http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: cider question - Recent Posts en Thu, 21 May 2026 07:44:54 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22638 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:22:21 +0000 kaputnik 22638@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks PS. Will check that out, I've got quite a taste for the Normandy stuff too. Much nicer than the 2l of scrumpy I've got to get through to get my jug! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22636 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:45:55 +0000 PS 22636@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of no help in your flaggon search (although in the past I've bought such stuff in Waitrose and Cornelius [a one-off Christmas special I think]), but hopefully useful info if you like your cidre normandie:</p> <p>The epicerie downstairs at L'Escargot Bleu on Broughton Street stocks some superb Normandy cider in 75cl bottles. Both brut and doux. </p> <p>Make sure it's well chilled when you come to open it though. I opened one bottle that had only been in the fridge for an hour or so and still have a cork mark on the kitchen ceiling to show for it. Lucky I wasn't leaning over the bottle at the time... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22582 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:59:17 +0000 kaputnik 22582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On that bike - room for 2 inner tubes, some micro tyre levers and a multitool :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22580 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:32:25 +0000 Kim 22580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Depends on what sort of a rack you have... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22574 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:05:18 +0000 kaputnik 22574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Isn't much room on the back of the road bike for 5l of cider! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22571 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:36:37 +0000 Kim 22571@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You should have been at the Farmers Market this morning... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22570 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:05:04 +0000 kaputnik 22570@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jug-pot hit at Morrisons at Ferry Road. Very good range of home-grown ciders. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22563 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:27:04 +0000 kaputnik 22563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I wish I had spent more time cycling and less time drinking beer.</em></p> <p>Yes we both agreed the same. Never said anything about cider though ;&gt;</p> <p>Thanks for the lead, I'll add it to my list. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22543 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:16:46 +0000 gembo 22543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You get a good range of Normandy cidres in Appellation Wines of Dalry Road (just up from Haymarket), run by Ashton McCobb. Good but dear.</p> <p>Hank Williams sang in his great number Lost Highway</p> <p>Just of deck of cards<br /> and a jug of wine<br /> for a life of sin<br /> I have paid the price</p> <p>So Kaputnik, watch yourself in that jug band. As I may have mentioned to you on The Whang in retrospect I wish I had spent more time cycling and less time drinking beer. The only time I have ever had cider was waiting at the ferry terminal in Roscoff with a group of Royal Marines I found myself camping with. They had good kit, I had Winfield Sleeping Bag from Woolworths. No tents. THey could drink many many bottles of Normandy cidre before an 8 hour sea crossing of some degree of choppiness. I couldn't. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22534 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:33:01 +0000 kaputnik 22534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ah, no I meant Jacques the bottle shop in Stockbridge! It does some good propery Normandy cidres, even if they are only 2%, they come in wine-bottle portions :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22532 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:14:27 +0000 ruggtomcat 22532@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jaques is actually Strongbow by another name... funny how they play both sides :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22531 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:59:03 +0000 kaputnik 22531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks chaps. I like the Waitrose own-label stuff, very agreeable and the Normandy stuff from Jacques is also very nice. Afraid I've sampled the Westons range and it didn't agree with my palate, specifically looking for some flagons (some half-cut agreement with a friend about trying to form a jug band!) so I'll check out a Morrisons or if not the bottle shops down in Stockbrig. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22530 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:51:35 +0000 SRD 22530@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Farmer's market tomorrow am sometimes has a stall selling cider. Realfoods also, but pricey. Scotmid often has decent cider too - Westons etc. Waitrose has best range I have seen. I don't recall ever seeing cider at Cornelius. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22528 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:30:45 +0000 ruggtomcat 22528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Morrisons used too, as did peckhams. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22524 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:45:47 +0000 wingpig 22524@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No certainty, but I'd suspect both Villeneuve and Cornelius over V&amp;C or Peckhams now that there's no fancy food shop down Raeburn Place... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2137#post-22522 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:02:16 +0000 kaputnik 22522@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...where one might get their hands on some good cider or scrumpy in Edinburgh (bonus points if it's in a flagon bottle) </p>