Americans try proper British Cider in Somerset England
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Our English friends (Travel Beans) said we need to try REAL English cider. So we've popped over to Somerset England to try every kind of Thatchers cider under the sun.
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Aw you guy!, we just watched this with the HasBeans! We miss you guys and look forward to our next adventure 😊
We miss you!!!!! Thanks for such a lovely intro the England!
@Steve T Yeah, and England is in Britain.
And- for the time being at least - Britain is in Europe.
So, it wouldn't be incorrect to say "European Cider" either.
Don't be THAT guy. Pedantry doesn't look good on anyone.
@@thomaswarren2699 The French do some nice ciders too.
@@thomaswarren2699 We're leaving the EU, we're not leaving Europe.
@@WAYAWAYWithAsh OK let me correct a couple of things. Cider is normally made with Apples but is also made from Pears. If you want the Original look for Scrumpy or Rough Scrumpy and as the name suggests not as refined as the ones you tried. Like Mulled Wine some pubs serve Mulled Cider traditionally the Cider or Wine was heated by plunging a hot poker from the fire into it with some spices added.
My brother got me some ‘real cider’ from a farm near where he lives. It’s the sort that’s like still apple juice, tastes just of apples, no real alcohol flavour. Then when you try and stand up, you find your legs no longer work.
Epic
Job done ,
THAT'S proper cider.
I found one called fall over water.
Oh man, my housemate bought me a keg of that once. It was smooth, innocuous, and absolutely brutal. It started off still but a month later was fizzing quite well.
Every cider I tried the times I went to England was super good! I returned the favor to the pub owners making sure the establishments remained standing in the morning by holding the walls up for them on the way home during the nights.
vectrexer what a hero!
What
We appreciate your efforts despite the circumstances. 😉
Its dangerous stuff alright, sneaks up on ya when you aint looking and steals your legs.
@@TwofourA Drunk.
It's great to see American people seeing the real England not London
London is just as much 'real' England as any other part of the country. I agree that it's good for visitors to see other parts of the country but it's also perfectly understandable that most will want to see London. All these 'real' type comments are just petty.
@@Codex7777 London is a realer version of England than most Americans imagine , more so than Somerset etc because it is a modern, heavily populated, extremely multicultural city full of the flaws and challenges of every big city , like crime, grimey rough areas , congested transport and public amenities etc..
Somerset, Dorset & Kent etc are the most similar to stereotypical fairytale olde world England. Crime is low, landscape is green and uncongested, population is mainly white, buildings are old, the accents easy to understand.
London is like, Manchester, Birmingham or New York USA.
It represents how most English people experience England with all its urbanness and total ethnic/cultural mashup.
I reckon Americans would be shocked to see areas in England where the entire population is of Pakistani or Carribbean heritage.
Or where they are unable to understand accents of the "native" British white population, and where that white population was begging them for money so they could buy some smack or spice.
London is great and all, but it really does feel like its own thing compared to the rest of the country. Saying its not the 'real' England is probably the wrong way to put it, but I think most people just mean that you haven't really seen 'England' if you've only seen London.
@@GameFreak7744 I'd say London is very similar to every other big city in the UK, which is where the majority of British people live. The novel feel of London comes from the gritty urban-ness which very much includes the rough teenagers who live there that would gladly Rob you, being mixed in equal part with millionaire bankers, and busy creatives from all around the world who have come to live and work there , the rich people, tourists, galleries, museums and multi million pound HyperCars all getting mixed together side by side.
In other gritty cities you don't get the millionaire bankers, international tourists, Tate gallery and the like.
Small towns and villages out in the country, be it in somerset, Devon or Lincolnshire really do not represent a Britain that most British would call home. It is where the minority live.
People rarely even drive through small towns as motorways bypass them. The only time they get seen by city people is if they purposefully want to go visit a small village, usually in summer.
It may seem that I am kind of dismissing Britain's rural population, which I am. Because most Americans seem to dismiss Britain's urban population! especially poorer urban Brits, be them first generation immigrants from Somalia/Romania or white native drug addicts laying sprawled across the streets.
