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.
Scrumpy Jack is a dangerous fella indeed. Goes down so sweet, tastes so fine, you're there and so happy in the moment that you drink even more... then you stand up and walk sideways into a wall. ;o)
Once went in a pub in Devon while on holiday after hearing people talking about ‘Devon rough’ ended up having three pints and lost seven hours of my life…
These taste tests would be so different if Alanna wasn’t a happy drinker. I think most of us would be happy to spend a sunny summers afternoon in a pub beer garden drinking with Alanna. Great video.
LOL, marvellous! "Old Rosie" has been my favourite drink (by far) for 30 years. It is a bit 'niche' for many folks though. It's been comedy gold watching a lovely young lady getting slightly squiffy on cider 😂
Old Rosie (Westons) is one of the good ones although I'm going through a Sandfords orchards phase (Hangy Downs - definitely on the sweet side) at the moment - they also do a ginger flavoured cider which works really well. Proper (traditional) cider comes without bubbles and with cloudiness.
@@AdventuresAndNaps my old man was in the Royal Navy ( 1943 - 46 ) and when they docked in port down south ( Portsmouth etc ) and went for a Cider ( always cloudy and loads of bits in it ) the landlords would only allow them one pint each because they wasn't used to it but the locals were allowed 3 ish pints , the only time they had 2 pints they understood the reason and that was they couldn't move their legs so had to wait 2hts before they could leave lol
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. 😁
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.
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.
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
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.
I've never yelled at Alanna for using (or not using) her glasses. Find whatever brings you joy... then bring that joy straight to the internet. Five out of five golden apples.
Visited a farm that brews real Scrumpy, Farmer says "this'll put hairs on yuh chest", not perhaps an effect desired by most women. It was fearsome stuff but the Farmer's throwaway line about tossing a dead rat into the vat to aid fermentation I hope was a wind-up!
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 UA-cam 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!
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?!”
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...
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.
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.
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)
Back to my favourite type of videos from you, Alanna 😀😋 Your pronunciation of Herefordshire cracked me up 🤣 I like Old Rosie, although one is enough 😅 And it was 7.3% until 3 years ago.
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!
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
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.
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 ✌🏴🇨🇦🍻
I reckon she should play Edward Cider Hands where you duck tape a 2 litre bottle of Scrumpy to each hand and can't put them down until you've finished them.
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.
Loved it, I have to say I was worried when you sat down for the comparison between Thatchers and Scrumpy that the rest of the video would take place on the floor but well done for powering through😀 I don’t know if you can get it in Kent but Rocquette is quite a nice cider produced in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Oh and just in case you missed the outrage for not using glasses normally “ I am beyond furious that you decanted these into glasses!!😂
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.
Always enjoy your videos alanna - you do make me laugh... Anyway, if you ever go to Dorset,Devon or Cornwall then try a proper Freshly made scrumpy, it tastes beautiful and you can drink looaaads of it without getting a hangover - very good indeed. Keep up the great videos 🤪
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...
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! Like deployed 👍
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.
Only 6 minutes in and I'm already loving this. The fact that you've found a way to make day drinking "work". I really like the tumbler you used for the Henry Western. Ok... 'What were we doing here? Oh yeah, I was rating it!" I do hope you were feeling ok after doing this. But hey, you're clearly enjoying yourself! That you can still read at this point, I think is somewhat impressive. "Don't they know I'm filming? I'm trying to be a professional here! " *hic* Great fun video. I hope you had a nice lie down after.
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.
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.
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 🍺
You have got to love an A&N cider taste video, they start well and then the alcohol kicks in and they just get better including the added burps, so much fun indeed. May I suggest a Naps trip to the West Country to do a taste test tour of the local scrumpy farms to try out there fare. it could get messy but would be great fun to do. Peanuts, come get your peanuts. 🥜🥜🥜😁
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.
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.
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 . ☺
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.
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.
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....
That Old Rosie was non carbonated, try the carbonated ones you get in the 500ml bottles, it makes it better in my opinion. Plus Scrumpy Jack is one of my fave cider of them all, I seriously cannot get enough of it.
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
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.
Alanna, it was one of your videos made me try Thistly Cross. I now have to order several dozen bottles every month or so. My wife has taken to cooking gammon in Thistly Cross Ginger Cider - delicious!
