[Closed] Magners...

Full of marketing crap

This thread is STW in a nutshell.

Full of additives, preservatives, and sweeteners.

Get some proper cider down your neck.

It's like putting a new paintjob and a set of Suntour Forks on an Apollo Full Sus bike.

Try Apalls Peronelle's Blush if you can't drink unadulterated cider.

Or any other alcopop.

Skywalker, I concur.

Geting all superior over apple juice 😆

Thatchers dayglo screech is real cider

HENRY WESTON'S VINTAGE OR WYCH WOOD

IT IS TRUTH

There is no other solution to your problems

I learnt that from Charlie The Bikemonger

Just had polished off a bottle of Thatchers Vintage and about to crack open a Green Goblin.

Equally, I've got a couple of boxes of cheap strongbow in the garage that I down with just as much ease.

Got to love that apple juice.

Magners is Bulmers with a different name.

Not there's anything wrong with that, but it does illustrate the power of marketing quite nicely 🙂

Magners isn't UK Bulmers in different name. There is a Bulmers over here that only really hit main stores once Magners came big on scene. Magners is still called Bulmers at home. Don't make the mistake I did and buy Bulmers here thinking is same - tastes quite different.

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Is shit. End of.

Do as Skywalker advises.

snakebite + black or nothing.

Skywalker, I concur.

Come back when you learn about cider brewing you clueless stationery salesman.

Yeah but if the OP likes it, what's the problem? 🙄

Seriously Elfin didn't you know he needs betterment? and not to be allowed praise a tipple he likes, honestly I despair at your attitude 😀

Their pear and ginger brew is tasty too. And before I'm told, yes I know other 'proper' ciders exist but I refuse to be bettered.

All cider tastes of rotten apples anyway.

Incidently, the carbon dioxide in Magners is a by product of the ammonia produced at the ICI factory in Middlesbrough. Lovely stuff.

now here's a subject I have some actual knowledge of!!

Magners, had 1 on Friday, no choice in the pub (well, they had strongbow..) I left rapidly.

Westons and Thatchers are both good producers, however there are loads of little producers who make some really ace stuff!

Down with magners, bulmers, and strongbow - it's all crap (IMO of course!)

Magners, "cider" without taste for people that don't like cider

Magners isn't UK Bulmers in different name. There is a Bulmers over here that only really hit main stores once Magners came big on scene. Magners is still called Bulmers at home. Don't make the mistake I did and buy Bulmers here thinking is same - tastes quite different.

This.

Different drinks brewed by different companies that once were the same company. After the split, the Irish side was allowed to retain the name Bulmers for the Irish market. They received a large injection of venture capital cash a few years back from some people that realised that they were sitting on a drink with a massive market potential that hadn't been realised. So when they launched in the UK, they came up with the name Magners (after Willam Magner who first started brewing cider in Clonmel IIRC).

So when the likes of Flashfart, grantway, and the others at the start of the thread who think they're too good for STR's particular brew - when you try to get all superior over what is apple juice allowed to ferment, then filtered, carbonated, coloured, and yes, preserved (even a lot of your ****y "authentic ciders" are preserevd and coloured (mostly with Sulphites anyway, which are in nearly every fizzy drink in the world) - remember that the likes of Aspalls, WychWood, Westons Organic (LOLz, organic my arse) wouldn't be sold outside a ten mile radius of the insular brewery that was making them without the money Magners shoved into the marketing of cider to the middle classes around ten years ago. "Oooh, look, we can drink it over ice Tristan. Yes, I'll have two of those Aspalls in the really authentic bottles, yaw." The rest of them are just hanging onto their coat-tails.

Here's a thing - one of my very favourite ciders is Bath Ales Bounders. So there I was thinking, this is a delicious cider for a company that makes good beer - so a bit of digging reveals that there is a cider brewery in Somerset that has only one brand of its own but brews around a dozen brands for other companies that need a cider in their line-ups. Bounders is one of these. But hey, it's nice so who cares? So the next time you're gushing over the latest niche alcoholic Appletiser, consider where it may have been brewed.

EVen that flipping Stella stuff is quite nice. 😆

So what you are saying is: Magner's is shite?

I want to know whatever happened to 'K' cider.

So what you are saying is: Magner's is shite?

No, but you knew that anyway. 🙂

See DD you had me agreeing until that last line. But you know what, you are entitled to think what you like about what you drink without me telling you are wrong, ( but you are 🙂 )

Mastilles that's the fabulous English education system again, it's always been spelt with a C. 😆

I want to know whatever happened to 'K' cider.

I drank it all when I was 15. Sorry about that.

@northshore,

That last line may have been stuck in the enrage the authentiques. 😉 Some of them were quite frothy when it was launched.

Doh, sorry will get on message now. 🙂

Frothy cider, where will the madness end.......

erm Taurus from Aldi anyone? 😆 😛

Jamie - Member
I want to know whatever happened to 'K' cider.
I drank it all when I was 15. Sorry about that.

erm Taurus from Aldi anyone?

Yay!

Proper cider comes in a jerrycan, I thought everyone knew that?

skywalker - Member

Full of additives, preservatives, and sweeteners.

They're the best bit tbh, the rest of it's made out of bloody [i]fruit[/i].

Got any diamond white in?

Here you go Jamie http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/tesco-price-comparison/cider_and_alcopops/k_cider_4x440ml.html

Weston cheddar valley looks like lucosade but blows yo
ur head off

Rusty Spanner - Member
Magners is Bulmers with a different name.