That is real England (Scotland and Wales too)!
@@dfpguitar Hm, well, last I heard (probably a couple years ago now) the balance reached about 50% of people living in cities, and about 50% living outside of cities in the UK (previously it was majority non-city). Not sure the exact definition of 'city' that was used, but I would have assumed this included all the smaller cities, so with those and the towns & villages it should still be the majority /not/ living in the big cities still, so I'm not sure London is all that representative yet.
(This is all also aside from the question of how like London the other big cities are, though I can't really speak on that, other than not finding Manchester all than similar to London personally; I have no clue about the others.)
"They're so easy to drink"
Famous last words 🤪
Goes down like water but the right cider fucks you real quick
That's where the danger lies !😏
Americans Get Rat-arsed in Somerset! Love it.
Have not heard/seen my favourite word rat-arsed used for a very long time 😊
The trouble with scrumpy is just that it's so drinkable. It's far too easy to get blind drunk on the stuff...
Also, speaking for myself and not putting too fine a point on it, after a couple of pints I find that not only does the bottom fall out of my world, but alas the world falls out of my bottom...
Used to drink Scrumpy in Devon & Cornwall in the Summer you had to have your own Tankard so that Tourist could not see what you were drinking?? We used to have it with a ginger wine or if you were brave a Sloe Gin top!!
Forget all those Phycadelic Drugs SCRUMPY is on Steriods!! Proper Cider is SCRUMPY UNFILTERED & COMES SWEET OR THE STRONGEST DRY at the end of the day the minute you leave the Pub your legs take on a life of their own & you'll be holding up the walls trying to find your way Home??
Been there, done that, got the toilet roll.
Should have taken them to a farm that makes their own "Rough".
In the late 50,s when I used to get detached to R.A.F. Locking for a month two or three times a year, our watering Hole was the 'Spread Eagle' in Weston - Super - Mare where the Cider was known as Scrumpy .... and was drawn from wooden casks behind the Bar.
Agree - in Devon just across the border there is some very serious and gorgeous farm cider produced which would have blown them away,,
I love it rough, a couple of pints and I can sleep like a baby. You don't get heart burn either like you do with that concentrate crap
This is quite an important aspect of the history of "scrumpy" Cider. It was usually made (on the farm) and provided to the farm workers bringing in the annual harvest (hard bloody work) in both the west of England and Brittany and Normandy.
Used to do a lot of rough camping years ago and we found a farm selling awesome scrumpy. The only container we had was a red plastic petrol can! Drained the petrol into the VW splitty, gave it a rinse and filled up with scrumpy. Tasted like apple juice, very deceiving. Until you try to stand up!
Scrumpy looks and tastes the same when you drink it and when you throw it up. Great stuff.
Hot Fuzz was also filmed in Wells, Somerset; a friend of mine was an extra
No part of hot Fuzz was filmed in Sandford, Somerset at all! The film use of the name is because Sandford is the name given to the fake town plan used for most UK police training based on the street plan of Dundee, Scotland.
The "Sandford" location was actually for Sandford Gloucestershire despite there being a Sandford in Somerset and filming was in Wells, Somerset.
@@CrazyInWeston Even though there isn't such a place in Gloucestershire! Weird convenience that the name the police use for training shares it's name with an actual place in the country the outdoor scenes were filmed in.
Yarp?
Try Sheppy’s next time - Thatchers is great and all but Sheppy’s cider blows it out of the water! Becoming more available in supermarkets now too, though plenty more range online!
Yay Winscombe! Whenever I come back to UK (my parents live in Winscombe) I stock up on Thatcher's from down the road. I took my Slovenian wife to the pub to try cider and she said "Yum, it's just like juice!" She was knocking it back, then got up to go to the ladies, that's when her legs went all wobbly.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode! As a lover of cider, I really appreciate your honest reactions and individual tastes and preferences. Me personally...I love a good farmhouse scrumpy. Yeasty, funky, sharp, tannic, complex... It's nature at work
Would so love if there was a later part of the day when trying to put a sentence together was possible, and how much everyone loved everyone else. :D
It's Scrumpy cos as kids nicking apples from someones orchard was called Scrumping.
