Bulmers Scrumpy Jack Cider

Being a teenager/student, the world of alcohol becomes a wonderful place. But its not all about getting nicely toasted. My tipple of choice for a mealtime, or an afternoon in the sun, or just simply to kick back - is Symonds Scrumpy Jack. The very name - a great selling point for the product - evokes visions of rustic cider mills, woods, old wells, and other such old english hoohah. Apparently first brewed in 1727, this is proper scrumpy - farmhouse cider. Unfortunately, that is not strictly true - scrumpy jack is of course mass produced like any other mainstream cider. But certainly, the ... more

OI LOIKS COIDERR!!! The above sentence, is my best literary attempt at writing the sentence "I LIKE CIDER." in a English country accent. It is not intended to insult anyone, or to extract the michael out of anyone who resides in any of the major cider making areas of England. It simply expresses, in words, the type of mental image I get when I drink a good cider. You see, these cider-supping countryfolk, or wurzels, as I believe they are known, have things all worked out. Here we are, drinking beer or lager without ever fully quenching our thirst, and there they are still able to wear a sack ... more

I've recently started choosing cider as my take-home tipple from the supermarket, as a change from the beer and the lager. And Scrumpy Jack's the one I've been going for. It's made by Symonds, whose Cider Mill, in Hereford, has been producing cider since 1727 - and they claim to be the oldest cider making firm in England. Scrumpy Jack itself was first made in the 1960's. There's a very good website - www.scumpyjack.com - where we are told that Scrumpy jack is "the No.1 brand" - and it certainly seems to have become very widely available in recent years. The drink = It's made using many ... more

Cider is traditionally the tipple of preference in the south west. To most of us who have spent some time in that corner of the world, 'Scrumpy' means unfeasibly strong booze in which the mushy floaty thing might be a rat. It would be fair to say that the same is not true of this supermarket thing calling itself scrumpy, but for those of you who have yet to embrace your inner Wurzel, its a good tipple. I've thus far only found Scrumpy Jack for sale in small glass bottles - usually in multipacks and for sensible sums of money I might add. (There was a load on BOGOF a while back, I stocked up ... more

Ciao is all about forming opinions, right? Let me tell you the opinion you'd form about me and my drinking habbits if you saw me going into a pub. 22 years old, 6'0", cropped hair, 16st rugby player... are you getting the suggestion of lager-lout? Well how wrong can you be, I never touch the stuff. Cider and Guinness (Review on the black stuff coming soon) are my tipples, and I'm not scared to admit it either, mind you I'm not scared of much being the size I am. The first time I ever tried cider I was 18 years old and on a lads holiday down in Weymouth (Dorset) with a few mates. We'd been ... more