Hornsbys Crisp Apple (Hard Apple)

Brewed by Hornsbys Pubdrafts/E and J Gallo
Style: Cider
Modesto, California USA

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

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Wickedly sweet taste. Reminiscent of apple juice, but somehow much more refreshing. For those of you who like complex flavors, stay away.

Clean and crisp, this a a tart apple cider. Very refrehing - not much but clean apple flavor. Good cider.

Not really a cider drinker, but I am starting to like them more and more. The smell of apple vinaigrette and the look of a dehydrated pee. Taste of a slight vinaigrette also but the apple itself is very good. A wonderful refreshing beverage for grilling and mowing the grass if your not in the mood for a beer.

Not much to critique with this one, but here goes my submitted attempt anyway—it’s a lucid, urine-bayed cider of which smells a little unsettlingly of stale wheat bread and simultaneously what it has the liquifiable essence of. Apples only detectable if you cram your nose on the lip of the bottle and snort away. Zero head. Tastes sweet—gratingly sweet—but seems to have an alright balance for the style in which it represents: caramelized sugar, apple cores, and sodium. Complex? Not so. Interesting? Meh. Drinkable? Yessir!

An sweet cider that offers a bit of a bite. It’s better than woodchuck or ace pear.

I love the Crisp Apple. It tastes like you’re actually biting into a crispy juicy sweet apple! It *is* sweet, but I like that. Feels like autumn when I drink a Hornsby!

Pours a pale golden yellow with active carbonation. Aroma of green apple. Taste is initially sweet with slight sparkling followed by a warm mellow sourness in the finish.

pours a lighter shade of yellow, minimal head, minimal lacing. Same as above, lots of red apple on the nose and is very inviting. Taste is more of like biting into an unprocessed spartan/ambrosia red apple. Sweet, crisp, minor woodiness, and a slight sour tart and tangy bitter finish. More complex than the amber draft and more enjoyable.

355mL stolen from a random refrigerator. Wow- much better than expected. Taste like mulled apple cider with whipped cream- a nice slickness to the palate with no wateriness or urea sting. Sharp, juicy, tangy, nice vanilla and whipped cream addition. Not bad at all. Nose is a bit lackluster- fresh apples. Pour is spritzy- quickly diminishing weak head. But great straight out of the bottle at a party.

12oz bottle. Totally clear yellow color, active-looking carbonation, minimal white head. Moderate, smooth carbonation. Some dryness. Some lace, nice, fresh crisp apple taste. Some juicy sweetness in there; apple skin. Not bad, a decent cider.

This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.