Americans try proper British Cider in Somerset England

[@TravelBeans]

Aw you guy!, we just watched this with the HasBeans! We miss you guys and look forward to our next adventure 😊

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

We miss you!!!!! Thanks for such a lovely intro the England!

[@thomaswarren2699]

​@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.

[@EricIrl]

@@thomaswarren2699 The French do some nice ciders too.

[@DatFwad]

@@thomaswarren2699 We're leaving the EU, we're not leaving Europe.

[@andrewcullen8635]

@@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.

[@andysutcliffe3915]

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.

[@r.sharpe1206]

Epic

[@MrPaultopp]

Job done ,

[@MrFlashpoint1978]

THAT'S proper cider.

[@Butterflylion1]

I found one called fall over water.

[@Sinvisigoth]

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.

[@gameram6382]

It's great to see American people seeing the real England not London

[@Codex7777]

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.

[@dfpguitar]

@@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.

[@GameFreak7744]

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.

[@dfpguitar]

@@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)!

[@GameFreak7744]

@@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.)

[@vectrexer]

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.

[@alexwilkinson1689]

vectrexer what a hero!

[@TwofourA]

What

[@ChrisPage68]

We appreciate your efforts despite the circumstances. 😉

[@GameFreak7744]

Its dangerous stuff alright, sneaks up on ya when you aint looking and steals your legs.

[@andyelliott8027]

@@TwofourA Drunk.

[@keithrobinson974]

The trouble with cider is, it's so nice to drink, before you know it, your legless, Oh and don't ever put ice in cider, that's a no no

[@sejbomb]

Don't want to water down that goodness!!

[@keithrobinson974]

@@sejbomb, serve it chilled...yes, But add water....no, definitely

[@mattlewis5190]

Ice only dilutes a drink if you're a slow drinker

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

Matt Lewis ice cubes in Cider is that crap from Ireland.

[@thelwulfeoforlic6482]

Keith Robinson - Cyder / Cider should be drunk at room temperature to get the full range of subtle flavours; only a pleb would drink it cold! 🤮

[@alicedell8595]

Americans Get Rat-arsed in Somerset! Love it.

[@rachelsl4492]

Have not heard/seen my favourite word rat-arsed used for a very long time 😊

[@Twirlyhead]

Scrumpy looks and tastes the same when you drink it and when you throw it up. Great stuff.

[@robw7676]

"They're so easy to drink" Famous last words 🤪

[@tdtchazer7244]

Goes down like water but the right cider fucks you real quick

[@johnbrereton5229]

That's where the danger lies !😏

[@ChrisPage68]

For the uninitiated, there are three main types of Cider - Fightin' Cider, Singing Cider and Sleeping Cider. 😜

[@PhilipShand]

I agree with your 3 but the order is wrong. The second should be first,the firshed shoood be shekund & the.....um,the..... damn,I'm gunnna shleeep .....now.

[@cogidubnus1953]

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...

[@normanwallace7658]

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??

[@TherealLumpendoodle]

Been there, done that, got the toilet roll.

[@clintonpharoah1169]

"Sandford " in Hot Fuzz was actually filmed in Wells,Somerset

[@TerranSol]

Make Sanford Great Again. Hehe sound familiar?

[@leonbrooks2107]

As long as we all agree that Strongbow isn’t Cider we can all be friends.

[@TheNicoliyah]

Leon Brooks 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾😂

[@Bungo_the_Gimp]

Wrongbow

[@TheNicoliyah]

Cameron Simpson “wrong bow! Love it 😂😂😂😂

[@lewistillett206]

Nah Strongbow’s alright

[@forlife-sv8hr]

strong bow is for teenagers that cant handle lager

[@jca111]

Should have taken them to a farm that makes their own "Rough".

[@altaylor3988]

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.

[@MrAvant123]

Agree - in Devon just across the border there is some very serious and gorgeous farm cider produced which would have blown them away,,

[@smooth_sundaes5172]

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

[@MegaBoilermaker]

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.

