Aw you guy!, we just watched this with the HasBeans! We miss you guys and look forward to our next adventure 😊
@WAYAWAYWithAsh5 жыл бұрын
We miss you!!!!! Thanks for such a lovely intro the England!
@thomaswarren26994 жыл бұрын
@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.
@EricIrl4 жыл бұрын
@@thomaswarren2699 The French do some nice ciders too.
@DatFwad4 жыл бұрын
@@thomaswarren2699 We're leaving the EU, we're not leaving Europe.
@andrewcullen86354 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@andysutcliffe39155 жыл бұрын
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.sharpe12065 жыл бұрын
Epic
@MrPaultopp4 жыл бұрын
Job done ,
@MrFlashpoint19784 жыл бұрын
THAT'S proper cider.
@Butterflylion14 жыл бұрын
I found one called fall over water.
@Sinvisigoth4 жыл бұрын
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.
@gameram63825 жыл бұрын
It's great to see American people seeing the real England not London
@Codex77774 жыл бұрын
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.
@dfpguitar4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@GameFreak77444 жыл бұрын
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.
@dfpguitar4 жыл бұрын
@@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)!
@GameFreak77444 жыл бұрын
@@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.)
@vectrexer5 жыл бұрын
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.
@alexwilkinson16895 жыл бұрын
vectrexer what a hero!
@TwofourA5 жыл бұрын
What
@ChrisPage685 жыл бұрын
We appreciate your efforts despite the circumstances. 😉
@GameFreak77444 жыл бұрын
Its dangerous stuff alright, sneaks up on ya when you aint looking and steals your legs.
@andyelliott80272 жыл бұрын
@@TwofourA Drunk.
@keithrobinson9745 жыл бұрын
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
@sejbomb5 жыл бұрын
Don't want to water down that goodness!!
@keithrobinson9745 жыл бұрын
@@sejbomb, serve it chilled...yes, But add water....no, definitely
@mattlewis51905 жыл бұрын
Ice only dilutes a drink if you're a slow drinker
@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming5 жыл бұрын
Matt Lewis ice cubes in Cider is that crap from Ireland.
@thelwulfeoforlic64825 жыл бұрын
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! 🤮
@alicedell85955 жыл бұрын
Americans Get Rat-arsed in Somerset! Love it.
@rachelsl44924 жыл бұрын
Have not heard/seen my favourite word rat-arsed used for a very long time 😊
@Twirlyhead4 жыл бұрын
Scrumpy looks and tastes the same when you drink it and when you throw it up. Great stuff.
@robw76764 жыл бұрын
"They're so easy to drink" Famous last words 🤪
@tdtchazer72442 жыл бұрын
Goes down like water but the right cider fucks you real quick
@johnbrereton52292 жыл бұрын
That's where the danger lies !😏
@ChrisPage685 жыл бұрын
For the uninitiated, there are three main types of Cider - Fightin' Cider, Singing Cider and Sleeping Cider. 😜
@PhilipShand6 ай бұрын
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.
@cogidubnus19535 жыл бұрын
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...
@normanwallace76585 ай бұрын
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??
@TherealLumpendoodle4 ай бұрын
Been there, done that, got the toilet roll.
@clintonpharoah11693 жыл бұрын
"Sandford " in Hot Fuzz was actually filmed in Wells,Somerset
@TerranSol4 ай бұрын
Make Sanford Great Again. Hehe sound familiar?
@leonbrooks21074 жыл бұрын
As long as we all agree that Strongbow isn’t Cider we can all be friends.
@TheNicoliyah4 жыл бұрын
Leon Brooks 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾😂
@Bungo_the_Gimp4 жыл бұрын
Wrongbow
@TheNicoliyah4 жыл бұрын
Cameron Simpson “wrong bow! Love it 😂😂😂😂
@lewistillett2063 жыл бұрын
Nah Strongbow’s alright
@forlife-sv8hr3 жыл бұрын
strong bow is for teenagers that cant handle lager
@jca1115 жыл бұрын
Should have taken them to a farm that makes their own "Rough".
@altaylor39885 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrAvant1235 жыл бұрын
Agree - in Devon just across the border there is some very serious and gorgeous farm cider produced which would have blown them away,,
@smooth_sundaes51725 жыл бұрын
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
@MegaBoilermaker5 жыл бұрын
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.
