Strongbow Cider

Brewed by Bulmers Cider (S&N, Heineken)
Style: Cider
Hereford, England

Can. A - Light golden color with lots of bubbles. S - Sweet apple smells. T - Decent tasting cider, good amount of sweet apple, but not great. A bit of a tart and sour finish. M - Light and high carbonation. Fizzy and drying effect. D - I could drink a few if I want cider, but the flavors don’t necessarily make me come back wanting more. Notes: Decent cider considering it is mass marketed. Just kind of alcopop like.

Compared to English Ciders -- not great. Compared to American Ciders -- over and above the rest

Bottle. As Englands dry cider. Clear pale yellow colour with small head. Very dry lambic’ish cider. Its dry like white wine. and maybe has some apple flavour. Not bad when you get used to it though.

I really wish this wasn’t on ratebeer.com. I did not want to soil my ratings with this, but alas, it is so i must. It’s like a really bad champagne. Once that leaves you with a hangover worse than champagne, red wine and richards wild irish rose. it was sweet, carbonated, and I tasted not one apple. I brushed my teeth for 15 minutes after this.

It’s a cider. This happened to be a cider from a bottle, in fact it was an apple fermented cider. Poured like a cider, smelled like a cider, tasted like one too. Happened to be a dry cider, but had a nice crispness to it. Easy drink. If you haven’t caught on by now, it’s a typical dry cider.

From can, pours a clear light cold color with very little white head. Aroma not very present appart from some dry apples. Flavors is light, sweet apples. Light carbonation, sweet and dry finish. Nothing special, still quite drinkable and refreshing.

Draught at Trials pub. Crystal clear light amber. Aroma-chardonnay with a hint of apples. Taste is apples with a hint of chardonnay. Guzzler.

Poured from can. It’s hard for me to be objective about Strongbow; it’s been featured in a couple of very important episodes in my life. That said, it’s a basic dry cider, a little funky, with a nice golden color. It’s cheap cider, but so far ahead of American macrociders that it’s still a damned improvement.