One should only use “cooking ciders” to make Snakebite. The likes of Strongbow, Taunton, Woodpecker, and indeed Magners as depicted above.
27 November 2016
warden hodges
Also first hangover 30 years ago. Id never drink lager and cider together again.
27 November 2016
Peter mcornotholgist
Go on Hodges.Hair of the dog.?
27 November 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Snakebite famously hit the headlines in 2001, when former US President Bill Clinton was refused the drink at a North Yorkshire pub. Licensee Jamie Allen mistakenly advised that it was “illegal to serve” it in the UK. Many bars refuse to serve the drink because of its cosmetic appearance and association with rowdy drunkenness.
27 November 2016
Paul the newt
@HT Is that the drink or the US President that has a dodgy reputation for appearance and rowdy behaviour? Just asking in case the President Elect pops into my local and asks for a Snakebite. The landlord doesn’t want to cause a diplomatic incident.
27 November 2016
Mr. Abelazar Woozle
There’s a particularly head-wrecking variety of snakebite I recall through very, very blurred memories that was known as Executioner – Theakstons Old Peculier and Merrydown. A few of them and you needed someone to hold the gutter steady so you could crawl in it!
27 November 2016
warden hodges
Re- McO. Oh go on then! I’ll mix it ever so carefully but I’m not dancing to Belouis Some in my stripe shirt and slip on shoes!
28 November 2016
Pirx the purist
Ah, memories! The Walnut Tree pub, Rhosddu Road, Wrexham. May 1980. The only time I ever drank in a pub when under age (if only by a fortnight). One part Dry Blackthorn to one part Carling Black Label, if I recall correctly. Two of those and I nearly got flattened crossing Grosvenor Road…
24 March 2019
BOBBY SVARC
I can remember when snakebite was banned from all Bass houses in the eighties.
25 March 2019
Brumbiscuit
Once mixed Tennents Super lager with Westons Vintage – both >8%ABV and it coagulated in a lump of brown sludge. Took some effort to get that down.
25 March 2019
JUST MARK
There used to be a Bass pub near me called The Drum – the sign outside was arranged as Bass Drum. And it was a circular building – round bar, nightmare!
Bobby svarc
Also, nickname of tungsten tosser Peter Wright.
27 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
One should only use “cooking ciders” to make Snakebite. The likes of Strongbow, Taunton, Woodpecker, and indeed Magners as depicted above.
27 November 2016
warden hodges
Also first hangover 30 years ago.
Id never drink lager and cider together again.
27 November 2016
Peter mcornotholgist
Go on Hodges.Hair of the dog.?
27 November 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Snakebite famously hit the headlines in 2001, when former US President Bill Clinton was refused the drink at a North Yorkshire pub. Licensee Jamie Allen mistakenly advised that it was “illegal to serve” it in the UK.
Many bars refuse to serve the drink because of its cosmetic appearance and association with rowdy drunkenness.
27 November 2016
Paul the newt
@HT Is that the drink or the US President that has a dodgy reputation for appearance and rowdy behaviour? Just asking in case the President Elect pops into my local and asks for a Snakebite. The landlord doesn’t want to cause a diplomatic incident.
27 November 2016
Mr. Abelazar Woozle
There’s a particularly head-wrecking variety of snakebite I recall through very, very blurred memories that was known as Executioner – Theakstons Old Peculier and Merrydown. A few of them and you needed someone to hold the gutter steady so you could crawl in it!
27 November 2016
warden hodges
Re- McO. Oh go on then! I’ll mix it ever so carefully but I’m not dancing to Belouis Some in my stripe shirt and slip on shoes!
28 November 2016
Pirx the purist
Ah, memories! The Walnut Tree pub, Rhosddu Road, Wrexham. May 1980. The only time I ever drank in a pub when under age (if only by a fortnight). One part Dry Blackthorn to one part Carling Black Label, if I recall correctly. Two of those and I nearly got flattened crossing Grosvenor Road…
24 March 2019
BOBBY SVARC
I can remember when snakebite was banned from all Bass houses in the eighties.
25 March 2019
Brumbiscuit
Once mixed Tennents Super lager with Westons Vintage – both >8%ABV and it coagulated in a lump of brown sludge. Took some effort to get that down.
25 March 2019
JUST MARK
There used to be a Bass pub near me called The Drum – the sign outside was arranged as Bass Drum. And it was a circular building – round bar, nightmare!
25 March 2019