Overall
5/10
It’s not that I’ve had worse cider. It’s that I’ve had better. Like when a child does some stupid shit I find myself looking at the can and thinking to myself “You could have done better”. Hell I’m gonna be brutally honest I’ve never made cider in my life. It’s possible I could have done better. Fermented apple juice my ass. That’s just next level lazy.
Packaging
Meh. I know shit is subjective but I don’t want to feel like I’m about to drink Halloween in a can. I feel like if I were to google “Tim Burton’s favourite cider” this would come up as the top hit. I had to re-check the can to make sure I didn’t see Copperplate Gothic in the font.
FORBIDDEN.
Ingredients
Fermented Apple Juice, sugar, sulphites (seriously this review is starting to make sense now)
Appearance
Holy shit it’s cider. It’s like pale yellow with bubbles. I do like bubbles though. I don’t want enough to tickle my nose like a good ginger beer but bubbles are a friend to cider. The colour does seem to look a bit too “apple juice” for me.
Aroma
Surprisingly there’s not much of a smell. I’m trying to think of a quantification but I keep falling on “neutral”. I mean I can smell the cider it just smells… muted?
Flavour
It’s definitely got bitter undertones. It’s got a good cider taste in that it doesn’t taste like apple juice but it’s almost like the combination of apples just doesnt work. In a way to be contradictory it does taste like apple juice. Shit is “Fermented apple juice” it’s on the goddamn can! So ya. Apple juice with bubbles and an alcohol tinge. I can’t leave this review alone I keep leaving and coming back. It tastes like they went to Costco and bought a skid of Rougemont apple juice and decided to turn it into cider.