Comments on: Wetherspoons International Festival http://www.ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html real cider and perry Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:53:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Fairhurst http://www.ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html#comment-3736 Richard Fairhurst Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:35:36 +0000 http://ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html#comment-3736 Oh, there's definitely a difference between the Conquest I had on Saturday, and the bag-in-a-box Bounds Brand I have at home: the Bounds Brand isn't served ridiculously cold... Oh, there’s definitely a difference between the Conquest I had on Saturday, and the bag-in-a-box Bounds Brand I have at home: the Bounds Brand isn’t served ridiculously cold…

]]> By: Mark Shirley http://www.ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html#comment-3735 Mark Shirley Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:50:52 +0000 http://ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html#comment-3735 I too was dissapointed with the cider offering, but let's not get too carried away with the CAMRA bashing. This was advertised as an 'International Real-Ale Festival' not a ',,,beer and cider festival' and I very much doubt whether CAMRA had any input or influence in the choice of ciders. Perhaps of more interest is the small print on the Westons Conquest Scrumpy pump-clip, which states that this is exlusive to Wetherspoons! Either this is a genuinely different cider to Bounds Brand (tasted like Bounds Brand to me), Westons/Wetherspoons are being a little conservative with the truth, or they simply mean that the pump-clip is exclusive to Wetherspoons! Either way I found the half of Conquest I had at the Cheltenham Wetherspoons to be the usual watery, slightly harsh tasting 'cider' I was glad I only had a half of. Thank heavens for the JJJ at the Jolly Brewmaster. I too was dissapointed with the cider offering, but let’s not get too carried away with the CAMRA bashing. This was advertised as an ‘International Real-Ale Festival’ not a ‘,,,beer and cider festival’ and I very much doubt whether CAMRA had any input or influence in the choice of ciders.

Perhaps of more interest is the small print on the Westons Conquest Scrumpy pump-clip, which states that this is exlusive to Wetherspoons! Either this is a genuinely different cider to Bounds Brand (tasted like Bounds Brand to me), Westons/Wetherspoons are being a little conservative with the truth, or they simply mean that the pump-clip is exclusive to Wetherspoons! Either way I found the half of Conquest I had at the Cheltenham Wetherspoons to be the usual watery, slightly harsh tasting ‘cider’ I was glad I only had a half of. Thank heavens for the JJJ at the Jolly Brewmaster.

]]> By: Richard Fairhurst http://www.ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html#comment-3733 Richard Fairhurst Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:42:47 +0000 http://ukcider.co.uk/blog/camra/wetherspoons-international-festival.html#comment-3733 Yes, we found the same in the Exchange in Banbury on Saturday - more Krapparberg and the Conquest replacing the Old Rosie. I do appreciate a weaker real cider sometimes, though - it's good to be able to have a pint with a meal in the middle of the day without getting completely blotto! Yes, we found the same in the Exchange in Banbury on Saturday – more Krapparberg and the Conquest replacing the Old Rosie.

I do appreciate a weaker real cider sometimes, though – it’s good to be able to have a pint with a meal in the middle of the day without getting completely blotto!

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