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    Pear cider?

    Following on from the Magners craze there is now a fasion for pubs to serve bottles of "Pear Cider". My reaction to this is "It's not sodding pear cider, it's perry!" Am I right? Cider implies it's made from apples, surely.

    #2
    Pear cider?

    An interesding question. I'll put it to my CAMRA branch-chairing father at the earliest opportunity.

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      #3
      Pear cider?

      Disco Sea Shanties wrote:
      Following on from the Magners craze there is now a fasion for pubs to serve bottles of "Pear Cider". My reaction to this is "It's not sodding pear cider, it's perry!" Am I right? Cider implies it's made from apples, surely.
      You're leaning on an open door here, you know...

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        #4
        Pear cider?

        A lot of people won't know the term "perry", though. And when asked to define perry by someone who doesn't know the word, I don't know about you, but my response has always been "pear cider".

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          #5
          Pear cider?

          It's just Babycham in big bottles.

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            #6
            Pear cider?

            Babycham is perry isn't it?

            edit: as PG said

            Those fruit-flavoured ones that sponsor The Championship on ITV look like the most gross things ever. Especially the virulent neon blue one.

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              #7
              Pear cider?

              It's just Babycham in big bottles.
              Discuss.

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                #8
                Pear cider?

                Someone should ponce on at this stage about the fantastic perry you can get in Normandy, and Jesus Christ, it might as well be me.

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                  #9
                  Pear cider?

                  I bet they also insist on putting ice in it. Ice. In cider. Or perry. I mean, what? Whose idea was that? Why do people just go along with this marketing-driven arse?

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                    #10
                    Pear cider?

                    Wyatt Earp wrote:
                    A lot of people won't know the term "perry", though.
                    Then they must be destroyed…

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                      #11
                      Pear cider?

                      Wyatt Earp wrote:
                      A lot of people won't know the term "Perry"


                      Philistines!

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                        #12
                        Pear cider?

                        I don't like the after taste you get with cider. But, the Swedish stuff, Koppaberg, is fucking lovely. It's like drinking Robinsons or something.

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                          #13
                          Pear cider?

                          Look, the great unwashed will never go for a product that some crusty old peasants in the sticks have brewed since time immemorial. We need to convince the young, trendy people that it's cool to drink our brand so we need to cut the ties from underage drinkers and toothless old men falling off park benches, smashed out of their boxes on strong but acidic crap. We'll insist it's served over ice, get a bloke to do the voiceover in an alluring/serial murderer voice (take your pick) and have a load of pretty young things holding it in bottles and pint glasses.

                          /ad man mode/

                          Yes, the term "Pear Cider" pisses me right off as well.

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                            #14
                            Pear cider?

                            They sell pear cider at the Workers' Beer Tent at Glastonbury. One of the reasons I like the festival so much.

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                              #15
                              Pear cider?

                              Which workers, exactly?

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                                #16
                                Pear cider?

                                Battersea and Wandsworth TUC

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                                  #17
                                  Pear cider?

                                  Is there a perry equivalent of scrumpy I wonder. Something thick, opaque, indeed, often lumpy, one and a half pints of which would floor a concrete elephant.

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                                    #18
                                    Pear cider?

                                    You get that sort of thing at beer festivals. It's quite nice actually and somehow preferable to cider. Seriously strong stuff though.

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                                      #19
                                      Pear cider?

                                      I'm having pear yoghurt at the moment, incidentally. william pear & butterscotch lakemead yogurt from Marks and Spencer, to be precise. And it's made me remember why I don't like pears as much as apples - it's the skin, the skin on pears is much stringier, and has a sort of gritty texture. The Pear Development Board need to work on pear skins if they're ever going to win me over.

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                                        #20
                                        Pear cider?

                                        The main problem with pears is that it's impossible to eat them fresh without getting your hands covered in pear juice.

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                                          #21
                                          Pear cider?

                                          The corollary problems being..?

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                                            #22
                                            Pear cider?

                                            Anyone who chooses to get drunk on anything other than icy Kopparberg is just making life pointlessly difficult for themselves.

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                                              #23
                                              Pear cider?

                                              Sticky hands.

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                                                #24
                                                Pear cider?

                                                Sorry to squeeze in between you gentlemen there. GY's pear problem is spot-on, of course.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Pear cider?

                                                  Taylor is right. And the best thing about it, is that you can drink it at 9am and not feel at all sick.

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