Not sure I could stomach drinking a pint of cherry juice, but stirring a couple of tablespoons of cherry concentrate into a yoghurt is a good alternative, and also makes for a damn tasty yoghurt.
Ta. Thought I'd be a big brave boy and just ride out the five days of serious pain.Then f*ck me if I didn't straightaway get it in the other foot. Still, lost a stone over the ten days which despite my subsequent binge-drinking best efforts haven't QUITE put back on again. so its not all bad...
Will need a driver to go to casualty tho, would be impossible to drive there. Gout is an absolutely evil pain. Last time I had it, more or less had to starve for the five days it takes to subside because I couldn't bear to walk to the kitchen, let alone walk across the park to my GP.
I can strongly recommend Cherry Active, concentrated sour cherry juice, from Holland & Barrett, as others have said. One of my my mates recommended it for my gout and it was amazingly effective. It's not cheap (about £9 for a reasonable size bottle) though they're doing buy one get one half...