Comments on: October is Cider Month http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/ Quenching your thirst with sips, nips and tipples. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:55:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Richard Fairhurst http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/#comment-13689 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:13:33 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/#comment-13689 If you'd like to find out more about real cider, take a look at <a href="http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki" rel="nofollow">ukcider.co.uk/wiki</a> - a community site all about real cider and perry. There's <i>much</i> nicer stuff than Addlestones available, and 800+ pubs selling it! If you’d like to find out more about real cider, take a look at ukcider.co.uk/wiki - a community site all about real cider and perry. There’s much nicer stuff than Addlestones available, and 800+ pubs selling it!

]]> by: Donavan http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/#comment-10772 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:20:30 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/#comment-10772 Hey, thanks for the added info, Bryan. I loved the one real cider I had while in Oxford. Very rich and smooth. A cider house, you say? Interesting. I'll have to look for one of those. Cheers! Hey, thanks for the added info, Bryan. I loved the one real cider I had while in Oxford. Very rich and smooth. A cider house, you say? Interesting. I’ll have to look for one of those. Cheers!

]]> by: Bryan Betts http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/#comment-10732 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:55:19 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/21/cidermonth/#comment-10732 The cider-over-ice thing is a marketing gimmick from the company behind Magners, which is a fizzy cider that's been very heavily promoted as a more sophisticated alternative to alcopops. It's back to this thing of trying to disguise the taste, I suppose - alcohol for people who want to get drunk but don't like the taste. The lager parallel is supercold and ultracold draught lagers - beer sold so cold that you get frost forming on the glass. There's quite a few real ale pubs that also stock a real cider in the UK (not just England - very fine cider is also made in Wales, for example). There's even a few surviving "cider houses" - pubs which *only* sell cider, no beer. The cider-over-ice thing is a marketing gimmick from the company behind Magners, which is a fizzy cider that’s been very heavily promoted as a more sophisticated alternative to alcopops. It’s back to this thing of trying to disguise the taste, I suppose - alcohol for people who want to get drunk but don’t like the taste. The lager parallel is supercold and ultracold draught lagers - beer sold so cold that you get frost forming on the glass.

There’s quite a few real ale pubs that also stock a real cider in the UK (not just England - very fine cider is also made in Wales, for example). There’s even a few surviving “cider houses” - pubs which *only* sell cider, no beer.

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