"Scrumpy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrumpy

we don't have scrumpy in the states? anyone experienced here. i want to know more.

Foties.

that looks bigger than the four oh son, and the bottle appears to be plastic?? very strange

Scrumpy is a term often used for strong ciders made in West Country of England.[1] The term is especially used to distinguish those made locally in smaller quantities and using traditional methods from mass produced branded ciders.

The name is believed to derive from the obsolete dialect term "scrimp", meaning a small or withered apple, which also gave rise to the verb "scrump", meaning to steal fruit.[2][3] It can be applied to basic home made ciders as well as to commercially produced and marketed varieties.

Scrumpy can be dry or sweet, however tends to be stronger in alcohol and more tannic than most commercial ciders. It is often cloudy in appearance, and is usually still rather than carbonated.

Scrumpy was often featured in the songs of The Wurzels, a folk/comedy/country group from South West England, especially in the song "I Am A Cider Drinker".[citation needed]

lethal

consumer

enthusiast

Pro

good cloudy scrumpy is about the only cider worth drinking (and it's still more or less piss).

scrumpy jack is ok in (heavy) moderation....

excess consumption is a fast track to braindeath

cornish rattler is pretty lethal after a couple. weston's organic is the shit, but 8% so not to be fucked with

my favourite cider is stowford press which isn't scrumpy though.

there's a couple i could recommend but i forgot their names after 6 months away

and oh god i miss cider out in china.

S'alright.

should only be bought in these things...

Stopping of at a scrumpy farm en route to bloc: safe.

i make my own cider and can tell you that, in my experience, still cider is much sneakier than carbinated 'cause is goes down so smoothly.

LOL I remember being behind the bar in padstow when this titchy wee lad comes in, couldn't have been more than 11 or 12.

"'ave you got any Scrumpy?"

"No sorry."

"No Scrumpy? Let's go somewhere else da'" with a look of utter contempt.

I wanted to smash the wee git in the mouth, but fuck it, he's probably gotten enough of it.

My mum and brother love scrumpy, but I hate the stuff and thus was shunned from my local pubs for my crazy city ideas of requesting vodka-cokes.

There was one I remember my mum buying called 'Cripple Cock', mmmmmm temptingly named.

My Dads a proper cider drinker,and always regaled us kids with tales of wickedly strong scrumpy with bits of dead rat floating in it and it being so cloudy it looked barely potable.Every year the Peace Festival would come to our town and Dad would stock up on flaggons of scrumpy with names like 'Evil 'Eds' & 'Strewth!'.

Nearest I ever get is apple juice.I Wonder why...

  On 2/1/2011 at 1:56 PM, chenGOD said:

LOL I remember being behind the bar in padstow

eh?! do i know you?

  On 2/1/2011 at 5:34 PM, sine said:

My Dads a proper cider drinker

real fan

scrumpy will give you an incredibly bad hangover

Scrumpy Jack is a cider.

I dont like cider so I cant really be any use as to how good it tastes.

  On 2/1/2011 at 12:12 PM, keltoi said:

should only be bought in these things...

 

..at a country fair in the summertime. oo'arr, go see 'the cider man'...

  On 2/1/2011 at 8:38 PM, BCM said:

scrumpy will give you an incredibly bad hangover

..so will 'Gaymers' ! fuck that stuff. never again!

Fuck this 4-8% ABV bullshit. USAmericans drink

... or did, in 1792, when we were cool.

i'm glad i started this thread

get o/l mavis

  On 2/1/2011 at 5:54 PM, dilbthelame said:

  On 2/1/2011 at 1:56 PM, chenGOD said:

LOL I remember being behind the bar in padstow

 

eh?! do i know you?

Doubtful unless you were drinking at the Harlyn Inn summer of 2000. i just say Padstow cause it's the closest point of reference.

  On 2/2/2011 at 5:13 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 2/1/2011 at 5:54 PM, dilbthelame said:

  On 2/1/2011 at 1:56 PM, chenGOD said:

LOL I remember being behind the bar in padstow

 

eh?! do i know you?

 

Doubtful unless you were drinking at the Harlyn Inn summer of 2000. i just say Padstow cause it's the closest point of reference.

ah, ok. i'm from wadebridge. and that was a few years before i was legal :)