CANADIAN REACTS | Best British Cider
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Did you know the UK is home to some of the best cider in the world?? This week I'm taste testing the most popular British ciders on the quest to find the best cider in the UK! Let's react!
If you have a favourite British cider, please let me know! I can't wait to try them all!!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a RUclips video every Tuesday & Friday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT on Twitch.
Alanna x
This girl bloody loves a cider 💛
I don't think I've ever come across someone so enthusiastic about cider.
I have a sneaky feeling that you really, and I mean REALLY, enjoyed making this video. I liked how you asked if we knew when 'they' started while showing us the label with the date on. 😂 Oh, and such a classy lady - burrrrp! 🤣🤣 Thanks for brightening my evening. 😁
I think you need a trip down to Somerset to the Thatcher's cider shop and their pub in Sandford. You can try their "proper" cider, similar to Old Rosie but nicer. And here, in Bristol, we have a few cider houses, even a cider boat that has a fantastic selection of ciders.
I've had 3 nights on the boat - apparently!
My Dad would take me to Thatchers farm over 25 yrs ago and I still remember the white brick walls with the wooden barrels. You could pitch up grab a gallon plastic bottle and fill up and for some reason I would be thrilled by the stickers you could put on the bottles!! Happy memories ❤ Stunned me how big Thatchers has become over the years but I was drinking it with lemonade from an early teen age and Gold is the usual one on tap at a pub
@@fleason771 It certainly has grown. Back as recently as the 80s there were loads of farms that made cider. Much of it decidedly ropey, mind. I always preferred Thatcher's. Bens Crossman in Hewish makes lovely cider but a bit too acidic for me. We used to crumble chalk in the flagons to ease it a little. It worked.
I lived in WSM and Banwell in the 70s and we used to go to Thatchers, old man Thatcher used to be sat inside by the 3 big wooden barrels, sweet, medium and rough ciders he would give us a half pint of each one so we could decide which one we wanted, we'd get a couple of flagons each and walk out half cut.
Great times
Another fine episode in the long running "Alanna gets wasted" series! As a cider drinker, Westons is my go to, but all of the ones you chose are decent.
Totally agree 👍 Westons is an excellent experience 👏
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We call westons "Gary barlow" cus I'm sure that's his face on the bottle 😄
How do you get a wasted on 6 ciders? Makes no sense
@@randomstuff2438 She was going after the first one.
Definitely! It helps that it's 8.2% as well
When coopers make wooden casks, it's a skilled art Alanna. They will often fire the inside to give a charred or toasted effect, it helps to seal and condition the wood. There's different levels of charring, depending on the type of wood and the intended contents. It will add to the aged taste of the alcohol as it matures.
There are three basic types of cider. Singing cider, sleeping cider and fighting cider. Unfortunately you cant tell which is which until you start drinking them.
You're so right my friend . The troublesome ones are those that seem to be one sort and turn out to be another .🤣🤣
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Can't imagine 'K' being anything other than a fighting cider for anyone!
@@jamesmatthews291 it’s a puking cider.
Old Rosie is deadly. I had to limit myself to two pints of it on any drinking session (plus other drinks, just not more Rosie) because it has no mercy
Old Rosie is just the Best, I Love it, especially on a warm day. I get the two litre Flagon`s 🍻🍻
Me and a work mate got very drunk on Old Rosie the next day was not pretty.
I once lost two days to Old Rosie. Got drunk on Saturday night, didn't function until the following Tuesday. It is a time machine.
@@robertrhead570 Do you remember a Bottom live show where Eddie makes weapons grade lager? Maybe Old Rosie is weaponised cider?
@@stephensmith4480 that's quite a lot! i can drink a lot, but for some reason Old Rosie destroys me. I had 6 pints once and it was not good.
Supermarket worker: "hello regular customer. I see you've bought a load of ciders today. Having a party tonight?"
Alanna: "oh no, this is for a taste test review I'm doing for my RUclips channel."
