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All sweet ciders are shit.

>>17904249
ITS SHIIIT

>>17904249
Gay

For me it's the cheapest cidre brut in the store.

For me, Little Fat Lamb

>>17904291
You're gonna get fucking banned my brother works for Steam.

>>17904249
for me, it's your mom's pussy

>>17904249
Woah, did they really spend over one hundred years crafting that Mercury HARD CIDER?
>>17904255
>>17904252
They spent over one hundred years crafting that can of cider retards, how can it be shit?

raspberry or passionfruit?

>>17904291
isn't that shit expensive?

>>17904252
it's true, i would go as far as to say all sweet alcohols are shit.

>>17904249
Incredibly based. HOWEVER, the Raspberry version has a higher ABV. I also add a shot of gin to it.
>>17904380
the passionfruit is the worst drink I've ever had. it's awful. I managed to get through a 6 pack once but now I don't think I could get through a single can.

>>17904249
Pic related is actively superior in every way. Not as over sweetened, more standard drinks, milder hangovers

i've been enjoying this brand lately tbdesu

>>17904249
>calling it 'mercury'
I love cider. This name is stupid and I will not buy it.

>>17904249
So if Americans call alcoholic cider 'hard cider' then what's the difference between 'soft' cider and apple juice?

>>17904995

Apple cider is fresh, unfiltered, and often unpasteurized. It's also considered a seasonal drink and can be hard to find outside of the autumn months. Apple juice, on the other hand, is filtered and pasteurized, which gives it a longer shelf life, a sweeter taste, and a smoother texture.

>>17904249
I used to buy this all the time. Still prefer a dryer cider, but it was good for the alcohol content.

it's pretty efficient at a barrel or as a student drink but I'm past those days

>>17904953
Huh? why

>>17904249

>>17904249
I enjoy basque ciders and french ciders depending on my mood.

>>17905325
Allusions to ancient Western culture are not inclusive.

For me it's jacks

>>17904995
this is Australian, they have a "drought cider" but this is the stronger offering, not sure the history of the naming of the product so I can't guess if there was a seppoid influence on the name of this gear

for me it's my own cider made from Costco apple juice and white labs yeast

>>17906525
draught
fuck autocorrect

>>17905340

>>17905340
Just end the thread. This is the best cider ive had so far

>>17904594
No it's basically shit wine with carbonation and a fuckload of sugar. Generally <$10 which is fuck all by au standards

>>17904291
Guava is king

>>17904249
You can get the raspberry and passionfruit six packs at Liquorland during sales for 13 bucks. It's usually around 20ish.
I loved that shit until I didn't. SO much sugar it will give you the beetus.

>>17904249
>6.9 a/v

>>17904249
the worst fucking cider i have ever tasted, bought a 6 pack of this shit, could barely get through 3 of them, spilt one and next day fucking ants all over the place, might as well drink pure acid and pure fucking sugar cause thats what it taste like, i swear my insulin spiked 10 fold that night because of this shit

>>17908065
what's the problem?

>>17904249
Fuck this lol, I can't remember the taste but I know I hate them, I'm more of a sombersby apple boy.

The thing about american cider is it's all 100% made from throwaway/surplus apples intended for the fresh eating market, eg fujis/honeycrisps/galas/etc kind of shit you can find at the store. These are great for eating but shit for cider because they're full to the tits with sugar and have zero tannins, leading to a profoundly unbalanced cider that tastes like a jolly rancher slurry. For good cider you need to craft it from bittersweet cider apples and there are no bittersweet orchards in America.

Bizzarely, even these massively sweet american ciders can't fully satisfy americans' sweet tooths, so many cider companies have taken to adding straight cane sugar to their cider bill to sweeten it up even further. Seriously, check your favorite cider, if it's not advertised as 'extra dry' there is a good chance that it's 50% cane sugar swill.

