Thatchers Rose on the conveyor belt. Looks nice

bertie

holnrew said:

Anything from outside Somerset isn't worth keeping in a beaker on the bedside table.

I refer you to Sandfords,      Inch's in the old days when it was made in Winkleigh was the #1  permier scrumpy money could buy.

VimFuego

http://www.winkleighcider.com/

 

comes highly recommended, though I have yet to try it (despite having driven past them several times now).

holnrew

I thing stuff from elsewhere is perfectly fine, in fact I probably mostly drink Westons.

Longtallronnie

Aspal premier cru is lovely, it's also around 7.5%.

I was in Swanage earlier in the year drinking in a pub with a blackboard full of different local/guest ciders. I vaguely remember an 8%er that tasted so much like regular apple juice it was frightening. 

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary;55082" said:

In q at Tesco. Thatchers Rose on the conveyor belt. Looks nice

Ooh, that's quite nice. Can still taste apple, quite sweet but bit of tartness.

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Ianpdq

Had a pint of Thatchers Traditional today  lush

ICBM

Westons is good. Old Mout from New Zealand is too…

Bulmer's Special Reserve used to be great before Bulmers went all corporate some time in the 80s. I grew up in Herefordshire and Worcestershire so I would have to dispute that all good Cider comes from Somerset , but I would agree than a lot of the good stuff does. I had some spectacularly great local stuff one lunchtime somewhere near Taunton about thirty years ago, no idea what it was called but it was absolutely God's own creation. Of course I don't remember a lot of the rest of the day .

Bucket

Kopparberg Naked Apple is really, really lovely.

I like Blackthorn and Aspall too.

TTony

Aspalls is currently on 3-for-£5 offer in my local Tesco.

Though a trolley load disappeared off their shelves on Friday evening.