The Famous Five were in a terrible fix. Those dirty rotten working class kids had stolen their ginger beer and crab paste sandwiches." Bother, bother bother" said Dick "how are we going to have a wizard adventure now. Mr Cooper the light house keeper will not let us on Kirran Island without ... Read review
Advantages: nice balance of ginger and lemon Disadvantages: slightly dear, not availble everywhere
The Famous Five were in a terrible fix. Those dirty rotten working class kids had stolen their ginger beer and crab paste sandwiches." Bother, bother bother" said Dick "how are we going to have a wizard adventure now. Mr Cooper the light house keeper will not let us on Kirran Island without the mandatory payment of a ginger beer bottle each". "What about we go to that new flanged place called Tescos said Julian being very ... ...sure we can find some delectable refreshment to replace Aunt Fanny's wonderful ginger beer". So the five strolled to Tescos and had to leave Timmy behind as he was not a trained guide dog and found the soft drinks cabinet. "Golly gosh said George "look at this lovely scrumptious sounding lemonade Fentimann's' Traditional Victorian Lemonade". "MMMM lashings and lashings of lemonade but it's not a shilling tuppence. It's £1.09 ... more
The Famous Five were in a terrible fix. Those dirty rotten working class kids had stolen their ginger beer and crab paste sandwiches." Bother, bother bother" said Dick "how are we going to have a wizard adventure now. Mr Cooper the light house keeper will not let us on Kirran Island without the mandatory payment of a ginger beer bottle each". "What about we go to that new flanged place called Tescos said Julian being very sensible as he was the oldest and wisest. "I am sure we can find some delectable refreshment to replace Aunt Fanny's wonderful ginger beer". So the five strolled to Tescos and had to leave Timmy behind as he was not a trained guide dog and found the soft drinks cabinet. "Golly gosh said George "look at this lovely scrumptious sounding lemonade Fentimann's' Traditional Victorian Lemonade". "MMMM lashings and lashings of lemonade but it's not a shilling tuppence. It's £1.09 for a 275ml bottle in new money" wailed Anne. "Don't be such a baby" said Dick as he naughtily kicked his sister.. "Aunt Fanny gave us some money from our reward for finding the missing heiress in the castle ruins so we have more than enough for a splendid feast".
The four paid for their purchases and skipped merrily on their way. They unpacked their picnic by a glorious stream , which would be ideal for paddling in llater and sat down to drink their lovely lemonade. "It's a rather splendid bottle' isn't it" said Anne. "Oh look the dog on the bottle neck label looks just like Timmy" she squealed. "Julian pass me your Swiss Army Knife Uncle Quintin gave you for Christmas, so we can open this delightful looking stuff!" . The four took a deep sniff at the pale greeny yellow cloudy liquid. "Lemons" declared George "but maybe not as zesty and natural smelling as some of the other lemonades we have had before". "Is that ginger I can smell" exclaimed Dick "Hurrah for that. I will not miss out on my ginger fix after all" he said very excitedly. Well it is a traditionally brewed lemonade made with sugar, carbonated water 12% lemon concentrates rather than freshly squeezed lemons, ginger pear juice for some reason juniper and some yucky stuff called glucose syrup!" said Julian examine the label. I'm sure Aunt Fanny just makes hers with lemons, water and sugar
The children poured the contents of one of the bottles into Timmy's bowl so he would not feel left out as he is almost human after all, then sat back to enjoy their luscious drink. "Don't you think lemon and ginger is the best combination in the world ever, even better than strawberries and cream" wondered George as she sipped her cold drink. It was a lovely gently fizzing drink not too gassy like the American Coca Cola her American School friend Zelda had in her tuck box. At first the lemon was very sharp and tangy. It tasted like the Jiff that her mother put on pancakes but then the ginger taste kicked in counterbalancing the sourness of the lemon. "It's heavenly" declared Anne. It tastes so refreshing and is a scrumptious nix of sharp lemon and our wonderful ginger beer". "This is great for us heroic children but I bet Uncle Quintin and Aunt Fanny would love this. It's a real grown up drink. Perhaps they might stock it in the Kirran Arms for Pott's the chauffeur if he does not want half a shandy!". "I can't wait to try their dandelion and burdock and Curiosity Cola next "said Julian . Altogether now three cheers for Fentimann's botanically;y brewed Traditional Victorian lemonade. Hip Hip Hooray 9woof woof added Timmy in agreement)
Advantages: Made with traditional ingredients Disadvantages: Bit of an "acquired taste"
Fentimans is a drinks manufacturer based in Newcastle, England which specialises in "botanically brewed" softdrinks, and are most famous for their ginger beer, which is regarded as THE best in the world (and which I've reviewed elsewhere on CIAO).
Like the rest of their drinks range, this comes in a traditional style 275ml "beer bottle" (clear glass, this time), with a metal cap. It suggests that to open it (after shaking) that you twist it off, ... ...bottle cap opener instead if you don't like pain inflicted upon your fingers.
After several weeks since trying it, and not currently having a bottle available to read the ingredients in order to complete this review, I've finally came up with something to compare it with taste-wise.
It tastes EXACTLY like that JIF LEMON stuff you get to put on pancakes or fish..... I think I prefer Schweppes Lemonade or 7UP better, to be honest..... but I guess ...
duck1979 17.08.2007 (07.03.2007)
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Fentiman's have a website, although I did find it incredibly difficult to read:
www.fentimans.com
If you want to ask any questions they suggest you E-mail them
info@fentimans.com
Fentiman's Ltd
90 Grey street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6AG
Tel: 01434 609847
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THE FENTIMANS RANGE
I am a great fan of the Fentimans range of drinks
(they also make ginger beer, curiosity cola and victorianlemonade). The orange jigger is my second favourite,
after ginger beer.
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I've seen the Fentiman's drinks on sale from 99p -£1.25
for a bottle. They are available from many supermarkets
(definitely Safeways and Sainsburys) and are increasingly
seen in bars and local shops. A pound for a soft
drink may seem a lot but this range tastes far
nice and more sophisticated than a can of cola!
PACKAGING
The glass bottle comes with a screw cap, so no bottle
opener required! The bottles are easy to recognise
as they all have the same style with and oval label
and the Fentimans logo of a dog on the neck of the
bottle. A glass bottle could be a little heavy to
lug around ...