Get your thieving Oirish hands off our apples!

[Pip in a Poke]

Personally I prefer perry

Babycham.

Another great Shepton Mallet product!

[d000hg]

d000hg probably counts Skol as a lager.

If it factually is lager - it undergoes the lagering process as part of brewing - then of course.

This snobbery "I don't like it so it's not cider" is rather childish. It may be mass-produced, chemically stabilised, overly carbonated crap but it is still cider.

Hopefully the cider I'm currently making will be better - I've done it from kits before but this is my first batch direct from apples.

[Paddy]

First they close the cider mill, now they decide they'll continue using Somerset apples to make their Irish "apple based alcopop" that doesn't even merit being called a cider.

Strange, the majority of cider and cider apples comes from Northern France. (read the labels)

[vetran]

If it factually is lager - it undergoes the lagering process as part of brewing - then of course.

This snobbery "I don't like it so it's not cider" is rather childish. It may be mass-produced, chemically stabilised, overly carbonated crap but it is still cider.

Hopefully the cider I'm currently making will be better - I've done it from kits before but this is my first batch direct from apples.

you can make it with just apple juice from a carton, its not bad.

http://www.homebrewcentregy.com/medi...urbo_cider.pdf

Though having planted 4 apple trees I'm hoping to try it for real soon.

[LondonManc]

If it factually is lager - it undergoes the lagering process as part of brewing - then of course.

This snobbery "I don't like it so it's not cider" is rather childish. It may be mass-produced, chemically stabilised, overly carbonated crap but it is still cider.

Hopefully the cider I'm currently making will be better - I've done it from kits before but this is my first batch direct from apples.

There's nothing snobbish about failing to recognise Skol as a lager.

Strongbow is to cider what Fosters and Carlsberg are to lager - the cheap alternatives. It's not snobbery to dismiss it, it's simply a matter of taste and principles.

[darmstadt]

Hmmm, booze made from apples. Actually my local tipple is just that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apfelwein and although the article says that this is cider, its not, that is actually cidre. Once you try it, you'll see that there is a difference

[piebaps]

I have neither taste nor principles - and therefore fully enjoy a strongbow.

[d000hg]

There's nothing snobbish about failing to recognise Skol as a lager.

Strongbow is to cider what Fosters and Carlsberg are to lager - the cheap alternatives. It's not snobbery to dismiss it, it's simply a matter of taste and principles.

Yes, fosters is a cheap LAGER, Strongbow is a cheap CIDER. It is snobbery because these are simple facts. I don't think there is a way to explain this any more simply so you just go on thinking it if that makes you happy.

[d000hg]

you can make it with just apple juice from a carton, its not bad.

http://www.homebrewcentregy.com/medi...urbo_cider.pdf

Though having planted 4 apple trees I'm hoping to try it for real soon.

Yeah it's apparently just as good using cheap concentrate rather than non-concentrate premium juice too, you just have to leave it a year to mature and lose the rough edges. Very very easy and cheap to make a nice 8% cider that way.

What apple varieties have you gone for? Unless you have a cider variety, you're supposed to use a mix of cooking apples (malic acid), eating apples (sugar) and crab apples (tannin) to get a nice balance.

The one I'm doing is a single-tree cooking apple cider which has enough sugar as it'sa particularly sweet cooking strain, but is very tart. I added tannin by simply brewing a strong jug of tea, but I think I need to treat it to reduce the acidity.

[RSoles]

Quite partial to an Apfelkorn myself.