I stopped drinking cider for nearly twenty years as I got utterly legless on it when I was a teenager and was so ill it put me off it. Today, I love a pint of the stuff..
Well, as a young lad in the RAF, we trained about 4 miles away but, the Railway was an ale pub then but like all Somerset pubs, sold scruomy, dry, medium or sweet. Landlords would only sell you one half pint until they knew you. Then The Thatcher family had the farm next door where they made scrumpy. It was in a barn, large barrels, would shavings on the floor. You could buy it in two pint cartons or six pint plastic containers. It was real journey into space stuff. It is amazing from such a small begining how big they have grown but, whenever I am in Bristol on businees, a pilgrimage to Thachers for the polypin of dry scrumpy is a must.
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Pebbles Bar in Watchet. Go there. Drink lots of lovely cider. Then go next door and get fish and chips,take them into the bar and continue to drink cider. I haven't been thatvpissed for years! What a great time!!
As long as we all agree that Strongbow isn’t Cider we can all be friends.
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Ah yay, we're from Somerset originally but now based in London for a bit! Hope you enjoy all that lovely cider! 🙂
scrumpy is the only cider to drink in a cider house
I love the Scrumpy Jack. Its my favourite.
@peter burry Yes I know that, but thats the name of the cider by Symonds cider company.
The champagne style cider used to be called "Pomagne" though I think they market it differently these days. My pet hate is the marketers talking about "Pear cider". It's not pear cider, it's called Perry.
I remember caving in the Vercor in S.E. France once with friends went to this little restaurant one evening and saw they had cider and being a hot day and all from Somerset we thought we'd try some french cider (it was o.k, a bit sweet and not a s good as the stuff back home, but perfectly drinkable.)
You could order either a beaker (about half a pint) or a pitcher for four. There were four of us, the guy driving ordered a coke, but the three of us remaining ordered a pitcher anyway. This totally confused the poor french woman serving us:
"You want a pitcher for four?"
"Yes please."
"But you are only three and the pitcher is for four."
"It's not a problem, we're thirsty."
"But zee pitcher is for four!"
"She's got a point. One pitcher won't be enough. Can we have two pitchers please?"
"Two pitchers!!"
"Oh go on then three pitchers, one each."
"Three pitchers!!!"
Her face was a picture too. They clearly weren't used to serving Somerset cider drinkers and it was hilarious watching her reaction.
Pomagne was made by Bulmers Cider makers in Hereford. Looked like champagne, tasted like shite!
AFTER TWO PINTS OF REAL 'SCRUMPY' CIDER-- WE ALSO CALL IT ''FALL TIME'' ----FALL ON YOUR FACE TIME..
I miss pubs so much. I'd love to go out and have a cider now
Hot Fuzz was set in Sanford but filmed in Wells, Edgar Wright's home town.
I LOVE cider and I loved this vlog. Cider is making some headway here in Northern California, but nowhere near the choices I saw there in Somerset. I've now added that area to my bucket list of places to visit. Being gluten free, cider is also a refreshing alternative to beer.
I call it one of my '5 a day'. Which is a thing in the UK where you are recommended to have 5 pieces of fruit per day. So therefore 5 cans of Scrumpy Jack gives me my quota of 5 a day. X¬D
Go to Burnham on sea
@@baylessnowI have 8 cans of Scrumpy Jack daily. Gotta get that 1 five a day lol. Plus Scrumpy Jack is my fave and its dead cheap in the supermarkets £3.75 for 4 cans so that helps. (of which I can get £3.38 for 4 cans in the store I work in thanks to colleague discount)
@@Mark-ms5pn No one should ever go to Burnham on Sea by choice.
