westons is awesome cider!

old rosie is a persona fave

Sparks is the most awful thing everrrrrrrr. Makes you feel awful. Colors your tongue orange. Gives you that weird uppers/downers mixed signals stuff. Makes your body hate you.

Give me a cowboy coffee with a shot of bourbon or whiskey, anyday.

Yeah, Sparks is bullshit.

That sparks stuff looks like it has bad news written all over it.
I'll be staying well away!

Must say tho, as much as I like cider, I think i'll spend the majority of time trying the various types of beer that I don't have here.

Yeah those Sparks drinks are also really bad for you health-wise if anyone cares about that. In fact most of those flavored malt/girl drinks that are made to taste like soda are pretty bad for you, i.e. smirnoff ice, sparks, mikes hard lemonade etc. I mean beer isn't exactly liquid salad but drinking a Sparks is like eating someones half-digested regurgitated big mac

We call them alcopops over here and I think everyone I've ever tried has given me bad stomach pains after a couple of bottles probably due to the amount of colourings/sugar in them.

Mike's hard lemonade is a hilarious name though so I might have to try it. I can see kids in the UK buying that stuff for the name alone!

That it did haha, though I swear it was like poison

first time i drank sparks i had about 4 or 5
i could feel my heart pounding through my chest

i have often purchased samuel smith's organic cider at gator beverage

Oh man - If they've got Sam Smiths organic over there that's great news. I'm lucky enough that my local, well sort of (well it's where I do all my drinking) is a Sam Smiths pub. They only have two in Wales!!

I thought you might pop up on this thread. It was you that started the cider thread last year wasn't it? Have we ever met? We obviously have a lot in common!

We've got a Sam Smiths pub near us, just outside of Hull in Beveley. Amazing cider and beer and well cheap also.
It rocks hard.

Think it was me that started the thread last year and spent all Sunday in Common Grounds drinking PBR not realising they had Strongbow!! Won't make the same mistake this year!!

If you're Matt and Simon's (From Cambridge) mate then we met at ABA's Stupids gig. I was probably a bit pished!!

Andy

went to bishops tavern last night
no strongbow or pbr! avoid like the plague!!!

although the bartender was cute

i'm glad strongbow we be available still, though those small glass bottles suck. i mean do they sell big bottles like these anywhere...


the sight of that just makes me wanna get drunk

up the cider punks!