My name is URL wrote: » I wouldn't disagree with that. It's part of the reason I was so surprised that Devil's Bit was actually quite nice! It tastes nothing like the sickly sweet stuff that passes as cider for most people, like Bulmers or Scrumpy etc. It's a lot more similar to old English ciders than it is to those drinks. As someone else said, they could start producing less of the stuff, up the price and do some rebranding and swanky marketing and a whole other demographic of people would soon become fans of it.
weldoninhio wrote: » Not really, the first batch of Bulmers Pear was literally like a laxative. A strong, quick-working laxative.
Corvus Maximus wrote: » Because anything classified as a cider is usually complete píss.
Mister Vain wrote: » Ohh God yeah the Bulmers Pear is awful. Stick with the apples for feck sake.
Corvus Maximus wrote: » My name is URL wrote: » Why does this stuff have such a bad name? Because anything classified as a cider is usually complete píss.
My name is URL wrote: » Why does this stuff have such a bad name?
weldoninhio wrote: Not really, the first batch of Bulmers Pear was literally like a laxative. A strong, quick-working laxative.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » Is that in any way comparable to the Guinness Sh!ts, which I only recently discovered were a universal phenomenon and not an indication that something was seriously wrong with my arse?
My name is URL wrote: » Are there any other beverages that are commonly ignored or ridiculed because of one thing or another, but are actually very nice to drink?
hatrickpatrick wrote: » In terms of nice strong cider, personally I'd go for Druids over Devil's Bit any day. I think, although I could be wrong about this, that the difference is Druids is made with red apples and Devil's Bit is made with green ones? Anyone know if this is the case? Either way, Druids I find has a slightly less tangy flavour than Devil's Bit. It's more subdued. I think perhaps Devil's Bit is just a bit fizzier - too fizzy for my liking anyway.
weldoninhio wrote: » Happened me with the pair cider (ran the guts out of me, not the sh*tting myself at the bar) Haven't touched it since.
the evasion_kid wrote: » You know the way it says made with 17 varieties of apples on the bottle,well one year they ran out of apples so had to use some cheap apples from China and various other places,a rep from c & c told me that,plus the pear cider was running the guts out of everyone so they changed the recipe unfortunately no one went back for round two of it,I've heard stories of lads literally sh*tting themselves standing at the bar from it.
rubadub wrote: » Bulmers can be put into the heavily watered down "cider" too. Its highy priced, cheaply produced alcohol -a lot of added costs will be the marketing. The marketing by bulmers is incredibly misleading, I don't know how they get away with it, especially when they are such cheeky fuckers about it. They had an advert for pear cider and said that it was made from 100% pear juice. This however meant there were no other juices in it, they did not declare the low % of juice in it. They did not add in cheap juice like apple to make up the missing sugar -no they just added back sugar and water. So they try and sneerinlgy disregard the other ciders which do us other juices -which in fact is seen as better practise by most brewers, it is certainly more expensive. "don't you hate being misled" was the start of the advert, it showed a guy going into a burger joint and the photo looked nothing like the burger he got. Significant presumably means the bare minimum to get over the legal limit. Just like their apple cider is -otherwise why would they not openly declare it? like proper cider producers might do.
Banjo String wrote: » Best cider is a Dickins..... I like my Dickins cider i must admit.
keanosbeard wrote: » Bulmers / Magners is a cider. It is made from apples French Cider must be made from 100 % apple juice. As you would expect of the french. And bloody good stuff if you get a bottle of the Normandy stuff. However, in the UK, a drink needs to consist of only 30 % apple product to be called Cider. Some of the leading white ciders, the 2 litre alco juices, are made from anything but apple. Just cheap sugar to ferment. I have read waste pasta, waste bread and glucose-fructose syrups.
6. What are the ingredients / from what is Bulmers Pear made? Bulmers Pear is made from 100% quality Pear Juice. The Bulmers Pear recipe is a safely guarded secret.
Bulmers Pear contains a significant level of high quality, pear juice
fuerte1976 wrote: » That Stella cidre is damn good
