Real cider rots your guts, Stella will make you come out fighting without any memory of it. If you find the real stuff hard to swallow try a splash of orange, vimto, black, or even a slice of orange and that takes the edge away, cheers
Thatchers gold sits in between the two made with pressed somerset apple but brewed in steel vats for five weeks v oak vats and eight months. Some of these concentrated fizzies are not even made with English apples.
they contain CO2 ITS THE "FIZZ" LIKE IN BEERS AND LAGERS (AND SHANDY if made from real ale or real cider) that hastens the alcohol into the bloodstream. Go to a city centre pub have 6 pints of 4% fizzy beer = pisted or getting tipsy............. go to a local real ale 4% 10 plus pints and possibly get tipsy in the next few! recently in 6 1/2 hours managed to consume 14 pints and in a group of 8 of us I drunk a few less, all were up and doing things 4 -5 hours later...2 of 3 hardened drinkers that had polished off 8 litres of Bottled cider went to bed at midnight, got up at least 3 times before we went to bed at 0330 and complained about hangovers when they got up 3 hours after we did. The other drunk local cider about 3 litres + went to bed about 0200 and was up same time as us
Travel to Netherlands reguarly beer and lager there contains no additives next day dehydrated but no hangover. Away from Bristol i drink lager or some of the commercial ciders. Next day I feel like i have been hit with a bat. Bad one is Thatchers gold its just headache liquid despite as they bombard it with additives for colour and to make sure it keeps longer. I would drink ale away from the west country but simply dont get it not my thing.
Gold and westons organic, but usually footy days or hot days in a country pub, normally drink beer, when bloated on that go onto vodka & redbull.
A proper cider doesnt your guts, unless you are drinking a gallon on an empty stomach. Drinking cider which is 7% all day is going to have an affect, so eat something. Adding blackcurrant, vimto etc is odd. You have bought an acidic apple beverage. You want to taste the apple, it should be dry and sharp. If you know hour apple varieties you will be expecting a taste akin to the apple used in brewing e.g Kingston. Dry, medium dry, sharp its all in the apple variety. Don't want the above go for a weaker alchopop psuedo cider like Thatchers dry.
There was a man on the farm where we lived whose favourite evening tipple at the Malt Shovel in Cannington was pints of Guinness and rough cider. He had been known for downing 7 or 8 pints on the weekend but cut back on weeknights because he had to work the next day. Quite frankly I don't know how he could stand up yet alone go to work. I remember him as being very skinny and I believe he died quite young, but there you go I suppose. Oh happy days they were when football was a real game and not controlled by nimbies and overpaid players and the likes of Big John ruled the roost.
I have about 2 pints of cider a year. I'm a real ale man - member of CAMRA Favourite beers would be Hall & Woodhouse Tanglefoot, Palmers Tally Ho and Tim Taylors Landlord
There are rose and a fruit thing but calling them cider is stretching it. cider is made from cider apples. Pressed cider apple. pear cider till a few years ago when the marketing men appeared didnt really exist. many of these things are gimmicks. PERRY was made from perry pears and was not called cider. now they chuck anything in vats brew it for a few weeks and bang it out as cider. Ice in cider!!! Thats a shandy!!
Cider: Black Rat or Thatcher's Gold Ale: Brew Dog's Punk IPA (the greatest alcoholic beverage of all time) or Prescott Hill Climb Lager: Red Stripe Spirits: Bombay Sapphire gin or a nice drop of Calvados.
Stowford press is the one for me now......used to drink bow as that is probably the most common over here on tap. They also have Addlestones cloudy cider in my local now but had a few and not too fussed tbh. I don't drink cider if I am out for a meal though, I drink lager then.
Spoons? We get it in pint glasses over here, just goes to show we might fondle wildlife but we must be more sophisticated than you lot in Weymouth
