Dry Cider - Kingstone press

Drink name                       Drink makers                       Drink type                Drink strength
Cider?                                Kingstone Press                  Dry cider                  5.3%

I've had kingstones ciders before and I wasn't impressed but I refuse to let that effect my judgement.

On opening this cider smells good. It's bubbly which I guess is good for this sort of cider.

The taste...
Well it's a dry cider and I don't feel let down on that but like the other Kingstone press cider I have tried it has a honey like taste in there too.
They are consistent in their flavour but this ain't for me. Makes my teeth feel funny.

It'll do for cooking though I bet!


tasty rating
Good as a drink 05/10 Good as a Cider etc 07/10
Can't put down factor 05/10 Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 5/10
Average = 54ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
Who'd a' guessed

Blue Moon - wheat beer

Drink name                       Drink makers                       Drink type                Drink strength
Blue Moon                        blue moon brewing co         wheat beer                5.4%


I first tried this beer in Bristol whilst out for a meal with some friends and was mildly vexed when I got back to the north and couldn't find anywhere that sold it. Now however I've found it... in a little bottle but at least it's in the shops.

This is an un-filtered wheat beer. It says on the bottle brewed and spiced in the Belgian tradition but I don't know how true that is.

The stuff looks it's a bad urine sample and that's good in this situation.

the drink has a pleasant smell that I can only assume is wheat and the taste is better and sweet. It's a bit zesty but in a nice way and has a nice, constant favour.
I find my self wanting to say smooth but that's not right.

tasty rating
Good as a drink 08/10 Good as a beer etc 09/10
Can't put down factor 09/10 Good at getting you drunk 6/10
Bottle art 9/10
Average = 82ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
I don't trust numbers.

 Drink link

  www.bluemoonbrewingcompany.co.uk

Ben & Jerrys treat

 I love Ben & Jerry's half backed with some toffee treat on it. Thankfully the ice cream is quite over priced in my opinion so I only get it when it is in a half price sale.

It's also really bad for you due to being made with real cream and having no air bubbles forced into it in the creating process.

I just wish they did a half baked core.

Rekorderlig Berries Cider

Drink name                       Drink makers                       Drink type                Drink strength
                     Rekorderlig Premium wild berries Cider                                   4% 

What the heck is this thing called? I'm sick of not being sure exactly what a drinks name is. It's happening more and more often!
...Arrr stuff it. Who cares.

I'll be honest with you here. I like this stuff but my gut hates it. It gives me indigestion and that sucks because it does taste nice.

It smells fruity, it tastes fruity. It's good...

Except for the point where I end up 15 minuets after starting drinking it rolling around on the floor in agony thinking "If this doesn't stop soon I hope I die!" I drank this in a club once and thought I was having a heart attack!
It's the same with Brothers and Gaymers. Dam there tasty little arses.




tasty rating
Good as a drink 07/10 Good as a Cider etc 07/10
Can't put down factor 07/10 Good at getting you drunk 4/10
Bottle art 6/10
Average = 62ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
I'm not even sure how I came up with that number.

The Sutton Arms - Pub & Restaurant - Stockton-on-Tees

I stopped off at the Sutton Arms today for Lunch. It's a pub in Elton (On a map it seems to be almost on the middle point between Middlesbrough and Darlington).

Even on a rainy day like this the place looks nice. The area quiet. I almost his a wide variety of birds on the way there and they didn't even appear fussed in the slightest.

The Sutton Arms has a good menu with a lot of different foods to choose from. Theres something for just about every pallet.

The lunch lunch time specials are a little more limited but for just under £5 you can't go wrong.

I went for Chicken and Yorkshire pudding which came with gravy mash and a roasty for some reason. Maybe the roast potato was meant to be there maybe it wasn't. If it was trying to escape though it failed. The meal also came with some cooked veg comprising of carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage.

Now I like my Veg firm and they didn't disappoint. The Yorkshire pudding was crispy and the chicken was moist.

The meal was fantastic. All of it tasting great.
If I was to make one negative comment it would be that the gravy was not as think as I like it but that's a miner thing (I like my gravy so thick it has trouble poring).

The interior doesn't disappoint ether. The place is as quirky as  they come with some of the most unusual collections of things for you to spend time inspecting.

If you get the chance please go. It really is a lovely place.

Restaurant link

http://suttonarms.weebly.com/

Pie

I bought some rabbit a few weeks ago and it's been sitting in my fridge ever since.
I wasn't sure what to do with it at first but I've had an idea.
I'll make a rabbit pie. Never done one before so it should be fun.

Hears an interesting fact, if you are interested in facts that is ...  Did you know that if you ate nothing but rabbit, and by that I mean absolutely nothing but, you would die of malnutrition? (Yes I got that fact from QI)

Anyway I found My recipe. Here it is in picture form with a link. Gotta love the BBC recipe section.

Recipe link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rabbitpie_89204

Scrumpy Cloudy Cider

Drink name                       Drink makers                       Drink type                Drink strength

Scrumpy                            Westons                               cloudy cider              7.5%   2 litre

If you want to feel like a real hillbilly country bumpkin wurzels fan and yet don't want, for some reason, to drink out of a jar then this may just be the drink for you!
Westons does some good Cider I think. I know that their Old Rosie Cloudy Cider is good at any rate as I've blogged that already.

My first problem with this drink is that the bottle is massive! I just don't think I have the self control not to drink this thing. The second is that the horse on the bottle art looks unhappy and knackered. If it wasn't painted I'd be calling the R.S.P.C.A on their asses.

On opening however all worries about badly treated fictitious horses melt away as the smell of a drink made with real apples hits you.

It tastes like a good strong cider too. Acidic? Yes, a bit but mainly like apples. This cider is dry which means that in my eyes it's not perfect but if you love dry you'll probably love this.
I like a nice strong oak barrel taste and that is missing here or at least to my over worked taste buds.

I'm still liking it though and am having trouble not sipping this off apple juice right now... At least this is going to last me a while being 2 litres.

I also feel that if I were to chuck it at someone on a hot August day that the someone would quickly be carried of by wasps and Incorporated into their hive as a cafeteria which is the sign of any good fruit based drink.





tasty rating
Good as a drink 07/10 Good as a Cider etc 09/10
Can't put down factor 08/10 Good at getting you drunk 8/10
Bottle art 8/10
Average = 80ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
It's all just guess work really on my account.