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Bulmers Pear

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  • 07-07-2009 12:14am
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    Peadar06
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    Hi,

    There might be a thread already about, but do people think of this stuff???

    Peter

    P.S. Mods please move if there is a thread already
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    yoyo
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    Its apparently the biggest laxative known to man judging by the After Hours thread :)

    Nick

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    Mimikyu
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    Ponster
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    The 212 reply AH thread.


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    x PyRo
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    It's quite nice imo. Not as nice as the Apple but it's grand. The adverts are priceless !.

    Some laxative too from what i've heard... Never drank enough of it to find out thank God!.


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    Carawaystick
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    I had a can about 2 weeks ago, it was grand I thought then, not to Pear flavoured, unlike Koppaberg, which is really Peary.

    Then I had a large bottle last Saturday and I had to buy some lager after it so's I'd be drinking something with any flavour....


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    Gautama
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    Carawaystick wrote: »
    I had a can about 2 weeks ago, it was grand I thought then, not to Pear flavoured, unlike Koppaberg, which is really Peary.

    Then I had a large bottle last Saturday and I had to buy some lager after it so's I'd be drinking something with any flavour....

    Koppaberg is an alcopop. The pear flavour is artificial therefore it "is really Peary" and tastes rank.

    Bulmers Pear is great.


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    BeerNut
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    Gautama wrote: »
    Bulmers Pear is great.
    But probably an alcopop too. I'm pretty sure "pear cider" cannot legally exist.

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    Gautama
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    But probably an alcopop too. I'm pretty sure "pear cider" cannot legally exist.

    I think Bulmers Pear contains pear juice.

    "Pear cider" is perry, but the latter term would not be recognised by or familiar to most drinkers, and hence they'd never try it (apart from Ritz drinkers of the 1980ies).

    Ireland is not an alcohol drinking country really. More of a beer drinking country.


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    BeerNut
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    Gautama wrote: »
    I think Bulmers Pear contains pear juice.

    "Pear cider" is perry, but the latter term would not be recognised by or familiar to most drinkers, and hence they'd never try it (apart from Ritz drinkers of the 1980ies).
    I don't think that's it. I think if it was legally a perry, they'd call it a perry. Bulmer's apple isn't legally a cider either, incidentally. Both contain added sugar, while legally (and I wish I could find the SI as I'm sounding like a barroom lawyer here) cider is fermented apple juice with nothing added while perry is fermented pear juice with nothing added.

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    Jev/N
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    According to Oz Clarke & James May in their Drink to Britain series:

    pear cider = pear flavoured apple cider

    perry = cider made from specific perry pears only

    As already mentioned, both Bulmers and Kopparberg aren't strictly ciders so the point is moot!


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    Quint
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    I don't think that's it. I think if it was legally a perry, they'd call it a perry. Bulmer's apple isn't legally a cider either, incidentally. Both contain added sugar, while legally (and I wish I could find the SI as I'm sounding like a barroom lawyer here) cider is fermented apple juice with nothing added while perry is fermented pear juice with nothing added.

    If bulmers can't legally be called cider, i'm sure some competitor would bring them to court over it. It would be a disaster for bulmers. And with their rip off prices, I'd have a great laugh in the process.


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    BeerNut
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    Quint wrote: »
    If bulmers can't legally be called cider
    I never said that. What something is called and what something is are different questions.
    Quint wrote: »
    i'm sure some competitor would bring them to court over it.
    I'm not. The law which defines cider does so for excise purposes and is a matter for no-one but the producer and the Revenue.

    Labelling is a matter for the Food Safety Authority, and while they could make a fuss over this kind of thing it's not a priority.

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