Love seeing you Americans here in uk seeing it from your point of view
Sam Jenkins we ain’t all bad but know we got a reputation
But thankfully I have a girlfriend from the states so I guess Brit charm worked 😁
Just found this video. Makes me wanna take my hubby there and we only live in Bristol. X
Sittin’ around gettin’ drunk all day, cheers!
Melissa Joan Hart and Lisa Snowden go drinking together with two blokes...
Ashley's lexicon of descriptions of the Cider so awesome
Thatchers is my favourite 'standard cider', but, you must try 'Aspalls Premier Cru'. Made in Norfolk, very strong and utterly delicious!
Ged Whittaker Suffolk actually 😃👍
@@philipedwards4570 sorry, quite right, must have had a moment!
Also Cornish Rattler is an absolute delight.
Harry Westons Vintage at 8% is hard to improve on.
K cider?
Being from Somerset, the couple you lot were with did their research. Well done!
Are you planning visit in Oxford? If yes let me know so you can come and stay in my pub with accommodation :)
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No, Hot Fuzz was in the fictional illage of Sandford, but actually filmed in the wonderful town of Wells
Well done on sampling a bit of the ‘real’ England away from London
London is just as much 'real' England as any other part of the country. I agree that it's good for visitors to see other parts of the country but it's also perfectly understandable that most will want to see London. All these 'real' type comments are just petty.
@@Codex7777 I completely agree. I grew up just outside London. I now live in Somerset. Both places are English and as valid as each other.
"I have something which is called a cheddar..."
OH GOD...PTSD FLASHBACKS.
That's a hell of a cider to try on your first time.
Wilkins cider farm in Mudgley. Hands down the best scrumpy farm in Somerset.
I missed you guys! What a great video, it's nice to see you back
My local farm here in kent does a superb cider called double vision....tastes like sweet apple juice no alcholl taste but at 8 proof soon kicks home...i drink it like its a wine or your be in trouble
As. Child scrumpy was a thing that made my dad chase my mum astound the settee such a happy drunk Sahara a happy memories
Not bad but should have gone to Burrow Hill and got some proper cider
Autumn's here. I approve of this video! Im gonna go have fish and chips.
Iam sitting in my garden smoking a cigar watching this video.iam going to go and by some good ciders for tonight.looks like you guys are haveing a grate time.two gentleman and two lovely ladies with lovely smiles.god bless you all.
Your reaction to the cheddar apple cider (very drinkable and 6 per cent) reminds me of a mistake I made when on a walking tour in the German Odenwald. I ordered Apfelwein instead of Apfelsaft and then had a massive hangover several hours later!
Haha, oh boy, that had to have been 'fun' :p
Haha what a mistake to make. Surely you could taste the difference?
@@rachael4512 not when you were as thirsty as I was :). The Odenwald trails are all labelled but if you make a mistake it can take some time to get back on track, and with all the trees you have no bearings. When we finally stumbled across a Wirtshaus we were gasping !
Love this video. I felt just like I was right there with you all.
Thank you for the wonderful video. So pleased to see that Thatcher's has become a major cider institution. I used to live in Bristol in the early 1980's and pop down to Thatchers at Sandford with a 5 gallon plastic jerry can. Thatchers was just a little farm back then. I used to roll up in the farmyard and pop into the shed and ask the guy for 5 gallons of mix (half dry; half sweet). the guy used to fill the jerry can with a hosepipe and judge the 50/50 mix by eye. It was cheaper than petrol at the time.
My local was the Coronation Tap in Clifton, Bristol: a scrumpy pub. When the new university term statred it was a regular thing to see the students drinking scrumpy at the bar and they didn't realise how strong it was . At around 22:30 people started falling off their bar stools. Drinking scrumpy is an acquired skill !!! Thanks for bringing back the memories. Looks like you guys had a great time :)
Used to love going to the Corrie Tap.
I ran a pub for a short while in the West Country, and being a cider drinker myself, and growing up around cider drinkers, I hadn't truly appreciated the effect it can have on people who aren't used to it.