@tilerman4 жыл бұрын
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!
@thelightisahead4 жыл бұрын
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!
@jamesculbert47603 жыл бұрын
Well done for getting out of London, experiencing beautiful England
@guybristow74723 жыл бұрын
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.
@edmundblackadder27414 жыл бұрын
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.
@davesimms53974 жыл бұрын
It's Scrumpy cos as kids nicking apples from someones orchard was called Scrumping.
@peadarruane65825 жыл бұрын
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.
@scottb57167 ай бұрын
mine is shitfaced, also a verb. To be shitfaced.
@catherinerobilliard76625 жыл бұрын
Hot Fuzz was also filmed in Wells, Somerset; a friend of mine was an extra
@Loudon705 жыл бұрын
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.
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
The "Sandford" location was actually for Sandford Gloucestershire despite there being a Sandford in Somerset and filming was in Wells, Somerset.
@Loudon705 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@homeone40544 жыл бұрын
Yarp?
@jimwalsh85202 жыл бұрын
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.
@chriswalford92284 жыл бұрын
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_11524 жыл бұрын
Being from Somerset, this was an interesting watch. Haze all the way! Lol
@catherineturner28395 жыл бұрын
I love scrumpy, bought from the various cider farms in Somerset
@mrcockney-nutjob38324 жыл бұрын
'Leg Bender' Scrumpy, the clue is in the name, delicious.
@jamiebpratt4 жыл бұрын
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
@speleokeir4 жыл бұрын
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.
@MarkFarm4 жыл бұрын
Pomagne was made by Bulmers Cider makers in Hereford. Looked like champagne, tasted like shite!
@MrDaiseymay4 жыл бұрын
AFTER TWO PINTS OF REAL 'SCRUMPY' CIDER-- WE ALSO CALL IT ''FALL TIME'' ----FALL ON YOUR FACE TIME..
@0saintclark03 жыл бұрын
"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.
@logan1963uk4 жыл бұрын
Should have bought them a pint of Old Rosie, and sent a cab for them later.
@GameFreak77444 жыл бұрын
Sadly they seem to have dropped the alcohol content down to 6.8% on that in recent years... Still tastes bloody great though.
@logan1963uk4 жыл бұрын
@@GameFreak7744 awww man! Used to be 8.2 as I recall?
@stevekimberley48923 жыл бұрын
Filth.
@redf72095 жыл бұрын
but these are commercially mass produced. The traditional cider will be the scrumpy and give you a headache in the morning
@vincerussett79225 жыл бұрын
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'.
@sticks56145 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@simonharper41995 жыл бұрын
@@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
@vincerussett79225 жыл бұрын
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.
@redf72095 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@DavidWardle4 жыл бұрын
Not bad but should have gone to Burrow Hill and got some proper cider
@RobinPalmerTV5 жыл бұрын
Melissa Joan Hart and Lisa Snowden go drinking together with two blokes...
@Whiteshirtloosetie5 жыл бұрын
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
@amnrilАй бұрын
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..
@lisastygall90624 жыл бұрын
Wilkins scrumpy from wedmore in somerset. Only does sweet or dry, if you want medium he does half and half. Gert lush.
@jacobreisser80342 жыл бұрын
Half a pint of Thatchers with a bottle of Carlsberg Special Brew. The perfect snakebite!
@Yagdrol5 ай бұрын
👍💪
@tonydd17355 ай бұрын
Love Snakebite 😛😛😛😛
@mariuscheek10 ай бұрын
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...
@aviewtoill4 жыл бұрын
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.
@bathcolin11 ай бұрын
The Cheddar is actually called Cheddar Valley or as it's known locally, Chewy.
@klaudias97365 жыл бұрын
Are you planning visit in Oxford? If yes let me know so you can come and stay in my pub with accommodation :)
@electoplater5 жыл бұрын
scrumpy is the only cider to drink in a cider house
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
I love the Scrumpy Jack. Its my favourite.
@CrazyInWeston4 жыл бұрын
@peter burry Yes I know that, but thats the name of the cider by Symonds cider company.
@howardchambers96795 жыл бұрын
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!!