Ahh, the spirit of Keith Floyd lives! :) Great to see you getting pished in the name of UA-cam. Although it could have done with some Tayto Smokey Bacon (don't worry, I ate those so you didn't have to) and you missed my favourite cider ... Healey's Rattler. Nothing better than sitiing at Land's End having a pint of rattler! Scrumpy Jack is my second fav though.
I work at the brewery behind Scrumpy Jack (based in Hereford) and admit that it is not a popular drink within the UK. Our recent big hitter which is pretty sweet is called Inch's. Check it out, it's lovely! Henry Westons is obviously much more authentic. They aren't owned by some large corporation. They are legit and the love goes into the drink, hence the great flavours! Make sure to try their other drinks too.
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.
Born in Somerset and grandmother's family originally from Herefordshire, it's no wonder I like cider. Loved this video as you got happier and happier. Long ago, my favourite was Taunton Exhibition, which I believe is now only available at the Coronation Tap in Bristol. 'We' (I wasn't old enough) used to buy it by the flagon in Uphill. Happy days.
As a Kent resident you need to pick up some Biddendens! Kent cider you can buy it from macknades farm shop and randomly port Lympe Zoo. (100% recommend shit faced zoo days)
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.
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!
Oh lord, the chaos energy is high in this one! You deserve it after the sad meal deals though, treat yoself You're gonna get people complaining about how you said Frome, but it's officially the hardest place in the UK to pronounce, nobody knows how to say it! If you haven't seen that Map Men video on British place names that's a big recommend, I bet you'd love it
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 UA-cam 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.
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
Scrumpy Jack is a dangerous fella indeed. Goes down so sweet, tastes so fine, you're there and so happy in the moment that you drink even more... then you stand up and walk sideways into a wall. ;o)
You should try the real Scrumpy from Somerset, now that is evil
@@garymiles484 Especially when your not sure what colour it will be when it comes out of the barrel.
@@garymiles484 Moving to Somerset, I found out how good they are the hard way. lol.....
Once went in a pub in Devon while on holiday after hearing people talking about ‘Devon rough’ ended up having three pints and lost seven hours of my life…
It’s very similar only weaker to one I have local to me called coppertop
These taste tests would be so different if Alanna wasn’t a happy drinker. I think most of us would be happy to spend a sunny summers afternoon in a pub beer garden drinking with Alanna. Great video.
Think she should try a taste of that cider named after that Victorian author, Dickens....
@@bexbissell4576 You are a bad man. Keep it clean.
LOL, marvellous! "Old Rosie" has been my favourite drink (by far) for 30 years. It is a bit 'niche' for many folks though.
It's been comedy gold watching a lovely young lady getting slightly squiffy on cider 😂
Thanks so much!
Thatcher's comedy gold, so to speak
Old Rosie (Westons) is one of the good ones although I'm going through a Sandfords orchards phase (Hangy Downs - definitely on the sweet side) at the moment - they also do a ginger flavoured cider which works really well.
Proper (traditional) cider comes without bubbles and with cloudiness.
@@AdventuresAndNaps my old man was in the Royal Navy ( 1943 - 46 ) and when they docked in port down south ( Portsmouth etc ) and went for a Cider ( always cloudy and loads of bits in it ) the landlords would only allow them one pint each because they wasn't used to it but the locals were allowed 3 ish pints , the only time they had 2 pints they understood the reason and that was they couldn't move their legs so had to wait 2hts before they could leave lol
Many's the time Old Rosie has left me in a very drunken mess.
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. 😁
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.
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
This is a hilarious episode. Not just broad grins here, bout outright laughter.
Thank you Alanna for a great episode. 😁❤️🙃
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
A nice cider, in the sunshine and fresh air, sat outside at the cricket club listening to the sound of leather on willow, cannot be beaten 👌
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I've never yelled at Alanna for using (or not using) her glasses. Find whatever brings you joy... then bring that joy straight to the internet.
Five out of five golden apples.
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Great episode Alanna. Hilarious to see the alcohol take hold. The most entertaining on UA-cam. Thanks for the Tuesday joy!
Thanks for watching!