Supermarket worker: "oh, so it's work-related?"
Alanna: "yeah, err, that's right. Work..."
Thanks for the great vid Alanna, really good fun!
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If it's work related, can she claim back the VAT?
Love a good cider, and it's great to see a review of some of the more standard/traditional flavoured ones - I have a soft spot for a Henney's but as you say it can be a bit dry. As well as the oak barrels some do cider from whisky barrels - Thistly Cross Whisky Cask is a good one which is worth a try. Plenty more to sample Alanna, but in the meantime a great fun taste test...bring on the summer!
Thanks so much for watching!
I once was drinking a bottle of Henry Weston's vintage & my 16 year old niece asked me why there was a picture of Gary Barlow on my bottle. We now simply refer to Weston's vintage as a bottle of Barlow.
Saves time.
There is actually a Gary Barlow Organic wine. Available from major supermarkets.
After all the sacrifices Alanna has made in order to inform our dining and snacking options, this feels like a well deserved indulgence. The sheer joy was palpable!
Haven't checked all the comments, curious if anyone has made 'that' cider joke yet?
I refuse. Its beneath me...
Could that possibly be Dickens Cider, by any chance?
One to try, Westerns Perry is lush, Perry pear, very classic drink, can be almost like sparkling sweet wine
Old Rosie is Scrumpy Cider, very much what you could buy from a farm, gallon containers, unfiltered
Scrumpy Jack - Not really scrumpy
The fact you’ve done a video purely on drinking cider which I’m drinking now I think it’s the perfect opportunity to say I love you 😂
I actually laughed through this. You are absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂
You're too kind!
Biddenden cider near Ashford and they make wine. Turners of marden near Maidstone. Local Kentish producers worth checking out. Turners make a apple pie flavoured cider. Sounds odd but it works. They go well with Kentish blue cheese.
Yes, it's like a Monty Python sketch!
Love these Alcohol Taste Test Shows. I hope we don't end up with Alanna just sitting on a Park Bench all day, a Carrier Bag filled with Super Strong Cider and Shouting at the Pigeons. One Day you have an excellent job as an Airline Pilot. You get a fondness for Tequila. Before you know it, the Old Oak Tree is your New Home. And the closest you will ever get to flying again, is watching the Pigeons in the Park... Or, so I have been told.
Three litres of either Manors or Pulse.
@@johnafirth Do they still produce 3 Litre Bottles? I can only find 2.5 Litre Bottles lately. Er... I am asking for a friend.
I’ve just come across you’re channel, so funny, it was a laugh to watch , keep it up, you’re definitely enjoying life lol
Cider is what we’re known for in the West Country! I love every flavour of Thatchers, Gold, Haze, Cloudy Lemon, Rose, Katy, Cheddar Valley, Blood Orange, they’re all so good
(Scrumpy Jack is classed as a tramp’s/hobo’s/homeless drink by the way)
Cloudy lemon is vile,haze along with rattler are my 2 favorite at the moment,
@@jizzmonkey9679 blood orange is the best
I love your way of yours tests go, Your a proper drinker. congrats.
Looking back Alanna's rapid slide into alcoholism and homelessness started with her popular "Afternoon Drinking With Alanna" RUclips channel.
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I'm if she's going to become an alcoholic, at least she's now in the best country for it 🙌🏾😂
Oh my god, just discovered your channel, this is like the 4th video of yours I'm binging and now I find out your a cider drinker? Defo subscribing!
I love all of these!
Meanwhile, you missed by two favourite ciders. Stowford Press and Rattler.
Great choices though and gotta love a bit of scrumpy though but these are quite weak compared to what we grew up with down on the west country. Great video
I used to live in Somerset and the local farmer's market sold 5-litre plastic containers of cider made from local apples. All my colleagues would be dragging these massive containers back to the office on farmer's market day. Maybe you should go on a cider tour of the west country?!
I also used to live in Somerset and back in the 60s my friends and I used to go to a farm where the cider was home brewed. A 1 gallon canister cost 5 shillings. Yes 25p. Wonderful days.
