White Ace

Brewed by Matthew Clark Cider (C&C Group)
Style: Cider
Bristol, England

Serve in Flute, Lager glass

Can at home with Lyoli. Ok, this beer is interesting. Pours clear, barely faint yellow with some modest carbonation. Aroma is funky vinegar, chemicals and underripe green apples. Flavor is lots of green apples, not ripe, with some white sugar, chemistry, wool socks and leather. Light to medium in body with lively carbonation. Sweet finish, with more of the green apples, funky vinegar and some good boozy warmth. Obviously this is not a great drink, and from a quality standpoint I might give it a 2. But I do like touches of vinegar in my cider, and this one also is not cloyingly sweet. And the crunk value (7.5%abv for 79p) is off the charts. Not for the faint of heart, just the faint of cash.

Plastic bottle, courtesy of Farorviking
Water, almost no color, just a pale shade of yellow; no head. It has a cheap plastic aroma, warm plastic, light citrus fruits. It’s brewed with sugar and sweeteners, so actually it doesn’t have any apple flavor, but some citrus fruits touch and acidity (did they add also citrus chemicals?); also a light sweetener feeling. Quite bad, Jacob, quite bad.

1 liter plastic botella. Thin pale yellowish colour. Milod aroma of plastic and something appleish. Thin mouthfeel. Plastic, appleish artificial flavour. Hides the 7,5% alc. well.

Bottle, thanks to faroeviking for sharing. Clear pale yellow coloured with no head. Fruity aroma of apples, apple wine and alcohol. Fruity flavour of apples, apple wine and wod with acidic notes. Tart finish.

Can at MagicDave6’s gaff. This is so funny I can’t rate it. Chemically aroma. Just so poor. Apple fruit is very vague.

Can at home with mes, ian, lucky ronnie and soem other party chaps. Alround rating: Green apple m,etallic artifical acidic thin poor alcoholic nonsence. But iv defo had worce.

Awful. Like trying to drink hydrochloric acid with a bag of sugar in. If I could actually bring myself to drink more than a mouthful, it’d be the cheapest way to get drunk though.

Canned. Very pale yellow, just like pee. Aromas are industrial and acidic in the vomit sense. Flavours are artificial sweetners with little apple. Tastes similar to when you puke in your mouth (and swallow). Alcohol is not too evident, which is dangerous. Typical of the style and price range. Just 65p a can!