BladeoftheImmortal
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Where my Cider drinkers at?
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Woodchuck and Angry Orchard are way too sweet for me. Both have 20-30 sugars per bottle, no thanks. Ace Joker cider was always my favorite, but it's tough to get in New York any more:
6.9% abv, 135 calories a bottle, 9 g of sugar. Lightly carbonated and dry, just how I like it.
6.9% abv, 135 calories a bottle, 9 g of sugar. Lightly carbonated and dry, just how I like it.
Portugeezer
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Love Koppaberg pear cider.
Bold Rock is quite good. Have visited the cidery a few times. Another good Virginia one is Potter's.
chargin' chuck
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Ace Joker is hard to beat. My drink of choice in 2014, went through hundreds of dollars worth of it. Can't handle overly-sweet cider like Angry Orchard.
I want to try Ace Pineapple and Grape cider sometime.
Irishmantis
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Okay Ace is now 2nd up on my Cider list
Dreadnought
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I haven't tasted many varieties, but my favorite is ice cider like this one:
The way they make it is pretty interesting too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cider
How hard is this to find?
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Don't like beer. I've only tried a few ciders of which Stella and Angry orchard green apple are my favorites
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
hey_monkey
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I've only had ice wine in general once or twice, but I loved it, so I am ALL OVER this idea of ice cider.
mhayes86
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I love to drink cider on occasion. I don't have a particular brand preference, but Angry Orchard is the most common one I see. Asheville Brewing Company also had a good one when I was staying in Asheville, North Carolina a few weeks ago.
The Southfarthing cider sold only at Hobbiton's Green Dragon Inn in New Zealand was really good (as were their beers).
The Southfarthing cider sold only at Hobbiton's Green Dragon Inn in New Zealand was really good (as were their beers).
Haven't tried many tbh. I remember liking Ace pear cider.
Gonna try a variety pack of the Austin Eastciders stuff. Their site says there's some just up the street. Good lookin' out.
Even if I don't like it I'm always in search of something better for the woman. She doesn't drink often but when she does it's always garbage. .
Her hair girl serves hard sparkling water/seltzers? Y'all seen that shit? Pretty much zima. Same aftertaste even.
Gonna try a variety pack of the Austin Eastciders stuff. Their site says there's some just up the street. Good lookin' out.
Even if I don't like it I'm always in search of something better for the woman. She doesn't drink often but when she does it's always garbage. .
Her hair girl serves hard sparkling water/seltzers? Y'all seen that shit? Pretty much zima. Same aftertaste even.
FaintColt388301
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Make sure you try the Pineapple one. I don't like ciders much but I could drink the pineapple for days. They made it perfectly right.
Aarglefarg
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I've been getting Monteith's ciders recently among other brands I try once or twice.
I used to get Rekorderlig but was put off a little by criticism of it not actually being cider. It still tastes great but it is disappointing to be mislead.
I used to get Rekorderlig but was put off a little by criticism of it not actually being cider. It still tastes great but it is disappointing to be mislead.
SiteSeer
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nm, wrong brand. whoops.
GreenMonkey
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It used to be pretty hard to find cider that wasn't Woodchuck, back in the 90s. With the boom in craft beer also came a boom in cider.
Woodchuck 802 Dark and Dry is my favorite but it is very hard to find. Gumption is good too.
I like Vander Mill and Strongbow also.
Woodchuck 802 Dark and Dry is my favorite but it is very hard to find. Gumption is good too.
I like Vander Mill and Strongbow also.
As long as its proper cider yeah I like it. This means that it is made just by fermenting apples and nothing extra is added. The cheap market ones here (Finland) are made usually from mixing water+sugar with wine (ugh...) which taste like shit. Thankfully there is a couple small breweries now making proper cider too.
Also sometimes buy the stuff from Alko (the governments monopoly shop for strong alcohol. Strong is anything over 4.7%. Which is kinda problematic with ciders and dry apple cider is naturally around 5% so water has to be added to sell it in normal shops). They got one or two Normandy ones usually available.
Also sometimes buy the stuff from Alko (the governments monopoly shop for strong alcohol. Strong is anything over 4.7%. Which is kinda problematic with ciders and dry apple cider is naturally around 5% so water has to be added to sell it in normal shops). They got one or two Normandy ones usually available.