One of the few widely u.s.a. available macro ciders that used british bittersweet apples and had an excellent balance of sweet/tart/bitter/funky was Crispin Brown's Lane, but they discontinued it in the mid 201Xs because amerilards couldn't appreciate the complexity. Now it's just gone massively to the other extreme where cider has simply become another vehicle in which to deliver bizarre, overblown artificial fruit flavors like Mango Guava Passionfruit and Bitchin' Berry Blast, the exact same trend that's happened in craft beers, kombuchas, and liqueurs. The endgame of all alcohol is basically massively sweetened, flavor blasted grain alcohol, because that's the LCD of americans' tastes and tastebuds.

Cider in America is frankly a fucking joke. Just eat a honeycrisp and take a shot of vodka and save yourself the embarassment of drinking this rancid garbage.

>>17908358
It's not like if the Brits don't use sweet apples and sugar to push the abv. Only the French seem to exclusively use bitter apples and sell the fully fermented brut cidres with like 4.5%.

>>17908358
Dead on. Don't forget the trend of putting an obscene amount of hops in every beer/cider. Why does everything have to taste like an IPA now?

>>17908385
this. always check the label for added sugar or "apple juice from concentrate"
>>17908358
Sxollie sells some non-cider apple ciders like granny smith and golden delicious thats pretty good, no added sugar ect. quite a few good south african ciders out there. must be all the sun and whites

>>17908358
It's not as if you can't make good cider from dessert apples either. Here in the UK the two main cider regions are the West Country and East Anglia (+Kent), where the former use proper cider apples and the latter typically use dessert apples, or a mix of the two. Good East Anglian cider is light and refreshing, definitely missing the depth of flavour found in West Country ciders but pleasant nonetheless, it has its place. Unfortunately because the flavour is much more delicate, it's when you start throwing shit in like sugar, sweeteners, flavourings etc that problems occur. I've not had American cider but this trend is definitely bleeding into the UK sadly, as many things tend to do.

>>17904249
dont get mercury poisoning... haha!

*appears in your path*

>>17904594
It's the cheapest drink you can get assure from goon bags

>>17904619
I think passionfruit is better than the raspberry

>>17909030
Aside**

For me it's downeast cider

For me it's K cider,this shit goes hard,the first thing I will do when I land in the UK is find a shop that sells them plus a good kebab

>>17904249
The raspberry version is fucking killer

>>17909039
Bottled bottom shelf fortified wines are cheaper. Cask fortified wines are cheapest.

>>17909764
oh, the smell

>>17904249
Ahhhhh Mercury.....
Sweetest of the Transition Metals

>>17908991
*evade successful*

>>17910912
Based sealab enjoyer.

>>17904249
Way too sweet, I prefer their draught.
However, I usually buy Coldstream cider or Cheeky Grog Co. If I've been in Shepparton. Cheeky Grogs cherry cider is my absolute favorite cider
>>17904719
I didn't like this last time I tried it.

>>17904291
18 year old hands typed this post.

For me it's wild turkey 101

>>17904594
18 dollars for a 6 pack by Ausfailia standards that's cheap

>>17913105
28 actually, it's just an effective way to drink, better than wine

>>17913126
Goon is only good with sprite or tropical juice. Little fat lamb is good but the fucking heartburn is nuts for me.

>>17908385
Imagine talking shit about British cider.

>>17909764
Never understood the appeal of this stuff, barely better than white ciders yet pretending to be some kind of premium product. Far nicer ciders in the UK, if you want a strong, widely available cider that's actually decent go for Henry Westons or Aspall or something.

As a connaisseur i drink the good stuff for 1.49€

>burgers will never know the taste of a westons vintage

I had never tried cider before but had a pack of these over the weekend and thought it was pretty good, it had kind of an apple juice concentrate taste and I was surprised this is the less sweet version, its what I imagined a "normal" one tastes like. what else should I try burg bros?

>>17915257
Try Thatchers for a minimum level of dryness to compare others against.