General / Off-Topic What cider should I buy?

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Got Kopparberg Sweet Apple in the end.

Look I love Kopparberg because it's so sweet.

Yes I have a big sweet tooth. I eat at least two whole apples a day too.

I like apples. Must be my inner-horse.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Robin of Spiritwood said:
Sadly, apples don't grow here. So: no cider available.
A company called Caribe imports apple juice concentrate, and adds industrial ethanol and carbonation. It's completely vile.

Whiteways still markets old time Cydrax, which is popular at Christmastime. It's not really cider though?
While in the UK, I had liked Magners. But clearly no experience here.
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If they have conc apple juice, then why don't they just ferment that? I mean it won't be as good as the real stuff, but it has to be better that just adding ethanol and CO2?
 

Kitfox

Kitfox
Old Rosie has become a favourite of mine.

Slightly sharp taste but otherwise quite warm and mellow.
Probably would advise drinking in small quantities at a time. Wouldn't want to chug one of these beasties.

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The bottles should be useful for something later.
 

verminstar

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Asp Explorer said:
If there is one thing the Americans can never get right, it’s booze :D
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Actually I beg to differ on this occasion...Im a bourbon drinker only, Jack Daniels and fat coke or southern comfort and red bull if Im in party mode. Also...ye guys make amazing adult entertainment...trust me on this.

Cider...not my thing nowadays but most the kids on the estate buy skrumpy jacks cos its cheap and strong and makes a good mixer fer snakebite. Gives ye a wonder hangover the next day though...the sorta hangover that only an Ulster fryup can cure...even the bloody mushrooms are deep fried in a good half inch of lard ^
 
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Leadfoot

Leadfoot
I am surprised, and more so, disappointed, that not one person has mentioned the excellent cider you can purchase at Dixon Dock.
 

Remus

Remus
Get yourself some Brittany cider !

Not as good as the one you find in Sweet apple acres, but I've heard that it IS the best Cider in the world !

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Kitfox

Kitfox
SpacialKatana said:
Good lad, or even Black Rat [up] [yesnod]
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Not come across Black Rat before. Looked it up but appears there's two different breweries using that name, Mole and a Torbay outfit.


All this talk of cider has reminded me. Last year I went to a farm to pick up a surplus IBC for work. I'm remembering now the thing stank like scrumpy so just done some searching and turns out it was a brewery I'd got the thing from.
Very small scale. Intrigued to see what his products are like now.
https://www.mr-whiteheads-cider.co.uk
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Kitfox said:
Not come across Black Rat before. Looked it up but appears there's two different breweries using that name, Mole and a Torbay outfit.
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If it's a proper scrumpy, Black Rat will be the ingredients, not the name.
Mole's is the only Black Rat I've come across in RL though...
 

Smeg

Smeg
My homebrew turbo cider (9% vol) will take you to utopia.. if you've got a wheelbarrow and someone to push. :D
 

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Siobhan said:
If it's a proper scrumpy, Black Rat will be the ingredients, not the name.
Mole's is the only Black Rat I've come across in RL though...
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I would tell you the story about how Mole's Black Rat came to get it's name ,but alas all i can say was that it was one drunken evening with a certain Mr Alan "Bad News" Morgan and Roger Catte in a pub in Bath. I can't go in to further detail for fear of either the profanity filter or the mods kicking me off the forum, but it has something to do with lady parts.
 
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VR George Smiley

VR George Smiley
Get a big plastic bucket, supermarket value apple juice, some yeast and look up “turbo cider” it’s cheap and you will be on the liver ward before dw2 finishes! They sell stills on eBay. If you wanted to do it even quicker! But that’s illegal without a licence. Breton cider is lush, old Rosie is good. It’s mostly Rattler here in Cornwall. Healeys is good. I shall do some research for you later!
 

Arry

Arry
George Smiley said:
Get a big plastic bucket, supermarket value apple juice, some yeast and look up “turbo cider” it’s cheap and you will be on the liver ward before dw2 finishes! They sell stills on eBay. If you wanted to do it even quicker! But that’s illegal without a licence. Breton cider is lush, old Rosie is good. It’s mostly Rattler here in Cornwall. Healeys is good. I shall do some research for you later!
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'Turbo yeasts' are OK for high a alcohol levels, in a short time; but they always leave a taste. I use a champagne yeast to make ciders. It takes a bit longer, but you can get up to 12 to 14% vol; especially if you use proper brewers dextrose/sugars in the mash. Patients is the key, to a good end product.
 

Winterwalker

Winterwalker
Nice. Brewers of the world unite. I've got half a dozen Meads on the go at the moment.

Henry Westons Special Reserve. Three of those and you're anybody's.
 

Smeg

Smeg
Arry said:
'Turbo yeasts' are OK for high a alcohol levels, in a short time; but they always leave a taste. I use a champagne yeast to make ciders. It takes a bit longer, but you can get up to 12 to 14% vol; especially if you use proper brewers dextrose/sugars in the mash. Patients is the key, to a good end product.
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Try using an ale yeast Arry, you'll be surprised, much smoother result than champagne yeast (I use wilko's own brand, which is Muntons Nottingham), aim for 9% abv with fermentables.
 
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