@gedwhittaker8745 жыл бұрын
Thatchers is my favourite 'standard cider', but, you must try 'Aspalls Premier Cru'. Made in Norfolk, very strong and utterly delicious!
@philipedwards45705 жыл бұрын
Ged Whittaker Suffolk actually 😃👍
@gedwhittaker8745 жыл бұрын
@@philipedwards4570 sorry, quite right, must have had a moment!
@Vixterlk5 жыл бұрын
Also Cornish Rattler is an absolute delight.
@gjamesturner3914 жыл бұрын
Harry Westons Vintage at 8% is hard to improve on.
@mornafaeanwyn5104 жыл бұрын
K cider?
@drewski3634 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@roberthindle51466 ай бұрын
Used to love going to the Corrie Tap.
@iankeel79145 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I love that these vids are now coming up in my feed 🙌🏻 yay!!!
@paulguise6983 жыл бұрын
I like the comment "ITS BEAUTIFUL,ITS LIKE ITS BEEN ON THE TREE ALL DAY"
@valentinozoboli45925 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
But the "Sandford" location was for Sandford, Gloucestershire, not for the Sandford in Somerset.
@karenogush56225 жыл бұрын
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.
@baylessnow5 жыл бұрын
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-ms5pn5 жыл бұрын
Go to Burnham on sea
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
@@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)
@StuTheMoose4 жыл бұрын
@@Mark-ms5pn No one should ever go to Burnham on Sea by choice.
@GrenMagg4 жыл бұрын
By the time they finally sipped the first one, I would be on my third or fourth pint.
@andrewsmart44913 жыл бұрын
Hot Fuzz was set in Sanford but filmed in Wells, Edgar Wright's home town.
@christopherdavis10663 жыл бұрын
I miss pubs so much. I'd love to go out and have a cider now
@Reddalek8884 жыл бұрын
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
@mattridgley90954 жыл бұрын
My preferred gourmet cider is White Lightning
@nvw29784 жыл бұрын
matt cheltenham You classy Sod! X
@jonnyb27744 жыл бұрын
You need to try 3 hammers, Or as we call it with my mates, gut rot.
@k9nick5 жыл бұрын
Summerset cider is for tourists. Proper cider is scrumpy made in a shed at the back of a farm. Complete with fomented ample.
@johnmcaleer70993 жыл бұрын
They used cider tasting as an excuse for a pub crawl and a bender😂😂😂
@mollie-rosedent-davis86624 жыл бұрын
I live in Somerset and it’s gorgeous here ❤️
@fox39forever4 жыл бұрын
Long may England remain this way! Check-out the census from 1991-2011 and then see how it changes next year, 2021.
@pablo19136 Жыл бұрын
There are a number of small cider farms in Somerset which make excellent Cider. Wilkins springs to mind , great bloke.
@philiptucker50754 жыл бұрын
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.
@Codex77774 жыл бұрын
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.
@jerrybootneck17365 жыл бұрын
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_U5 жыл бұрын
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.
@PFletcherNWO5 жыл бұрын
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!
@simonwillis15294 жыл бұрын
Love seeing you Americans here in uk seeing it from your point of view
@simonwillis15294 жыл бұрын
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 😁
@PhilipShand7 ай бұрын
Cider should always be alcoholic,if not then it's apple juice.
@Round_074 жыл бұрын
Well done on sampling a bit of the ‘real’ England away from London
@Codex77774 жыл бұрын
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.
@carolynjanesutton49324 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@wullaballoo26425 жыл бұрын
If you like a dry cider try perrys bottle conditioned. Bottled with wild yeast it isn't sweet at all.
@andistuttgart90675 жыл бұрын
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.
@WAYAWAYWithAsh5 жыл бұрын
True, Germany seems pretty set in their beer 🍺 😂
@animalian013 жыл бұрын
Cider is not Cider it isn't the same at all
@joanhall37185 жыл бұрын
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
@WAYAWAYWithAsh5 жыл бұрын
True! But “traditionally” cider is just pressed apple juice with spices. :p I know it’s shifting now.
@TT-zd6nr5 жыл бұрын
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!