[@tilerman]

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!

[@thelightisahead]

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!

[@jamesculbert4760]

Well done for getting out of London, experiencing beautiful England

[@guybristow7472]

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.

[@edmundblackadder2741]

Amazing video guys. As someone who was born and bred in Somerset I should mention something to to all non Brits Somerset is the COUNTY, so for example you could visit Glastonbury in Somerset or Chedder Village in Somerset "Where Chedder cheese was invented". I know a lot of Americans get confused, its like how you have your States in a way. But yes apple cider was invented also in Somerset along with Cornish pasties so come along and enjoy if you ever get the chance.

[@davesimms5397]

It's Scrumpy cos as kids nicking apples from someones orchard was called Scrumping.

[@peadarruane6582]

My Favourite word in the English language is the verb 'to scrump', Scrumping is the act of stealing apples from an orchard. No other fruit, merely apples.

[@scottb5716]

mine is shitfaced, also a verb. To be shitfaced.

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

Hot Fuzz was also filmed in Wells, Somerset; a friend of mine was an extra

[@Loudon70]

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.

[@CrazyInWeston]

The "Sandford" location was actually for Sandford Gloucestershire despite there being a Sandford in Somerset and filming was in Wells, Somerset.

[@Loudon70]

@@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.

[@homeone4054]

Yarp?

[@jimwalsh8520]

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.

[@chriswalford9228]

My Dad used to tell me a story about a real cider drinking pub. The old guys that drank there would buy a half pint at a time. It was served in a pint glass because by the time they got to were they were sitting in the courtyard , they'd spilled half . Dad also worked in a cider pressing place and it all went in dead rats etc. My family name is Walford and it's a Somerset name.

[@luke_1152]

Being from Somerset, this was an interesting watch. Haze all the way! Lol

[@catherineturner2839]

I love scrumpy, bought from the various cider farms in Somerset

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

'Leg Bender' Scrumpy, the clue is in the name, delicious.

[@jamiebpratt]

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

[@speleokeir]

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.

[@MarkFarm]

Pomagne was made by Bulmers Cider makers in Hereford. Looked like champagne, tasted like shite!

[@MrDaiseymay]

AFTER TWO PINTS OF REAL 'SCRUMPY' CIDER-- WE ALSO CALL IT ''FALL TIME'' ----FALL ON YOUR FACE TIME..

[@0saintclark0]

"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.

[@logan1963uk]

Should have bought them a pint of Old Rosie, and sent a cab for them later.

[@GameFreak7744]

Sadly they seem to have dropped the alcohol content down to 6.8% on that in recent years... Still tastes bloody great though.

[@logan1963uk]

@@GameFreak7744 awww man! Used to be 8.2 as I recall?

[@stevekimberley4892]

Filth.

[@redf7209]

but these are commercially mass produced. The traditional cider will be the scrumpy and give you a headache in the morning

[@vincerussett7922]

Sorry, but that's just folklore. The word 'scrumpy' is now regarded as mildly offensive, remembering stupid stories about dead rats in the cider, largely promoted by beer breweries: real farmhouse artisanal cider is as varied and as different as any grape wines. What could be more clean and green than a drink made from apple juice and absolutely nothing else? (Well some producers put sulphites in, but thankfully that is becoming less common).There is absolutely nothing wrong with Thatcher's: Martin Thatcher has put cider back centrally in people's drinking, and bless him for that, but to taste farmhouse Somerset cider, you should also visit some of the other smaller producers, like Julian Temperley at Kingsbury Episcopi, Roger Wilkins at Mudgeley, or Ben Crossman at Hewish, near Weston-super-Mare. Trust me - I'm a Somerset man born and bred, and I've been drinking cider for decades.My friends say 'A day without cider, is a day wasted'.

