Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Clear as a bell, gloriously effervescent, crisp and delicious.

A couple of hours later I suffered a thunderous (albeit thankfully short-lived) bout of gastric unpleasantness.

I do not know if these two events are related.
I think you do, b, don't you? Even the most sanitised cider is going to mess with your gizzards. Cider produced under the auspices of your somewhat dubious concept of cleanliness is liable to give most human beings dysentery.