@WAYAWAYWithAsh5 жыл бұрын
Haha, oh boy, that had to have been 'fun' :p
@rachael45125 жыл бұрын
Haha what a mistake to make. Surely you could taste the difference?
@TT-zd6nr5 жыл бұрын
@@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 !
@scoops04064 жыл бұрын
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!
@eamonquinn51885 ай бұрын
No, Hot Fuzz was in the fictional illage of Sandford, but actually filmed in the wonderful town of Wells
@whereslucie5 жыл бұрын
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_sea15494 жыл бұрын
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
@GameFreak77444 жыл бұрын
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
@paultaylor7015 жыл бұрын
Just remember Fall is something you do on ice or down stairs
@GillRant5 жыл бұрын
Or after a few ciders 😂
@autumn81775 жыл бұрын
Autumn's here. I approve of this video! Im gonna go have fish and chips.
@dragonmac12345 жыл бұрын
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 :-)
@WAYAWAYWithAsh5 жыл бұрын
Haha, I heard of some legendary ciders like that.
@sticks56145 жыл бұрын
@@WAYAWAYWithAsh If you want a pint of screech get one made with Kingston Black apples, really nice scrumpy.
@arctic-18785 жыл бұрын
5 pounds for three different kinds. Here In Norway you wouldn't even have gotten one kind for that price😅
@downsman15 жыл бұрын
I don't wish to offend but that sounds like a damn good reason not to live in Norway (beautiful though it is).
@tcroft21655 жыл бұрын
Cider is cheap even for UK alcohol; Norway not so much ;-)
@spencerwilton58315 жыл бұрын
arctic 1878 Yes, but those are only a third of a pint each, so £5 a pint. That's expensive by British standards.
@noifurze63975 жыл бұрын
@@spencerwilton5831 true I can get a pint of Thatcher's for£2.50 at my local
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
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.
@firehandszarb2 ай бұрын
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.
@williamvitkovitch85914 ай бұрын
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. : )
@neilmurrell2813 жыл бұрын
You know its real cider when they won't serve it to strangers in pints and when you stand up your legs are buckled.
@sbaker34265 жыл бұрын
Sittin’ around gettin’ drunk all day, cheers!
@leylaevans91164 жыл бұрын
We bought cider from a farmer who made it, wow knocked your socks off
@ChelseaPensioner-DJW8 ай бұрын
When I find a drink that I really like my description is usually, That's Dangerous!
@vtbn534 жыл бұрын
What you were drinking at the last is what the French got the idea from for Champagne
@davidhoward53923 жыл бұрын
Scrumpy can seriously ruin your day, the really brave drink it with Guinness, wonderful stuff
@briandenning48515 жыл бұрын
Being from Somerset, the couple you lot were with did their research. Well done!
@dennisbain23484 ай бұрын
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
@paulhill16655 жыл бұрын
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.
@kierenevans25214 жыл бұрын
Thatcher's is alright, personally prefer Weston's or Thistly Cross. As long as it's not Strongbow...
@carolthomas63345 жыл бұрын
Just found this video. Makes me wanna take my hubby there and we only live in Bristol. X
@stewartmurau67335 жыл бұрын
Should have given them White Lightning cider, proper cider.
@What.he.sayyyyyyy5 жыл бұрын
jk Bambo would be signing on before they new it
@zaftra5 жыл бұрын
I had gallons of that in the 90's, they baned it, frosty jack is the closest.
@tonys16365 жыл бұрын
This series should be titled 'Beans home and away away'. 💋💋
@WAYAWAYWithAsh5 жыл бұрын
Haha, I love it
@NotaBene12105 ай бұрын
Wilkins cider farm in Mudgley. Hands down the best scrumpy farm in Somerset.
@mikedeleon42465 жыл бұрын
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 !
@chrismadge54725 жыл бұрын
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.
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
Bet you're glad that the Banwell bypass has finally been given the go ahead!!
@AndysEastCoastAdventures3 жыл бұрын
Cider is really easy to make if people want authentic stuff.
@CrazyInWeston5 жыл бұрын
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.
@GameFreak77444 жыл бұрын
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.
@andrewgarrett71002 жыл бұрын
@@GameFreak7744 They still do proper cider, You can get flagons straight from the barrel at their shop.
@MichaelcookeSUFC5 жыл бұрын
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