What is the name of the drink consisting of Cider and lager in equal proportions?
Snakebite (drink) Anglia, and a "Diesel" at Newcastle University. Its colour lends its name to Purple Wednesday, the official student night at Portsmouth University. Snakebite (drink) A snakebite is an alcoholic drink. Traditionally, in the United Kingdom it is made with equal parts of lager and cider with a dash of blackcurrant cordial. Through the seventies and early eighties, bar staff included the blackcurrant cordial less and less until customers became fed up complaining and began asking for a "snakebite & black". Most people think of a snakebite as just equal parts of lager and cider, asking for a "snakebite and black"
Cider in the United States Adams as an alternate means to concentrate alcohol when it was far too cold outside to bring out the cider press. The taste for hard cider continued into the 19th century in pockets of the East Coast, but with the double blow of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe, where lager beer is the traditional staple, and the later advent of Prohibition hard cider manufacturing collapsed and did not recover after the ban on alcohol was lifted. Temperance fanatics burned or uprooted the orchards and wrought havoc on farms to the point that only dessert or cooking apples escaped the