I’m not sure you know what dry means with booze, but it refers to the AFTERTASTE…IF there is hardly any aftertaste, then it’s very dry. The best example I know of this is Asahi beer [Japanese] try it sometime, comes it a super shiny tall silver can, and it’s the driest stuff ever…like 2 secs later you’re asking your brain, “wait, what did I just drink? was it just water? I taste nothing in my mouth?!”
That was hilarious!
My cider of choice, as a young Sussex kid, was Merrydown Vintage. Definitely the most 'bang for a buck', an impoverished teenager could get.
For the love of all things holy, however, avoid 'white' ciders. They are industrially brewed in vats, taste like alcoholic lighter-fuel, and are brewed from onions. Probably. I sincerely doubt they have ever seen an apple...
True about "white" ciders... the only time I ever completely blacked out from alcohol was after consuming a 3 litre Asda "White Lightning" .
@@shaunw9270 Ooft! I bet you were hanging, the next morning...
Did you ever do a tour of the Merrydown brewery?
@@stephenbarrett8861 I never had the pleasure. I did the Heineken brewery tour in Amsterdam, though. That was fun... 😉
@@tombaxter6228 there were so many different drinks, Elderflower wine, mead and a bunch of ciders. The mead was lethal.
You are a credit to us all Your dedication is remarkable
I love that Alanna put the Old Rosie in her backpack and carried it home! 😀I've spent many happy hours drinking Rosie so should she
You need to test Biddenden cider and Merrydown cider. Shame they didn't make it to the list this time. As an aside, both are excellent when used to make snakebite :)
Love Biddenden cider, especially the special reserve. Used to visit the vineyard frequently. Was never keen on Merrydown. Now, Somerset Scrumpy, that is Soo good.
If only you could still get Merrydown Dry.
Biddenden cider is the nuts ...I love it
Awesome vid was waiting on this ,yes thatchers is a crisp cider nice in summer 👌 with ice , so is magners on a hot day 😋 respect gal Andy from Morecambe ✌🏴🇨🇦🍻
Your Canadian cider video is probably my favourite video, so of course I'm gonna love a follow up UK cider video!
Love cider, wouldn't say no to most lol... If I had to choose one of those, I'd go for the Thatchers Gold too, followed by Henney's. If I could pick any cider, then I'd probs go for Thatchers Rose, Rekorderlig Mango & Raspberry or anything by Brothers, especially toffee apple! Gotta listen to my sweet tooth lol 🍺
Totally agree!! We'll have to do a weird-flavours-episode next!
Really like your videos, generally. Your taste tests are splendid. Have enjoyed lots of them over the years. This one was brilliant too. Ones to try next: these are some of my favourites - Thatchers Katy (7.4%), Thatchers Vintage (7.4%), Henry Westons vintage (8.2%). Yum.
Thatchers Katy (7.4%) is the best
A couple of questions. First what time of the day did you make this .Second after did you go for a curry or kebab. Many thanks. This one should do well . ☺
Can imagine Alanna's calendar... Today is the day😂 ... Next up the snake bite mixture combos.
Alanna you need a trip to Normandy especially the Valley D'auge and try some farm cider bouche, pommeau and Calvados
I love English ciders but I have to admit that Normandy ciders have the edge for me.
My third son is a barrister in London and his husband is a surgeon. Like you, they both prefer cider to beer or ale, as a long-drink alternative to wine. Felix tells me his current favourite is Dunkerton's Black Fox, while his hubby is more fond of the rather more intense flavours of Welsh Mountain Cider.
Henry Weston’s - Vintage Cider. It’s 8.2% and comes in a glass bottle.
It’s absolute rocket fuel. 🚀🤯
3 bottles totally fd, very addictive although found it quite sweet with a big kick.
