Two pints of cider has wiped me out.

[Spartak]

Down 'ere in the West Country, Cider is in plentiful supply ......

.... if you get the chance try ....

Thatchers Gold

 

[subaqua]

Its C'est Cidre not Cider.

it feckin ain't

 

[threebikesmcginty]

it feckin ain't

I see Carling are doing cider now too, wonder if it's as shite as their other chemical products?

 

[subaqua]

I see Carling are doing cider now too, wonder if it's as s***e as their other chemical products?

if its as dire as the somersby crap from carlsberg then yes.

carlsberg don't do cider , but if they did it would be

 

[asterix]

There once was a lady from Hyde,
Who ate a green apple and died,
While her lover lamented,
The apple fermented,
and made cider inside her inside

 

[Fnaar]

I occasionally partake of a glass of cider, sometimes I even put ice in it, but I REFUSE to believe it's Irish or French.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2573159, member: 259"]Well, the word "cider" was a French word originally [/quote]


That froggie tat's not half bad, might glug a bit next month dans la belle Fance innit.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

should nt think i would last 1 never mind 2 not having touched booze for 8+ years

Same here, except it's about 4.5 years, and just about anyone could drink me under the table (hypothetically speaking, since I don't plan to start it again).

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2573169, member: 259"]You going to Normandy then?[/quote]


Passing through, mort.

 

[hopless500]

Probably didn't help that it was lunch time drinking but all the same next time I go to the pub I'm having shandy and I don't feel in any way ashamed to admit it. Because I don't drink very often at all I am happy to keep my tolerance low as well as my expenses.
The price was a shock as well. Admitedly it was a bit of a trendy bar but £4.20 for a pint of best (can't remember the name I just asked the bar tender what he recomended, it's that long since i've had a drink in a pub) cider is a bit bleedin' steep. Or is that just normal nowadays?

A pint of shandy costs the same as a pint of beer or lager. Not sure how they get away with it in pubs really, given that lemonade doesn't have alcohol duty to be paid on it. ... but there you go

 

[hopless500]

Four quid a pint! I bought 3 litres of cider for four quid from the local off license tonight. I use my local pubs as i don't want to see them disappear,but i hate paying £2.50 a pint,and the cost of soft drinks in pubs is astronomical!

£2.50 a pint? Cor, I wish. Two pints in our local is £7.25......

 

[Cyclopathic]

A pint of shandy costs the same as a pint of beer or lager. Not sure how they get away with it in pubs really, given that lemonade doesn't have alcohol duty to be paid on it. ... but there you go

It is a scandal. Their fizzy sodas are just mixed at the pump using cheap syrup in the carbonated water. I understand that they have to make money but a soft drink that costs them a few pence should not be the same price as the lager. Even stranger that if you have a more expensive lager in your shandy (although why would you, but still) then the price of your lemonade goes up as well and they charge the same for the pint. I think soft drinks should only be half as much as the beer at the very very most and if you have a shandy then they should enter it as two drinks in one glass so to speak so you get charged a set amount for the lemonade.
I'm glad I don't go into pubs but once in a blue moon.

 

[hopless500]

It is a scandal. Their fizzy sodas are just mixed at the pump using cheap syrup in the carbonated water. I understand that they have to make money but a soft drink that costs them a few pence should not be the same price as the lager. Even stranger that if you have a more expensive lager in your shandy (although why would you, but still) then the price of your lemonade goes up as well and they charge the same for the pint. I think soft drinks should only be half as much as the beer at the very very most and if you have a shandy then they should enter it as two drinks in one glass so to speak so you get charged a set amount for the lemonade.
I'm glad I don't go into pubs but once in a blue moon.

I agree. I've already decided that the next shandy I have, I am having half beer or lager and half a lemonade as separate things and I shall ask for a pint glass.....

 

[Dayvo]

Same here, except it's about 4.5 years, and just about anyone could drink me under the table (hypothetically speaking, since I don't HAVE A TABLE).

That's more like it!

 

[yello]

next time I go to the pub I'm having shandy and I don't feel in any way ashamed to admit it

Good for you. There's been times in the past when I wish I'd been able to do the same. I'm not a big drinker at all and these days could frankly do without completely. I can feel jaded the following day after just a couple of glasses of wine.