Visited a farm that brews real Scrumpy, Farmer says "this'll put hairs on yuh chest", not perhaps an effect desired by most women. It was fearsome stuff but the Farmer's throwaway line about tossing a dead rat into the vat to aid fermentation I hope was a wind-up!
Tradition says a dead rat and an old leather boot! Old farmers wife tale?
No, you need to find a worm at the bottom. Best bought from a cider apple farmer in Somerset.
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 UA-cam 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?
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?!”
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.
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?
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.
I love your way of yours tests go, Your a proper drinker. congrats.
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!
Oh, the sacrifices you make for your viewers. Thanks for entertaining us while educating us!
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
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 😂
Great video, Alanna! I'm looking forward to a proper pub garden summer this year - let's hope the weather doesn't let us down!
Can't wait!
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
Back to my favourite type of videos from you, Alanna 😀😋 Your pronunciation of Herefordshire cracked me up 🤣 I like Old Rosie, although one is enough 😅 And it was 7.3% until 3 years ago.
Also Frome is pronounced like froom.
‘Hearfedsheer’…killed me😂😂😂😂🇬🇧👍
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
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've seen DOZENS of your videos and your alcohol taste testing ones are absolutely the very best! MORE MORE MORE!
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
Slarmied Alanna, belching and slurring her words, complaining to a passing truck, "I'm trying to be professional!' Classic, why we love you :-)
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.
Can imagine Alanna's calendar... Today is the day😂 ... Next up the snake bite mixture combos.
Looking back Alanna's rapid slide into alcoholism and homelessness started with her popular "Afternoon Drinking With Alanna" UA-cam 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 🙌🏾😂
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 ✌🏴🇨🇦🍻
This Christmas live stream, Alanna drinks a whole liter of Scrumpy Jack for our entertainment with hilarious consequences 🤣Are you down Napster, lol❓❓
I reckon she should play Edward Cider Hands where you duck tape a 2 litre bottle of Scrumpy to each hand and can't put them down until you've finished them.
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Thank you so much Alanna, makes me want to rush out and buy some ciders right now!
You should try Weston’s Vintage Perry, (made from pears), absolutely delicious, and deadly. It also goes brilliantly with a good curry.
Ooh I'll add it to the list!
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.
Roger Wilkins, if you know you know
Great video, much love from Somerset🙂
Loved it, I have to say I was worried when you sat down for the comparison between Thatchers and Scrumpy that the rest of the video would take place on the floor but well done for powering through😀 I don’t know if you can get it in Kent but Rocquette is quite a nice cider produced in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Oh and just in case you missed the outrage for not using glasses normally “ I am beyond furious that you decanted these into glasses!!😂
Yes about time Alanna get in Andy here just about to watch !!x
Weston’s Vintage wins everything. 8.2% of glory. Three bottles for a fiver. A very efficient session.
I totally agree.
The best of the best.
Smooth as silk.
My go to drink. Goes remarkably well with a good takeaway curry.
You are entirely correct T. Weston’s vintage has always been my favourite.
12 bottles for 15 quid at Costco :-)
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.
Always enjoy your videos alanna - you do make me laugh...
Anyway, if you ever go to Dorset,Devon or Cornwall then try a proper Freshly made scrumpy, it tastes beautiful and you can drink looaaads of it without getting a hangover - very good indeed.
Keep up the great videos 🤪
white lightning is popular with certain types of outdoor drinkers
Ideally, best sampled on a park bench!
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.
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!
Like deployed 👍
Maybe you can test hangover remedies tomorrow morning too Alanna!
“Without further ado, let’s go for the Alka Seltzer and Bacon Sandwich combo” 😂
Only one cure for a hangover. A large bottle of the soft drink that outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland. Irn Bru will sort you out nicely.
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Irn Bru just makes me more nauseous! 😂
You are a credit to us all Your dedication is remarkable
Really enjoyed watching the cider slowly take affect, love cider too, Aspall or Thatchers are my choices.
Draft Aspell's is the best. 🍺
@@suejones8508 I agree
I grew up in Somerset cider country and boy has she got a lot to learn . . . It'll be fun though
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
British cider, the superhero drink. Just a couple of pints and you turn into Captain Nonsense!
Only 6 minutes in and I'm already loving this. The fact that you've found a way to make day drinking "work".
I really like the tumbler you used for the Henry Western.
