On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:12:23 GMT, Peter Ward
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> On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:55:19 +0100, Halla
> <halla@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> posted....
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>>If anyone can reliably find one in the stu****markets I'd be obliged to
>>know which it is, although I appear to have abruptly stopped drinking
>>at home after the hangover from hell struck yesterday. Didn't even
>>have the energy to eat sausages in rolls.
>
> An apposite subject. I was shopping for cider in the supermarket
> earlier, and looking at the cheaper versions. Scrumpy Jack aside,
> they all seem to be cider "with sugar and sweeteners", even the _dry_
> ciders. By the cringe, this country's going to the dogs. It occurs
> to me that as cider is "an alcoholic drink made from the fermented
> juice of apples", I find that calling this rot cider is mendacious.
> I'm still not sure if I really like Scrumpy Jack.
I'll drink it if there's nothing else better than Strongbox. IMO Dry
Blackthorn is about the minimal standard (it isn't wonderful but it's
fairly cheap and a decentish strength and drinkable).
> To top it all they no longer stock jugs of Weston's Scrumpy.
Weston's , that's the ones I was thinking of who did Scrumpy.
> I got some Frome Valley dry cider, and some Thatcher's varietal Cox's
> cider. But I'd like a fairly decent cheaper one so's I can afford to
> drink it more often, with _no_ added sugar _or_ sweeteners.
IMO the Katy is better, but granted it's not cheap.
>>There's a list, as there so often is, on Yahoo[1] which is populated
>>with ever so clever cider perry and possibly cyzer makers, although I
>>confess I've never heard them discussing cyzer and in fact it's the
>>meadmaking groups (usenet, not yahoo) who are more likely to mention
>>that particular beverage.
>
> What's "cyzer"? It's not in my dictionary.
See my other post. Mix apple juice and honey before fermenting...
Chris C
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