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Livestock => Other => Topic started by: langdon on August 22, 2010, 10:24:09 pm
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just been on holidays and came home with two different ciders, one is from devon and the other
is from cornwall both scrumpy.
i never liked this scrumpy before but been on holidays and seen this on sale on farmers markets i just had to
buy it, with wifes permission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have allways drank strongbow but tasting these two different scrump's one dry the other sweet i love it now.
my question is for those who also love the countrymans champayne what one is your favourite?
langdon :yum:
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I tasted strawberry and lime cider yesterday at our BBQ - yummy!
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Well mate when you live where I do anything like that is bottled or manufactured sheep dip ;D
Stop off in Somerset and visit some of the old farms that still produce it in the barrels and Ill ensure you'll like it, its as different from one to the other as anything else. I used to make it at one time.
My mates family had made it hundreds of years then it ended someware around the late seventies. In 85 we started to get the presses working again, took nearly a year to rebuild and acquire buggered bits of old equipment but we did it. Pressing out those first Hessian cheeses was so rewarding and the first batch tasted awsom. That was Coombes Cider, I fairly sure they are still pressing.
Another well known one is Rich's, but i never rated theirs that much, difficult being a friend of the family; theirs is too green. Oddly enough I don't drink it now :-\
A break in the hay field on a hot day after stacking a few hundred bails; interupted by the farmers wife coming out in the landrover with cheese sandwiches and a flagon's of cider. Oh sweet memories. That my friend, was without doubt the best cider that ever past my lips :yum: :yum:
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If you are ever in Lincolnshire, stop off at a village called Skidbroke. Their cider is to die for. The trouble is, it's too nice and too easy to drink! it cost £20 for a large box of 10 litres. then come and sleep it off in my spare room! LOL
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Old Rosie
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pear
or that jacques stuff with berries
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Dont drink much nowadays but my favourite was a scrumpy they sold in a pub in the back streets of York. Cant remember name of either so it must have been good. But you got your first pint in a blue glass and your second in a green, when you took the green glass back you were not allowed another!
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Hi We have lots of good makers round by us http://www.ciderroute.co.uk/site/index.html (http://www.ciderroute.co.uk/site/index.html)- spoilt for choice really
The ones I like best currently are Dunkertons Organic, you can stop by their farm and taste all their varieties and buy in the nice old fashioned glass gallon jars. And Olivers http://www.theolivers.org.uk/page4.html (http://www.theolivers.org.uk/page4.html) they do a good range of ciders and perries (even better than cider in my opinion) and on Saturday you can go and try them all before you buy. They have returnable bottles (50p off next bottle) and also sell in 5 10 and 20 litre bag in box. Plus they do an excellent "champagne" type cider and perry in lovely bottles with wire fasteners.
all the best
Sue
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Roger Wilkins cider barn at Mudgeley. Fortunately just up the road from me. Proper cider in a proper cider farm - as you go in a mug is thrust in your hand and there are always a dozen or so locals chuntering away around the walls. I think some of them may have grown into the walls. As endorsed by the late Joe Strummer, and as you can see in this clip, Johnny Rotten.
http://www.c1der.co.uk/cider_with_roger.htm
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i love 'suffolk cider with blackcurrant liquer' you can get it in tesco in tall bottle(nice bottle thats why i bought it at 1st...lol) its about £2.50 ish and its tastes sooooooooooooo nice!!
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Rattlers Cornish Cider - apple or pear, cloudy and delicious!
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Merrydown Vintage - but the cans, NOT the bottles (have a funny taste). Absolutely heavenly cider! But too easy to drink!
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Stowford Press everytime!!