Just off to the pub.

[Joe_the_Lion]

Just off for a few drinks and I have noticed my local now stocks Magners Irish cider. I must admit I do enjoy the more traditional rough stuff from gallon cans direct from Somerset.

Is this worth trying? Not sure about the ice though. Any ratings?

[shaylee]

I dont particularly like cider, but i tried Magners last september and really liked it.
i would say go and have a pint, and try it with the ice in the top its really good!
let me know what you think.
:-)

[johnlambert]

try it with the ice, still not made my mind up yet tho, im a purist at heart

[grumpii]

Ice in a pint? your all turning gay, falling for the new marketing gadjet from the brewery, the youth like it, but they will fall for pink mobile phones. Its not bad cider though.

[RATTER15]

You can only get real Cider from a farm!! the stuff I get is 50p a pint off the farm after first getting bitten by the farm collie, they decant it straight from the oak cask whilst you wait, you get a taster first, then if you want it dryer or sweeter you move up or down the row of casks. Ive watched them pressing the apples through straw it then runs along the farmyard through open rainwater guttering held together by bits of baler cord into buckets then carried to the casks. It tastes like nectar to those who like real rough cider and cats p!ss to those philistines that don't like it!!

Oh! and if you take along your own containers you get 50p a gallon knocked off!!

[johnlambert]

I DO NOT HAVE A PINK MOBILE PHONE!!!!!! (its a very pale shade of red)

[RATTER15]

I have never seen any man drink more than 5 pints of the stuff before falling down or asleep.

You don't get hangovers with it but it does permanently erase everything from the memory!!

[johnlambert]

ratter, when I was an instructor at the School of Infantry in Warminster, we used to get the scrumpy you talked about, only half a pint tho, and it was as cloudy as hell, if you could still walk after your 2nd half pint your next was free. That was in a pub called the King Arthur, I wonder if it's still there?

[RATTER15]

Johnlambert, I was only mentioning on here last night about a pub I used to drink in called the Drum Inn at Cockington Devon(Devon Cider Specialists).

They would only serve their Cider in half pints and would never serve it in the lounge as it took the varnish off the tables!!

[grumpii]

If all the squadies went there john, its closed. Buy a blue phone, pale red will look pink to a poof.

[johnlambert]

lol
yeah I know what you mean, this stuff was the spawn of beelzibub but, as you said, tasted as sweet as honey. It had bits of apple in it, and I swear the landlord gave me my last half pint with parts of a rats tail in it when I got posted to Canada

[RATTER15]

When I was eighteen and a gravedigger, I had to dig a grave at the famous Buckfast Abbey, I had been digging a while when a monk appeared with a large jug of Cider and a glass on a tray for me, when he came back for the empty jug I was fast asleep in the grave with a sheet of iron over the grave keeping the rain out, the grave was only half dug!!!

[johnlambert]

grumpii
only kidding about my phone being pink,;-0 it's really a sexy wee black number, all the PYT's at Uni love it (and the mobile lol)

[johnlambert]

Buckfast Abbey is where they make Buckfast wine, or as it's better known in Edinburgh's rougher tenaments "electric soup", I've never tasted it myself, although I grew up there (Craigmillar to be exact) I managed to escape when I was 17, people i went to school with are still there, never been out of Edinburgh, never had a job, just stand outside the Post Office till the Giro comes, then doon tae the oaffie's fur the boattle ae electric soup pal"

[grumpii]

John, I bet your phone is dressed up like the blue oyster bar, with leather and studs, and a facking moustache!!! lol.

[Aprilis]

Oooh, I love Magners with or without the ice. Not fussy either way.

I make you right RATTER, I don't like rough cider and I do think it tastes like cat's pee. In fact I have been known in the past to say it tastes like monkey p1ss!

Not that I have actually experienced the taste of either, before anyone asks how I know!

Wardy there's nothing to lose by just trying a bottle of Magners to see if you like it. Let us know when you get back if you gave it a go and if so, what you thought of it. It certainly isn't reminiscent of animal urine like that other stuff!

[johnlambert]

Aprilis
how do you know what cat & monkey urine tasts like? I mean how you compare cider to them? have you experience of animal p!ss?

[Aprilis]

JL the 'electric soup' cracked me up!

[johnlambert]

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[Aprilis]

John, it's just that I find it as nasty tasting as I imagine monkey pee would be. I guess that as monkeys eat a lot of bananas and other fruit it kind of made me think the monkey juice would possibly taste fruity in a similar way as rough cider does!