[@sticks5614]

@@vincerussett7922 Sorry mate it's not, it was a chicken foot to start the fermentation process as there is no yeast like in beer/ale. It doesn't matter though as the cider is acidic and eats it all away though now that sort of thing is not done for obvious reasons as they found the apples usually actually do ferment themselves, another way is use a UV treated Sweet Apple to start it but I've also been told a lot of the Micro Breweries now use a wine yeast to start the fermentation process. Either way dead rats aren't used so you were right. Pity they don't do "Natch" anymore though, I mean proper "Natch" not the stuff in tins.

[@simonharper4199]

@@vincerussett7922 . 'Rough cider' or scrumpy Definitely gives you a pounding head and dodgy bowels in the morning. the only cure for this is to drink it regularly and this stops .Definately not an occasional drink. I speak as someone who grew up in somerset drinking rough cider from local mills where you buy it out of the oak brandy barrels and is decanted into a plastic bottle. Burrow Hill in south somerset is a truly authentic brewer (aka Timperleys) but be prepared for the morning after

[@vincerussett7922]

Well to be fair, people who aren't used to real cider may find it's introduction difficult, but then hey, some people eat Carolina Reapers...proper cider is clean, and only made from apple juice. Some of the more recidivist makers still use sulphites and artificial sweeteners, but most makers are trying to break away from this. The yeasts to start fermentation of cider are on the apples themselves, and established makers have yeasts in the air, on the walls and this variety, which is unique to that particular maker, often helps to define the difference between different ciders. 'Fruit ciders' are, to the traditional cider drinker, an abomination, but if people like it, fine, I've got no problem with that.

[@redf7209]

@@vincerussett7922 You're right of course, I have enjoyed many a commercial cider made by big firms. The point i meant to make was that they are in an area known for traditional and very local cider making, some even made by the pub, and it is a wasted opportunity to drink commercial cider you can get almost anywhere.

[@DavidWardle]

Not bad but should have gone to Burrow Hill and got some proper cider

[@RobinPalmerTV]

Melissa Joan Hart and Lisa Snowden go drinking together with two blokes...

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

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

[@amnril]

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..

[@lisastygall9062]

Wilkins scrumpy from wedmore in somerset. Only does sweet or dry, if you want medium he does half and half. Gert lush.

[@jacobreisser8034]

Half a pint of Thatchers with a bottle of Carlsberg Special Brew. The perfect snakebite!

[@Yagdrol]

👍💪

[@tonydd1735]

Love Snakebite 😛😛😛😛

[@mariuscheek]

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...

[@aviewtoill]

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.

[@bathcolin]

The Cheddar is actually called Cheddar Valley or as it's known locally, Chewy.

[@klaudias9736]

Are you planning visit in Oxford? If yes let me know so you can come and stay in my pub with accommodation :)

[@electoplater]

scrumpy is the only cider to drink in a cider house

[@CrazyInWeston]

I love the Scrumpy Jack. Its my favourite.

[@CrazyInWeston]

@peter burry Yes I know that, but thats the name of the cider by Symonds cider company.

[@howardchambers9679]

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!!

[@gedwhittaker874]

Thatchers is my favourite 'standard cider', but, you must try 'Aspalls Premier Cru'. Made in Norfolk, very strong and utterly delicious!

[@philipedwards4570]

Ged Whittaker Suffolk actually 😃👍

[@gedwhittaker874]

@@philipedwards4570 sorry, quite right, must have had a moment!

[@Vixterlk]

Also Cornish Rattler is an absolute delight.

[@gjamesturner391]

Harry Westons Vintage at 8% is hard to improve on.

[@mornafaeanwyn510]

K cider?

[@drewski363]

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 :)

[@roberthindle5146]

Used to love going to the Corrie Tap.

[@iankeel7914]

Anyone that say's Thatchers is the best cider, has clearly never drunk cider, Thatchers is the modern equivalent of Dry Blackthorn, i.e. Factory made *!"*!

[@Wendelia]

I love that these vids are now coming up in my feed 🙌🏻 yay!!!