But so many holidaymakers down from London or the Midlands would come in and decide that since they were 'down west' that they would drink cider. I saw some people go pretty crazy wild after 2 pints.... Not even scrumpy or high alcohol stuff, just regular Thatchers/Bulmers etc...
Thatchers.... In one sentence - mass produced carbonated pretend cider. You're in Somerset, so drive down a little country road and you'll find farms selling real, scrumpy cider.. min alcohol is around 7%... If its cloudy, with no bubbles, and has sediment at the bottom of the glss/bottle, you may have found the real deal. : )
They used cider tasting as an excuse for a pub crawl and a bender😂😂😂
You need a Sheppy's best Somerset cider ive tried by far and the best cider out there
Zebedee
Agreed - Thatchers is one of the better ‘mainstream’ brands but Sheppy’s is really superb, and becoming more widely available!
As a proper born Brit I Joined your channel as am an avid subscriber to the travel beans but you intrigue me with your American ways ;) I’ve even bought the ingredients to make proper American pancakes eggs bacon and maple syrup this weekend cant wait to catch up with your vlogs x
Only discovered you guys tonight, and spent the next three hours until 2a.m. watching some more of your vids, Awesome work you guys well done. I live 1 1/2 miles west of Thatchers in the next Village called Banwell, i used to work for John Thatcher many years ago before he went commercial, it was fascinating to see how you guys take a wonderful fun approach to everything you do and to think my first video i watched was of You guys being so local to me, how ironic lol. Keep up the good work, safe travels, thankyou.
Bet you're glad that the Banwell bypass has finally been given the go ahead!!
Sanford is a town in Somerset, however the movie Hot Fuzz was filmed in the city of Wells about half an hour from Sanford under the name of Sanford as that was where the director Edgar Wright lived when he was younger. He went to secondary school at the Wells Blue School, in Wells, which is another reason why that location was chosen :)
But the "Sandford" location was for Sandford, Gloucestershire, not for the Sandford in Somerset.
When I was at uni in Bristol, the following was the most mind warping drink.
Equal measures of rough cider (scrumpy) and Carlsberg Special brew and 2 shots of Blue Curaçao. Ow!
I love the thatcher's haze.
Finally, VPN is working ;) This looks like a cute litte village. I never had Cider, and i think we don't have something like it in Germany. But i know the french Cidre, which i like a lot, but i have no idea if it is really the same (besides the name). I guess it is probably similar to the sparkling apple wine you had at the end.
True, Germany seems pretty set in their beer 🍺 😂
Cider is not Cider it isn't the same at all
Tell you what, my favourite drink is thatchers Katy and theyre strong as hell, they put you on your arse fast ( english term for get you drunk fast)
So glad to see you in Somerset! West Country girl from Bristol here and a real scrumpy lover. Hope you got a great West Country welcome, one of the friendliest places in the UK. Probably because we are all sozzled on the cider lol
When I went to Bristol recently, half the people around seemed to be either drunk on on smack. Very friendly I'll grant ya, but that city seems full of a lot of inebriated drifter types. =P
Scrumpy can seriously ruin your day, the really brave drink it with Guinness, wonderful stuff
you are always welcome in the uk try and come back in the summer for the food feastivales you will love it
I'm curious to what Thatchers customers pair with their hard ciders. Typically, in Upstate New York, we will have cold sweet cider, with apple cider donuts, from August to October. We'll stop at an orchard; while leaf peeping. In November, when it's cold & rainy, we'll have hot mulled hard cider with apple or pumpkin pie. I will, sometimes, put cream soda in my hard cider; after raking leaves & nibble on pretzels. Cheers!
You should have gone to see Roger down at Wilkins Farm for the best cider in Somerset. It's doesn't get any better, nothing but apples.
Al M love Wilkins! Visiting the farm is an experience too.
I like the comment "ITS BEAUTIFUL,ITS LIKE ITS BEEN ON THE TREE ALL DAY"
The Lady yank sounds pissed before she's even had a pint.
@tomuscranius No, it's scrumpy - which is much worse.
she seems high as a kite at the best of times.
