Pear Cider/Perry

Lord ButterSlip

Does it annoy anyone that Perry is being marketed as "Pear Cider" because I am just the kind of bored individual to post a new thread on the subject.:pac:

biko

Isn't it pear cider thought?
http://www.howtomakecider.com/perry.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry

BeerNut

Lord ButterSlip wrote: »

Does it annoy anyone that Perry is being marketed as "Pear Cider"

Not annoy, exactly, but it is stupid, and sort of dumby-downy. It's certainly less of a tragedy than the chemical torture C&C put the poor innocent fruit through.

Now, who's for a nice glass of cabernet sauvignon grape cider?

Lord ButterSlip

EXACTLY its the fact all consumers are not expected to understand a word that lets face it sounds like something marketing came up with anyway. Grr :rolleyes:

Isn't it pear cider thought?

It really is called Perry. this is along the same lines of wine being made from grapes then thinking how wonderful it would be to use the same process on bananas and calling it banana wine.

BeerNut

It happens. You'll often see mead described as "honey wine"*. Wine and cider are basically synonyms -- only one's grapes by default and the other's apples.

*including Bunratty "mead", which isn't true mead at all but a honeyed grape wine properly called pyment. Because life is insufficiently complicated as-is.

Lord ButterSlip

I just looked up pyment and am none the wiser but already like the word! And after a quick search came up with this which frankly sounds like a bottle taken from the fountain of youth:

Bunratty Mead or Meade is an extraordinary, legendary, mystical drink with strong attachments to Ireland.
From Here

Mellor

Basically it coems down to the fact that not everyone knows what Perry is, and almost everyone has an idea what cider is.

Thanks guys!#?! Now I have to go out and try to find Perry in California. This is going to be like a Tomb Raider hunt. Blue puts on Laura Croft outfit and prepares to charge out the door to shop before the markets close.

oblivious

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Thanks guys!#?! Now I have to go out and try to find Perry in California..

Try some where like trade joe's/ Beverages & More, or English importer if there are any near

Mantel

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Thanks guys!#?! Now I have to go out and try to find Perry in California.

I'd say you shouldn't have too much trouble! There's a meadery there that makes black cherry cider (wonder what the proper name for that is ) called Rabbit's Foot, if you find a shop that sells that you'll probably find some perry as well