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Saturday, October 30, 2004

Cripple Cock

Cripple Cock farmyard scrumpy cider"Have your crutches handy, this be a toe curler"

That's the slogan on the label of Cripple Cock farmyard scrumpy cider. Everywhere I go people just seem to be giving me bottles of scrumpy cider and this was the latest donation.

Cripple Cock is a traditional farm scrumpy cider from North Somerset. At 7.5% it's your usual strong cider, slightly sparkling and quite a deep colour. It has the usual real English cider apple taste though it was a little on the sweet side for me; I do prefer a dry cider and usually an unsweetened one like Mr Whitehead's "Heart of Hampshire".

However, this is a good cider and one that's guaranteed to go down well if you like the slightly sweeter aftertaste. Right, now which supermarket sold the "priemier cru" ?

4 Comments:

  • At Sun Oct 31, 03:32:00 PM, Blogger Colleen said…

    Sounds perfect to me! I don't think we have it here in Canada though. :(

     
  • At Sun Oct 31, 04:15:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    LOL - Yeah, K, my Canadian client enjoys Dry Blackthorn cider, one of our biggest UK cider brands. They said they were having difficulty finding Blackthorn so I might just ship them out a case. Cider does seem to be a very English thing...

     
  • At Mon Nov 01, 12:21:00 AM, Blogger Colleen said…

    Well I might just have to pay you to ship some out to me! :D

     
  • At Mon Nov 01, 09:02:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    You're most welcome. Anything you need from good 'ole England you just let me know :)

     

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