They started her on the scumpy
Scrumpy
Should also try
Brothers Festival, Toffee Apple
Cheddar Valley
Thistley Cross
Sheppys is excellent
Old Rosie by Westons
Westons Perry is lush but strong
A nice cider on a hot day can't beat it
Thatcher's is alright, personally prefer Weston's or Thistly Cross. As long as it's not Strongbow...
I live in Somerset, hope you guys enjoyed your stay
Funny thing, I was watching your video on Fish & Chips, today I see that you were in Winscombe The pub where you were drinking your cider, right across the street is a good Fish & Chip shop that I used to visit during a six months stay in that area.
I stay at strawberryfield park every year near cheddar. If you want a beautiful lodge with hot tub and stunning views with a gorge near by then definitely check it out :)
Thatchers cider is good but a couple of miles down the road is a farm shop that makes it's own cider, that stuff will get you drunk just sniffing it ! The good stuff is still green and thick , lethal after a couple of pints
I prefer cider to beer, I haven't had a pint of Scrumpy for years I like it but it is lethal (a couple of pints will make you drunk). If it isn't cloudy with chunks of apple and bits of twig (and occasionally a decomposed mouse, I have heard that happens) it's not real Scrumpy :-)
Haha, I heard of some legendary ciders like that.
@@WAYAWAYWithAsh If you want a pint of screech get one made with Kingston Black apples, really nice scrumpy.
Glad you had some sun!
Aspall all the way. Its a bit on the more expensive side but you can't beat its 7% stuff.
Anyone from the west country remember 'Coats Cider' the brewery was in Nailsea' if you do your showing your age !
Also remember Bulmers they brought a number of Pulman Cariages & the GWR Loco "CITY OF TRURO" That they used on promotional Trips & Tour's !!
Apple juice and cheddar with a bit of cider... Sounds like a tasty trip, as I like all of these things.
I remember drinking with my cousin what we thought was apple juice come to find out it was scrumpy .. you don't feel like you're getting drunk but you absolutely do lol we were teenagers lol
I'm watching a couple of nice Americans getting quietly hammered on cider.... To think that my life/civilization etc has come to this!
Roger Wilkins at Mudgley is a real cider farm nothing else comes close
It comes a very close second to Churchwards oi Paignton, but as Churchwards is no more it has been raised to my favourite. Rogers farm is worth a visit just to get in the atmosphere.
Half a Stella (lager) with a bottle of Rattler (cider) mix the two together, 4 or 5 pints of this should proper mess you up. For those who haven't tried.......it's called Snakebite.
Cider in Autumn is absolutely spot on :-)
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Next thing to do is the 5 main regions of Scotch Whisky.
Sandford Orchards from Crediton in Devon make great ciders.
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This pops up on my feed today, never seen anything from you before but you mention being at the Thatchers brewery and my folks live across the road so I have a quick gander, yep pretty sure I saw you guys heading up the Strawberry line...
Summerset cider is for tourists. Proper cider is scrumpy made in a shed at the back of a farm. Complete with fomented ample.
When I find a drink that I really like my description is usually, That's Dangerous!
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Other places for good cider? The Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia... Four craft cideries all doing some very good booze. Strongly recommend Willie Smith's and Pagan...
London is just as much 'real' England as any other part of the country. I agree that it's good for visitors to see other parts of the country but it's also perfectly understandable that most will want to see London. All these 'real' type comments are just petty.
You need to try a perry, made with pears not apples, not as common, There are lots of micro producers in the area, we put on a cider festival every year, with some 15 different ciders, including Thatchers, and a couple of Perry’s, we are in Dorset, next county, but the ciders are mostly from Somerset.
some of the really traditional stuff is really very dry (not sweet) and will be cloudy ranging from being just a bit cloudy to looking something like orange juice. Thats the real stuff.
Should have given them White Lightning cider, proper cider.
jk Bambo would be signing on before they new it
I had gallons of that in the 90's, they baned it, frosty jack is the closest.
Nothing like cider for ill feeling the day after consumption. How did Joe Grundy live into his 90's ?