Cider and Youth Remembered...
Cider, in UK, is regarded as a light drink. It is even bought for the children if the family is having an outing to the pub garden. This is a really crazy thing, because if people bothered to read the label, they might find that the cider has more alcohol than the beer they are drinking!
Cider can indeed be a very delicious drink. A fine cider can be more enjoyable than wine, and will always be better value for money.
If one is in the cider-producing areas of UK, one might get scrumpy. This is basically the house's home-made. Sometimes, though, it looks like dishwater and doesn't taste much better ...but beware, beware, the effects. You don't feel it when you are drinking it, but it hits you all at once.
In my teens, we used to talk of the cider and sunshine effect. We would be drinking cider at the local pub in our college lunch hour, not feeling very much, until we emerged into the sun, and then, wham! It was pretty hard to stay awake through the next lecture! Actually, it wasn't so easy to even get to the lecture!
Some fairly mild ciders were sold in 2-litre bottles. One day, I bought one that I had not tried before. It's name was Olde English. This one was not mild, and I had an embarrasing time trying not to be horribly drunk at the house of my parents' friends who were putting me up during my first few weeks away from home, in London.
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I think I'm falling for J&B 