[@paulguise698]

I like the comment "ITS BEAUTIFUL,ITS LIKE ITS BEEN ON THE TREE ALL DAY"

[@valentinozoboli4592]

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 :)

[@CrazyInWeston]

But the "Sandford" location was for Sandford, Gloucestershire, not for the Sandford in Somerset.

[@karenogush5622]

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.

[@baylessnow]

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

[@Mark-ms5pn]

Go to Burnham on sea

[@CrazyInWeston]

@@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)

[@StuTheMoose]

@@Mark-ms5pn No one should ever go to Burnham on Sea by choice.

[@GrenMagg]

By the time they finally sipped the first one, I would be on my third or fourth pint.

[@andrewsmart4491]

Hot Fuzz was set in Sanford but filmed in Wells, Edgar Wright's home town.

[@christopherdavis1066]

I miss pubs so much. I'd love to go out and have a cider now

[@Reddalek888]

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

[@mattridgley9095]

My preferred gourmet cider is White Lightning

[@nvw2978]

matt cheltenham You classy Sod! X

[@jonnyb2774]

You need to try 3 hammers, Or as we call it with my mates, gut rot.

[@k9nick]

Summerset cider is for tourists. Proper cider is scrumpy made in a shed at the back of a farm. Complete with fomented ample.

[@johnmcaleer7099]

They used cider tasting as an excuse for a pub crawl and a bender😂😂😂

[@mollie-rosedent-davis8662]

I live in Somerset and it’s gorgeous here ❤️

[@fox39forever]

Long may England remain this way! Check-out the census from 1991-2011 and then see how it changes next year, 2021.

[@pablo19136]

There are a number of small cider farms in Somerset which make excellent Cider. Wilkins springs to mind , great bloke.

[@philiptucker5075]

A lifetime living in Taunton, brought up on cider. So much decent cider around. We moved to Cardiff last year. In pubs here "what cider have you got"?. "Strongbow or those vile strawberry alocpops" pretending to be cider is normally the answer. I have actually started drinking lager again. Drink up thee cider, say I.

[@Codex7777]

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.

[@jerrybootneck1736]

Hope our American friends tried some real cider from our cider farms like Sheppy's in Taunton and Perry's cider mill in Crewkerne. Both companies make excellent cider.

[@Andy_U]

Hiya. Over 200k subs now? I didn't notice. That's great! But I'm not surprised with vlogs like this. So full of life and so family-like, it's simply ALIVE!!! All the best to you.

[@PFletcherNWO]

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!

[@simonwillis1529]

Love seeing you Americans here in uk seeing it from your point of view

[@simonwillis1529]

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 😁

[@PhilipShand]

Cider should always be alcoholic,if not then it's apple juice.

[@Round_07]

Well done on sampling a bit of the ‘real’ England away from London

[@Codex7777]

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.

[@carolynjanesutton4932]

@@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.

[@wullaballoo2642]

If you like a dry cider try perrys bottle conditioned. Bottled with wild yeast it isn't sweet at all.

[@andistuttgart9067]

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.

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

True, Germany seems pretty set in their beer 🍺 😂

[@animalian01]

Cider is not Cider it isn't the same at all

[@joanhall3718]

I can tell you haven’t spent much time in the US recently, there are thousands of micro cider breweries. It’s not hard to find a good dry cider. My favorite -Seattle Cider Co. Dry Cider

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

True! But “traditionally” cider is just pressed apple juice with spices. :p I know it’s shifting now.

[@TT-zd6nr]

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!

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

Haha, oh boy, that had to have been 'fun' :p

[@rachael4512]

Haha what a mistake to make. Surely you could taste the difference?

[@TT-zd6nr]

@@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 !

[@scoops0406]

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!

[@eamonquinn5188]

No, Hot Fuzz was in the fictional illage of Sandford, but actually filmed in the wonderful town of Wells

[@whereslucie]

Ah yay, we're from Somerset originally but now based in London for a bit! Hope you enjoy all that lovely cider! 🙂

[@mel_by_the_sea1549]

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

[@GameFreak7744]

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

[@paultaylor701]

Just remember Fall is something you do on ice or down stairs

[@GillRant]

Or after a few ciders 😂

[@autumn8177]

Autumn's here. I approve of this video! Im gonna go have fish and chips.