Here in the west country (Dorset/Somerset), we have traditional farm house cider that you buy from......wait for it....yes you guessed it. The farm. I used to buy gallons of this back in the day. My fav was a mixture of dry and sweet. And add small amount of fizzy vimto. And bang, you have yourself one hell of party and hangover so bad, that the sun is your enemy the next day. It's absolutely lovely and lethal compared to the supermarket stuff :D
British cider, the superhero drink. Just a couple of pints and you turn into Captain Nonsense!
Not going to lie... when you said you're taste testing ciders, I expected them all to get full marks based on your previous expressions of love for cider.
I grew up in Somerset cider country and boy has she got a lot to learn . . . It'll be fun though
Hi, Alanna, that was brilliant and so entertaining, the picture of you on your knees with a glass of cider in each hand was a classic, it would have made a great thumbnail for this. If this doesn't get thousands and thousands of views I'll be astonished, it was great, well done.
Thanks Stephen!! Glad you liked the video!
I would recommend you try Black Dragon Cider by Gwynt Y Ddraig, I have never found it in the supermarkets in England, but can get it in Wales no problem and there are some websites that sell in England. Edit, it used to be sold at Waitrose but stopped for some reason and sometimes Wetherspoons (near me) has it on tap for a limited time.
Great suggestion!
Seconded. It's a very nice cider.
+1 on the Black Dragon. Outside of Wales, I've most often found it at beer festivals.
You have me wanting to retry all of these! Out of these, I would have to pick Thatchers gold, with Henneys as a close second. Old Rosie is a favourite for making mulled cider at Christmas. However my all time favourite cider is Stowford Press, which I think you would appreciate, given your love for Thatchers 🥰
Thanks so much for watching!!
Roger Wilkins, if you know you know
Great video, much love from Somerset🙂
No Taunton Dry Blackthorne Cider? That was my favourite as a student when I lived in the UK in the 70's. A cider for "Laying down and avoiding".
I also liked that some years ago, but it’s been through some changes since the 1970s. The Taunton Cider Company was taken over in 1996, and in the 21st century there have been changes to the recipe.
Just started watching this and got that deja vue feeling (think beer testing) . Watching from the start knowing that you are going to get hammered again!! Brilliant fun watching you !!
Growing up in Somerset we would get Riches or Lanes traditional scrumpy cider by the gallon or half gallon which in our early teenage years would be £2.50 a gallon. Not so available anymore in the shops but if you go to a cider farm it's probably around £10 - £15 a gallon now. It was also sold in all the pubs and there is still traditional Somerset cider sold in some pubs and clubs now but not very many. It's probably due to there being more local farms in those days that made traditional Somerset scrumpy cider.
At the risk of appearing to repeat myself, the way you express gratitude for your life is 👏 you should never lose that
I am with you there Alanna nothing better than a nice cold glass of Cider sitting in the sunshine watching the day go by. Enjoying your take on my favourite drink
Middle Farm, outside Lewes in Sussex. National cider and perry collection. You get a little thimble glass to taste from the loads of barrels of draught cider before you buy. Bring a designated driver.
Thatchers Gold is the best. No question. The last drink I bought my Dad was a pint of Thatchers Gold on a hot, summer day and he absolutely loved it.
Yes about time Alanna get in Andy here just about to watch !!x
When I saw you starting off with Thatchers at 4.8% and then saw the video was 20 minutes long I knew this would be a good one!
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I think that the "doesn't taste like alcohol at all" illusion occurs with cider, more times than it doesn't. At times, even when I'm drinking the strongest cider available to me, providing it's good quality cider, I find myself quaffing it as though it were just a soft drink - of course an hour or so later (when the tunnel vision sets in, and I find my legs wobbly,) I realise how strong it is.
Found this channel randomly, glad I did. great content. i too am Canadian living in the U.K., but ive been here most of my life.
Awesome! Thank you!
Friendly, inclusive and appletasty comment on the path of Cider world domination! I recall the funky Canadian Cider tasting in summer - that ended in a way more wobbly state :D Must have been the sun ;) Great video and keep them coming ^^
🥳 Thanks so much!
