Comparing this stuff to trampagne like White Lightning is a bit like comparing a cabbage with a football. Ignorant of cider as I am, i'm certainly better informed than desperate wine bore Malcolm Gluck, who's moaning about British cider over at The Guardian like he did about beer in february 2009. He got his not-inconsiderable fundament handed to him back then and no doubt it'll happen this time too. And I still don't buy The Guardian.
(I haven't any pictures of cider. Hopefully Evans' greengrocers will do. They sell apples, and they're in Devon).
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In many ways, cider has a better claim to being a traditional drink than beer and wine: an apple drops, a peasant tosses it into a barrel with a rat, it ferments, he squeezes the solids, he has cider. I have drunk cider in Normandy, apple wine in Frankfurt, and scrumpy in the West Country: it's delicious and goes well with a proper ploughman's lunch.
Quite why that dopey tw@t Darling should slam a load of tax on it, I'm not sure. What about taxing all French wines over 5 years old? The Banker-Stockbroker ponces who drink that can WELL afford it!
He should have stuck the extra duty on alcopops. I bet the police don't have much trouble from anybody who's spent the night knocking back the apples at the Black Horse in Clapton-in-Gordano.
TIW - I'm sure I read somewhere that he is increasing the tax on alcopops. Or did I imagine that?
i'm still bitter about the guardian. it should be mine. ours. and it's rotten
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Tandleman - I hope so.
And if the cider duty hike is just aimed at the super-strength type, how do they differentiate the park bench stuff from the 'good' stuff, a lot of which could be classed as super-strength?
Ally - it's not the paper it was :-(
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