[@dragonmac1234]

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 :-)

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

Haha, I heard of some legendary ciders like that.

[@sticks5614]

@@WAYAWAYWithAsh If you want a pint of screech get one made with Kingston Black apples, really nice scrumpy.

[@arctic-1878]

5 pounds for three different kinds. Here In Norway you wouldn't even have gotten one kind for that price😅

[@downsman1]

I don't wish to offend but that sounds like a damn good reason not to live in Norway (beautiful though it is).

[@tcroft2165]

Cider is cheap even for UK alcohol; Norway not so much ;-)

[@spencerwilton5831]

arctic 1878 Yes, but those are only a third of a pint each, so £5 a pint. That's expensive by British standards.

[@noifurze6397]

@@spencerwilton5831 true I can get a pint of Thatcher's for£2.50 at my local

[@CrazyInWeston]

This is why Pubs are closing down. In the supermarket I can buy 10 cans for £8 - thats 10 cans at 440ml per can, so 4,400ml for 10 and thus 7 and a half UK sized pints (9.3 US pints) if at £3.50 per pint thats £24.50 just for the 7 pints. Its a no brainer... £8 or £24.50? hmmmm the £8 option please.

[@firehandszarb]

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.

[@williamvitkovitch8591]

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. : )

[@neilmurrell281]

You know its real cider when they won't serve it to strangers in pints and when you stand up your legs are buckled.

[@sbaker3426]

Sittin’ around gettin’ drunk all day, cheers!

[@leylaevans9116]

We bought cider from a farmer who made it, wow knocked your socks off

[@ChelseaPensioner-DJW]

When I find a drink that I really like my description is usually, That's Dangerous!

[@vtbn53]

What you were drinking at the last is what the French got the idea from for Champagne

[@davidhoward5392]

Scrumpy can seriously ruin your day, the really brave drink it with Guinness, wonderful stuff

[@briandenning4851]

Being from Somerset, the couple you lot were with did their research. Well done!

[@dennisbain2348]

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

[@paulhill1665]

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.

[@kierenevans2521]

Thatcher's is alright, personally prefer Weston's or Thistly Cross. As long as it's not Strongbow...

[@carolthomas6334]

Just found this video. Makes me wanna take my hubby there and we only live in Bristol. X

[@stewartmurau6733]

Should have given them White Lightning cider, proper cider.

[@What.he.sayyyyyyy]

jk Bambo would be signing on before they new it

[@zaftra]

I had gallons of that in the 90's, they baned it, frosty jack is the closest.

[@tonys1636]

This series should be titled 'Beans home and away away'. 💋💋

[@WAYAWAYWithAsh]

Haha, I love it

[@NotaBene1210]

Wilkins cider farm in Mudgley. Hands down the best scrumpy farm in Somerset.

[@mikedeleon4246]

Great to see the best travel Bloggers from the USA and the best travel bloggers from the UK together, you guys make awesome videos ! Ashely And Emma really pretty girls !

[@chrismadge5472]

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.

[@CrazyInWeston]

Bet you're glad that the Banwell bypass has finally been given the go ahead!!

[@AndysEastCoastAdventures]

Cider is really easy to make if people want authentic stuff.

[@CrazyInWeston]

I live 5 miles away from the Thatchers Cider Farm and I love a Thatchers be it Gold, Rose, Katy, Old rascal or Haze. Yummy stuff.

[@GameFreak7744]

They do anything a bit more on the lines of Westons Old Rosie by any chance? Think I've only tried their Gold & Katy, but they weren't quite what I was lookin for.

[@andrewgarrett7100]

@@GameFreak7744 They still do proper cider, You can get flagons straight from the barrel at their shop.

[@MichaelcookeSUFC]

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