I really love ❤️ seeing Alanna get wasted or drunk on different ciders it’s hilarious and Great entertainment 😂
I'm catching up on all your videos at the moment. It seems to me though 50% of them are you getting sozzled. I approve. Keep up the good work ;p
I suggest you visit the National Collection of Cider and Perry at Middle Farm near Lewes, Sussex. They have barrels of the stuff that you try before you buy. The only problem is that the more you try the less able you are to decide what to buy. It is where my partner Jo (whose RUclips account I use) bought me me a couple of pints of Rough Old Wife, the label of which I still have stuck on the fridge to this day. Happy drinking. Glenn.
Old Rosie is made down the road from me, it's actually a farm, cottage industry. I buy it on the regular, I fill an empty 2ltr pop bottle 3/4 full stick it in the freezer. Once the water has frozen, what you are left with is real scrumpy jack. If you decide to do it, it tastes delicious, go carefully,you have seriously increased the alcohol!
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What about Strongbow or Woodpecker?
I used to have a pint of half/half called Strongpecker.
I'm not kidding either......
white lightning is popular with certain types of outdoor drinkers
Ideally, best sampled on a park bench!
The ciders I recall from my youth are Bulmers' and Gaymers'.
Coates' was another good one.
Can't remember the one I tried in Norwich; loverly in the mouth, like sandpaper to swallow.
No idea if they're still made; there's been shenanigins with cider, from orchards to the shelf since back then.
Very few modern ciders I recognise as ciders, even.
Have discovered that mixing Apple and Mango juice with two thirds soda water gets somewhere close.
You should try Cornish Rattler it is supposed to taste amazing but in Cornwall they only serve you one pint at the bar because it is so strong, you feel fine until you try and move & your legs don’t work. But they also do it by the bottle
Healy,s Rattler or reserve super good. My kind of girl 😁. Remember (just), agricultural show, me and my buddy found the Westons stand. Started at one end drinking every type then back to the start to confirm they were good. Didnt take the mrs shopping after hmmm. Great show Alanna much fun.
Great burp. Well done for including it.
I have to say I absolutely love these videos as you make me laugh so hard everytime ❤😂
You know as soon as you see the title “The U.K Has the Best Cider” that Alanna is gonna be tipsy by bottle 4 …that girls becoming more British every day
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What do you mean, by bottle 4?!? Alanna would have been plonked by the 2nd bottle, especially if she drank the whole thing! 😎
"Old brown Rosie. Rose of Alabamie. The sweetest apple posy is the rose of Alabama."
Where I grew up in Devon the local cider was Inches cider. In mid 90s Bulmer bought it and closed the factory down.
The cider factory was bought and a new company Winkleigh cider company makes proper cider and scrumpy. It is often referred to as Sam's cider, Sam Inch was the original owner of Inches cider.
The cider and scrumpy is very nice. If I want any now, I get it online as they mostly sell it in Devon
For those you get in the supermarket I prefer Dry Blackthorn or Thatchers.
Thanks for watching!
Slarmied Alanna, belching and slurring her words, complaining to a passing truck, "I'm trying to be professional!' Classic, why we love you :-)
We really do appreciate the sacrifices you are prepared to make in the cause of scientific enquiry. I'm just glad I'm not the one coming home to find you on the hearthrug surrounded by empty bottles and scattered peanuts....
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When I lived in Bristol in the 1990s I'd drink Thatchers Rough or Thatchers Smooth, rough was cheaper than the smooth.
I work for a bookseller and many years ago we unearthed a tome on how to make cider published in 1646! Slap bang in the middle of the Civil War and we English still had our priorities right!