Ok... 'What were we doing here? Oh yeah, I was rating it!" I do hope you were feeling ok after doing this. But hey, you're clearly enjoying yourself!
That you can still read at this point, I think is somewhat impressive.
"Don't they know I'm filming? I'm trying to be a professional here! " *hic*
Great fun video. I hope you had a nice lie down after.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
You have got to love an A&N cider taste video, they start well and then the alcohol kicks in and they just get better including the added burps, so much fun indeed.
May I suggest a Naps trip to the West Country to do a taste test tour of the local scrumpy farms to try out there fare. it could get messy but would be great fun to do. Peanuts, come get your peanuts. 🥜🥜🥜😁
I'd love to!!
@@AdventuresAndNaps Go for it. 🙂
@@AdventuresAndNaps Herry fud shuh.
"Old brown Rosie. Rose of Alabamie. The sweetest apple posy is the rose of Alabama."
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.
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.
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.
Great burp. Well done for including it.
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 . ☺
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.
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.
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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That Old Rosie was non carbonated, try the carbonated ones you get in the 500ml bottles, it makes it better in my opinion.
Plus Scrumpy Jack is one of my fave cider of them all, I seriously cannot get enough of it.
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
At the risk of appearing to repeat myself, the way you express gratitude for your life is 👏 you should never lose that
Love this! Will have to taste test when I visit uk in May!! 🍎🍏
Ahh that's so exciting!!
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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Hi, I'm the priest who blessed that Thatcher's cider in our village orchard... Glad you liked it!
One of the funniest things on here for a while….getting gently pissed with a sizeable UA-cam audience …..class 👍
Thanks for watching!!
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!
Alanna, it was one of your videos made me try Thistly Cross. I now have to order several dozen bottles every month or so. My wife has taken to cooking gammon in Thistly Cross Ginger Cider - delicious!
Glad you liked it!!
Ahh, the spirit of Keith Floyd lives! :) Great to see you getting pished in the name of UA-cam. Although it could have done with some Tayto Smokey Bacon (don't worry, I ate those so you didn't have to) and you missed my favourite cider ... Healey's Rattler. Nothing better than sitiing at Land's End having a pint of rattler! Scrumpy Jack is my second fav though.
I work at the brewery behind Scrumpy Jack (based in Hereford) and admit that it is not a popular drink within the UK. Our recent big hitter which is pretty sweet is called Inch's. Check it out, it's lovely! Henry Westons is obviously much more authentic. They aren't owned by some large corporation. They are legit and the love goes into the drink, hence the great flavours! Make sure to try their other drinks too.
When I lived in Bristol in the 1990s I'd drink Thatchers Rough or Thatchers Smooth, rough was cheaper than the smooth.
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!
Born in Somerset and grandmother's family originally from Herefordshire, it's no wonder I like cider. Loved this video as you got happier and happier. Long ago, my favourite was Taunton Exhibition, which I believe is now only available at the Coronation Tap in Bristol. 'We' (I wasn't old enough) used to buy it by the flagon in Uphill. Happy days.
As a Kent resident you need to pick up some Biddendens! Kent cider you can buy it from macknades farm shop and randomly port Lympe Zoo. (100% recommend shit faced zoo days)
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.
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!
I really love ❤️ seeing Alanna get wasted or drunk on different ciders it’s hilarious and Great entertainment 😂
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!
'My drink problem is all behind me...on the sideboard! '
Oh lord, the chaos energy is high in this one! You deserve it after the sad meal deals though, treat yoself
You're gonna get people complaining about how you said Frome, but it's officially the hardest place in the UK to pronounce, nobody knows how to say it! If you haven't seen that Map Men video on British place names that's a big recommend, I bet you'd love it
Lilleys Gladiator , Dudda Tun (from your local Kent micro pub)
Rattlers, Thatchers Green Goblin and Thatchers Vintage are my favourites
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 UA-cam 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.
Thatchers gold made from concentrated apple and full off sugar 😋 try westons organic
High level alcohol cider diluted with a diet lemonade to extend the drinking and moderate the cost for those who don't have a good monetary income
6:51 "see me after class, Simpkins!"
What about Strongbow or Woodpecker?
I used to have a pint of half/half called Strongpecker.
I'm not kidding either......