[Dont you mean Bullshit Rusty ! ]

deadlydarcy - Member
Magners isn't UK Bulmers in different name. There is a Bulmers over here that only really hit main stores once Magners came big on scene. Magners is still called Bulmers at home. Don't make the mistake I did and buy Bulmers here thinking is same - tastes quite different.
This.

Different drinks brewed by different companies that once were the same company. After the split, the Irish side was allowed to retain the name Bulmers for the Irish market. They received a large injection of venture capital cash a few years back from some people that realised that they were sitting on a drink with a massive market potential that hadn't been realised. So when they launched in the UK, they came up with the name Magners (after Willam Magner who first started brewing cider in Clonmel IIRC).

So when the likes of Flashfart, grantway, and the others at the start of the thread who think they're too good for STR's particular brew - when you try to get all superior over what is apple juice allowed to ferment, then filtered, carbonated, coloured, and yes, preserved (even a lot of your ****y "authentic ciders" are preserevd and coloured (mostly with Sulphites anyway, which are in nearly every fizzy drink in the world) - remember that the likes of Aspalls, WychWood, Westons Organic (LOLz, organic my arse) wouldn't be sold outside a ten mile radius of the insular brewery that was making them without the money Magners shoved into the marketing of cider to the middle classes around ten years ago. "Oooh, look, we can drink it over ice Tristan. Yes, I'll have two of those Aspalls in the really authentic bottles, yaw." The rest of them are just hanging onto their coat-tails.

Here's a thing - one of my very favourite ciders is Bath Ales Bounders. So there I was thinking, this is a delicious cider for a company that makes good beer - so a bit of digging reveals that there is a cider brewery in Somerset that has only one brand of its own but brews around a dozen brands for other companies that need a cider in their line-ups. Bounders is one of these. But hey, it's nice so who cares? So the next time you're gushing over the latest niche alcoholic Appletiser, consider where it may have been brewed.

EVen that flipping Stella stuff is quite nice.

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Good. I kept it nice and simple specially for you.

about to crack open a Green Goblin.

K cider is still available around Manchester area. Although that is probably an illustration of our populus.

K and all those other so called strong ciders; Frosty Jack, White Shightening etc. have never seen an apple.

They are basically pamone + glucose and then watered down.

I do like a good cider and Weston's Vintage is one of my faves.

Reminds me I must try a snakebite made from entirely from Stella products

😉

[i]Reminds me I must try a snakebite made from entirely from Stella products [/i]

Why weaken a perfectly good pint of Stella by putting Cidre in it?

A triumph of marketing for 'the mad apples'.

When I were a lad, cider was either for mixing with lager and blackcurrant juice on Thursday nights out at uni, the primary food group of dog-on-a-string type crusties or the park bench companion of the hopelessly alcoholic.

Now its expensively advertised on telly and sold for OVER FOUR QUID A BOTTLE in nice bars and drunk enthusiastically by all sorts of people.

Still tastes the same to me. The only thing that's changed is the marketing. Fair play to them.

Guy I used to work with made his snakebites from Special Brew and Diamond White. I tried it once. Thank God I was at home and close to the bed / toilet.

Nice to see you yesterday Derek.

Assume it wasn't you getting a free helicopter ride from Ringley Road then?
Looked a bit serious, that one.

[url= http://www.gwatkincider.co.uk/cideryarlingtonmill.html ]Get some of this down you![/url]

Their Perry ain't bad either.

Nice to see you yesterday Derek

Good to see you and Mrs. Spanner. You look like you've lost some weight too Rusty.

We got home safe if a tad cold. Nasty incident on Ringley Rd. Eight year old girl air lifted out with serious head injuries after being hit by a car. How awful.

Sweet Jesus! Only on STW could you get a huge argument about the quality, or otherwise, of what is essentially Tramp Juice 😀

Showerings (Gaymers) in Shepton Mallet are making it. The apples are actually Oirish though.

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Typical users....

More up-market users:

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deadlydarcy - Member
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Good. I kept it nice and simple specially for you.

MMMMMM You have just not clasped my reply !

MMMMMM You have just not clasped my reply !

Given your recent contributions to STW matey, I really don't want to clasp anything of yours.

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Can still get k cider in local shop here near nottingham.

Try tilling ton hills cider at co-op. it's lovely

truth is that no one knows about cider until they've drunk in here

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if you can manage more than a pint and a half of Black Rat and not soil yourself where you stand, you're more of a man than i

Or this rather fine establishment:

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Ah, The Apple...always nice calling in there after a sunny summer's evening ride.

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You've got to love the simplicity of this place sometimes.
Same thing over and over again.

[b]OP: [/b]I like (insert whatever)

[b]Replies:[/b] You're nowhere near as good as I am, because I like something else. And I think it's better than what you like.
So obviously that makes me better than you.

and so on.

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You forgot the "...and it makes [i]me[/i] better too"

But yes, you're correct.

Would I be right in thinking that Magners is reassuringly expensive?

if you can manage more than a pint and a half of Black Rat and not soil yourself where you stand, you're more of a man than i

You've soiled yourself where you've stood? 😯

Sweety Jesus of Nazareth man; do you not think it would be a good idea [i]not[/i] to drink the stuff then?

I suggest your authentic types try "Roger Wilkins"
http://wilkinscider.com/Wilkins

Cant beat the Cider Farms for a real taste of the Fermented Apple.
Used this site for places to buy when down Cornwall and surrounded areas
[url= http://www.somersetmade.co.uk/oldscrump/ciderfarm-index.php ]Old Scrump's Cider House[/url]

But I'm an real Ale man myself 😉