what are you drinking tonight?

[lazarus]

Ain't no such animal as pear cider, whatever it says on the bottle!

Cider is a drink made from apples - if it's made from pears it's perry. They just call it pear cider to take advantage of the current popularity of cider!

~pedantic mode off~

Absolutely right BG.

Ever been round the cider museum in Gloucester? Fascinating the story of champagne perry which was foir decades the drink of celebration for weddings etc in preference to champagne itself. Killed off by the French and the EU when the froggies went fo protection on the word champagne.

[BikerGran]

What a strange place for a cider museum! - Herefordshire is the county of cider (whatever they say in Somerset). I used to work on a farm where we had a cider press in the barn.

And before that with the Young Farmers Club in Worcestershire we used to inhabit an 'alehouse' called The Mill as they had a cider press or mill and made the roughest of rough cider - so rough and sour in fact the only way some of us could drink it was with a dash of orange squash. The place was an alehouse because it only had a licence to sell 'ales, beers and cider'. I never did find out the difference between ales and beers.