Adam_Roman
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I've always liked the Woodchuck ciders. I usually get Amber or Granny Smith depending on what I feel like.
Woodchuck Amber is my absolute favorite.
nothing compares
I've never had that but I had McKenzie's Black Cherry cider and it's incredible.
Spuck-uk
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You have never drank proper British cider lol. Shit starts about 6%, only comes in pints, and shouldn't be sweet.
I don't know how people drink sugary trash like Angry Orchard, Koppaberg, Rekorderling or Magners. 90% of other flavoured ciders are trash as well.
Spuck-uk
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It's hard to get Cider that strong, only so many fermentable sugars in the fruit.
Spuck-uk
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Yessss, so good. The whole culture and social aspect around it in Asturias beats anything you can do with cider bought in a supermarket.
Best way of getting drunk
(but worst hangover, though).
Dee Dah Dave
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I like a pint of Diesel now and again.
JonathanEx
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I love a good cider. Not my drink every time, not always one for a long session, but I grew up in the countryside so cider was a big part of that.
So the main one was Aspalls, that's a lovely go-to on a Summer day, and is our local one. Me and my partner did mostly drink a country pub dry of it over one particularly fun week. Whoops.
Otherwise - for something different, I got in to Koppaberg/Rekordalig, but those are sometimes a bit overwhelming after a few berry ones in a row. For interesting flavours though, Old Mout Cider is ace. Kiwi & Lime is my favourite, Passionfruit & Lime is also worth a go. The whole range is, really.
So the main one was Aspalls, that's a lovely go-to on a Summer day, and is our local one. Me and my partner did mostly drink a country pub dry of it over one particularly fun week. Whoops.
Otherwise - for something different, I got in to Koppaberg/Rekordalig, but those are sometimes a bit overwhelming after a few berry ones in a row. For interesting flavours though, Old Mout Cider is ace. Kiwi & Lime is my favourite, Passionfruit & Lime is also worth a go. The whole range is, really.
TheContact
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Warm Cider and rum during Christmas time is my go to drink so good. With cinnamon.
MudoSkills
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Where my Cider drinkers at? Living under a bridge or sleeping in a shop doorway most likely.
so much irony
FortuneFaded
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Let me guess, you're the type of guy that wears a suit & tie to bed.
Baleoce
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This is my go to. I conveniently live in Hereford as well.
People seem to like him because he is polite, and rarely late.
Chuckie
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I like cider, but prefer beer
I put 1 sugar in my coffee
I prefer regular fries
I don't put pineapple on pizza
I must be a mystery to you.
Spuck-uk
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This is my go to. I conveniently live in Hereford as well.
This guy gets it.
Spuck-uk
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There are plenty of Ciders that aren't sweet. Like, most of the good ones, really.
Irishmantis
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I'd assume Cider would be with its high Suger content.
That's just me assuming though
You're drinking a toxin your liver has to process either way. It's pretty much a wash. Alcohol is not particularly healthy in the long run. Drink what you like.
MisterRoboto
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Best cider I've had and with the lowest sugar content..not overly sweet. Stella Cidre is not bad either. I'm intrigued by the Pineapple cider though. I will look for it!
Cider is a drink that benefits from high alcohol content.
Having lived in the West Country, scrumpy is the undisputed king.
But even Strongbow is miles better than piss like Angry Orchard. May as well ask for diabetes and stop drinking.
Most popular us cider is absolutely atrocious.
Having lived in the West Country, scrumpy is the undisputed king.
But even Strongbow is miles better than piss like Angry Orchard. May as well ask for diabetes and stop drinking.
Most popular us cider is absolutely atrocious.
Anything from CID tastes like piss. Seriously. I've tried them all.
Living in Quebec, the massive problem is that for some stupid reason it's STILL illegal to import cider for sale here. so all we have is local stuff.
Most of the local cider makers either do ice ciders (which are closer to wines) or really shitty ciders.
There's a few outliers that make really good stuff, though. The two best, imo, are what McKeown and McAuslan (which you can only have in pubs as they don't sell their ciders. It's what McKibbins' sells, if you're from MTL).
When I used to play WoW, I had a friend living in Wales who kept telling me about this cider she called "scrumpy" that still had bits of apple in it. I've always wanted to try it, but we looked into her sending me a few bottles and it was so damn complicated we just dropped it.
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