Magner's cider.

[Fab Foodie]

Just up?

LOL

 

[Fab Foodie]

Well I like a Merrydown Vintage Dry cider. Cheap as chips and hits the spot on a sunny day..... In fact

Ahhh Merrydown, the tipple of my youth!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just back from Fatco's (Is it me or is Tesco the home of the Morbidly Obese on a Saturday morning?).
Chuff the 'Beer' is cheap, piled high for the footie fan.
Interestingly the brands that were so ludicously cheap...
Carsberg, Stella, Boddingtons, Budweiser (US), San Miguel, Becks...
None of them that I would choose to purchase, but at lesss than 50p a bottle, hard to refuse... So I'm sorry to say that along side the Peroni (the wife has taken a liking to it), the Czech and some Bass ale, I bought some Becks as the best of a bad job (well, at least it's German import)

I do agree with FM, whilst taste is subjective, a huge amount is simply marketing that people follow like lambs.
Somebody made the point that people simply tried Magners with ice and liked-it, well that's as maybe, but as sales have dropped like a stone, they didn't like it very long... I assume it didn't taste as nice as all that then.... like Caffreys, Murpheys, Castelemaine yadda yadda.
Stella and 1664 were both sold as premium products, but the fact that it's so cheap now shows that like Fosters and Carling a it's now just become cheap get-pissed-quick juice (actually the imported 1664 in bottles was quite flavoursome). Stella has quite a nasty harsh taste to me.

Unfortunately most of the NOBS/mey drinking pals are fizzy-shoot get-pissed juice drinkers, anything as long as it's cheap. Not one of them has any taste!
I'm off to a Beer and Bluse festival with one tonight, he only drinks crappy lager (often witha 'top', won't even try real beer. Some people will never be converted.

I'm with Threebikes, life's too short for cheap beer. If that makes me a beer snob, I'm proud.

 

[vernon]

Stella and 1664 were both sold as premium products, but the fact that it's so cheap now shows that like Fosters and Carling a it's now just become cheap get-pissed-quick juice (actually the imported 1664 in bottles was quite flavoursome). Stella has quite a nasty harsh taste to me.

1664's place in the premier brand league is a direct result of marketing and promotion. It was a cheap as chips drink sold alongside Harp and Skol.

The only happy memory of 1664 that I have was when a couple of empty cans came to the aid of my mate when the silencer on his motorcycle broke in half in France. We drained a couple of cans of the stuff and used the empty cans and some bailing wire to effect a temporary repair that got us to Le Mans and back home again.

 

[philipbh]

your sources you say, do you have sources at the ready for any given topic, or just for this one, in which case you waited for your moment, this being it, and pounced with your stella artois pertinent facts source ?

You had me at pounced

 

[philipbh]

I wasn't saying they are exactly comparable - just that they are different examples of socialisation - the exact method by which that occurs in each case is very different. And I'm not making a value judgement about either one. Darkstar is welcome to his Magners, Sato-san can keep his Asahi and DP his Chouffe... I was simply commenting on the things that underlie preferences and 'taste' being not quite as some people think.

Point taken - I was differentiating based on possible motivation for behaviour

Interesting debate nonetheless

 

[potsy]

On my 2nd bottle of Bulmers Pear cider,with ice,lovely after a chicken madras whilst watching BGT-what a life I lead

 

[Fab Foodie]

On my 2nd bottle of Bulmers Pear cider,with ice,lovely after a chicken madras whilst watching BGT-what a life I lead

The 'Good Taste' hit squad is on it's way...

 

[darkstar]

Well last night at the pub I was on the Westons, for the first time. Was persuaded by the village locals, to get off the ale. They didn't tell me it's 7.5% though! So after 5 pints of the stuff, it had gone to my head It didn't taste that strong, so easy to drink.

 

[benb]

... I enjoy Fosters, Budweiser(I prefer the US to the original ...

Then you must die.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ahhh Merrydown, the tipple of my youth!

Years ago when I was but a boy I was in Fine Fare deciding which bottle of cider I should buy knowing little about the subject. A tramp staggered in, grabbed a bottle of Gaymers Old English and wobbled his way to the checkout. That gentleman's discerning taste was a recommendation good enough for me so I bought the same.

 

[Debian]

On my 2nd bottle of Bulmers Pear cider,with ice,lovely after a chicken madras whilst watching BGT-what a life I lead

When did Perry suddenly become Pear Cider?

Cider is made from apples, Perry is made from pears.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

When did Perry suddenly become Pear Cider?

Cider is made from apples, Perry is made from pears.

When cider became fashionable again... you'd have to do double the marketing job to persuade people to drink 'perry', but with 'pear cider' you have half the job done already.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Perry probably doesn't sound macho enough.

"I'll have a perry and my friend will have a babycham"

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I think (but may be wrong) that perry is made from pears, whereas pear cider is simply cider flavoured with pears.