bulmers pear

alie

My poor husband had 2 bottles of this and was in the loo for four hours, he was so ill , it certainly does not agree with everyone!

malene

I notice the TV ads are back to bulmers apple/regular. Is the pear brand being scaled down or withdrawn?

Jimmyboss

I had 4 pint bottles the other week.........suddenly had to rush to the jacks......major flatulence......for the next hour I had to 'go' about 5 times, until I had a couple of pints of Guinness and then the old tum-tum settled down.
I heard since that it's going to be withdrawn....pity, I liked it:D

jayteecork

Hammiepeters wrote: »

Is it Perry? Ritz was a Perry drink of the eighties. Don't know if thats still around. Used to get a mention in budgets regarding taxation as "cider and Perry".

some lady was drinking Ritz in the pub yesterday. With a glass with ice of course.
Honestly didn't think people still drank that urine.

artanevilla

We stock Ritz, we don't stock Bulmers Pear.

rubadub

bridigo wrote: »

http://www.bulmers.ie/about-us/pear-faqs.asp
made from 100% Pear Juice

As said earlier (wayyy earlier I know) it could be made with very little pear juice and the rest sugar, water, preservatives and artificial flavours, and it is still techinically 100% pear juice, as in no other fruit.

bridigo wrote: »

Is a pear cider, not a perry.

Same thing really, depending on your definition, I would not class any bulmers as real cider.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry#Pear_cider

"Pear cider" has in recent years been used as an alternative name to perry.[14] According to the BBC, the term was first used when Brothers was sold at Glastonbury Festival in 1995: nobody understood what perry was and were told that it was "like cider, but made from pears".

The use of the term "pear cider", instead of perry, has given a new commercial lease of life to a drink that was practically extinct; in two years sales of the drink increased from 3.4 million pounds to 46 million pounds. The brewers Brothers, Gaymers and Bulmers/Magners now all have their own brands of pear cider, and Tesco is also increasing the number of pear ciders that it sells.[12] The brewers see the term "pear cider" as being more understandable to the younger 18-34 demographic, and as differentiating their products from previous brands associated with the word perry, such as Babycham and Lambrini which are either associated with the female market or have fallen out of fashion.[14]

CAMRA defines perry and pear cider as quite different drinks, stating that "pear cider" as made by the large industrial cidermakers is merely a pear-flavoured drink, or more specifically a cider-style drink flavoured with pear concentrate, whereas "perry" should be made by traditional methods from perry pears only.[15] (It should be noted that Brothers, Bulmers and other pear ciders are made from pear concentrate, often imported.) Others, including the National Association of Cider Makers, on the other hand, insist that the terms perry and pear cider are interchangeable.[16] Its own rules specify that perry or pear cider may contain no more than 25% apple juice.[

This is interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider#Definition_of_.22real.22_cider

CAMRA defines "real" cider as a product containing at least 90% fresh apple juice, with no added flavourings or colourings. CAMRA appears to endorse chaptalisation of the juice (added sugar prior to fermentation) plus dilution with water afterwards.[37] UKCider defines "real" cider as a product containing at least 85% fresh apple juice, with no artificial flavourings or colourings. UKCider campaigns for the percentage juice content to be listed as part of a full ingredients labelling.[38] In contrast, UK law defines cider as containing at least 35% apple or pear juice, which may be from concentrate.

BeerNut

I have a lot more sympathy with CAMRA's distinction between real and non-real cider than real and non-real ale. The likes of Bulmers really are no different from alcopops. To find an equivalent in the beer world you'd be looking at Desperados or Crabbies: products that don't resemble beer at all.