Hi Alanna. Such a joy to watch your drink tastings. There are a couple more Aspull ciders, same shaped bottles but with green or red? lbels denoted maybe sweeter tastes. My personal favourite is the green label. Worth a try. Thanks again for your very humorous opinions. Always funny and informative too! 👍
Get yourself down to Cornwall, to Healey's Cider tasting room....you can have a little taste of everything before you buy....lol ( I did)
I'm a BIG fan of Henney's (much prefer dry to sweet ciders) - it's quality stuff! Hearing you attempt to pronounce "Herefordshire" made me chuckle! It's pronounced more like "Herrah-fudd-shuh". And I know I'm being pedantic here, but those outside areas at pubs are called beer gardens, not pub gardens, even if you're not drinking beer in them! 😉
get yourself down to Somerset, go to almost any village and stop at the hand written sign advertising "farmhouse scrumpy". Its usually about 8% minimum, cloudy, flat and will blow your socks off. They will offer you tasters and invite you to try blends of different types, that's proper cider.
I'd love to!
This must be the daintiest taste test! I'd have been swigging mouthfuls and on the floor by number 4. I admire your sipping restraint my dear. I give you 6 outta 6 fizzy burps for your content. Love your vids Alanna!
I love the way you start shlurrrrring after the 3rd drink! Ily
Nothing better than a cold cider on a hot summer day - can't wait for them to return. Dry roasted peanuts are the perfect accompaniment. Super video Alanna!
Thanks so much!
the row of drinks behind Alanna reminds me of a demo I saw once on the necessity of keeping yourself hydrated
I drink normal asples as it's made just a few miles from my house. Using glasses is better as we get to see the colour of the drinks.
Tried this Scottish cider called Thistly Cross.Its so good.
One of the funniest things on here for a while….getting gently pissed with a sizeable RUclips audience …..class 👍
Thanks for watching!!
Wow, that was fun to watch and I bet even more fun for you ! 😂 I don't drink cider, but sounds like I could be persuaded 😃 - I really liked the picture you painted of drinking outside in the summertime - roll on summer !
Thatchers gold made from concentrated apple and full off sugar 😋 try westons organic
I love your videos this one is very close to my heart as I too love cider. you must try Henry Weston medium sweet vintage cider, I love Thatchers gold and Magners original. But out and out favourite is the Weston.
Cider is great. I live in Toronto with some great British pubs where cider is a super alternative to beer. I prefer it over beer.
We love visiting cideries. Rich's Cider farm and Perrys Cider farm both is somerset are a must visit if you ever get to visit there. ( free samples at perrys ;) )
One of my colleagues tried to scale a cider mountain at a beer festival - climbing up the og scale and back down the other side. There were 10 ciders and Old Rosie was halfway up the mountain. He made it to ninth cider before he gave up totally wasted. Some were proper scrumpy rather than commercial scrumpy. Pokey old stuff
I could do that with half pints, no way I'd make it to the ninth on full pints.
Devon Scrumpy is truly AMAZING!
A woman after my own heart. Nothing can beat a good cider, I like Westons and Thatchers.
Thought you'd learnt how to pronounce Herefordshire by now!
Great vid, don't know if you have yet but Thatchers Katy might be my fave cider
"Can you guess what year this company was founded?"
I don't know, maybe the one clearly shown on the B-roll footage currently onscreen? ;) :D
Watch out for that Old Rosie! The stuff is lethal.
No kidding!
Looking forward to more videos in this series because you are the most fun tipsy person ever 😂 You’re giving me so many recommendations for my trip to the UK this summer!
Ahh hope you have a great time!!
You can visit Weston factory and have a tour of the workings then get a taste of their ciders in the shop at the end, very worth while trip and visit.
Love the burp, that there is standard for drinking cider, I love me some scrumpy Jack, ice and fresh mango juice on a late summer eve, you'll have to try it, it's ace.
Great content
Peace and love from the UK 🇬🇧
Since moving to the UK I'm missing my Sommersby and Oakangan. I've found Old Mout to be a good alternative here at least.
2:06 A 'glug' of approval!
Drinking beer from a bottle or can is as Canadian as hockey and snow shoveling. Cheers fellow Canadian. ~ulrich
Thanks for watching!