As I alluded to a few posts ago, I'm probably going to discontinue the cider posts. I'm sure there's a knack to writing about something as heavily subjective as taste, but I don't think I have it, so the cider posts usually just turn into a long list of ciders consumed and brief, mostly useless descriptions. Those aren't terribly interesting to ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I went to gieves's and darlox's annual bbq. This year they made a fantastic beef brisket, which was easily as good as anything they've ever made, and that's saying something.

While I was there I consumed a new hard cider that I acquired a few weeks previously at the recently expanded Lilly Handmade Chocolates. This cider was a Julian Hard Cider, ( Read more... )

Last time I talked about my love for Crispin Honey Crisp cider, which is pretty much the best cider I've had thus far. A few weeks ago I got to try another one of Crispin's Artisanal Reserves courtesy of theferrett. This time it was the Lansdowne, which we shared out one night during our gaming session. Lansdowne has molasses in it. I couldn't actually taste ( Read more... )

So in the past I'd posted about Crispin Cider, which was tolerable but not particularly good. Further research shows that this was specifically Crispin Brut; their own webpage describes them as the 'champagne of ciders', which is never a good sign ( Read more... )

I went to hooloovooo's birthday party and brought a J.K.'s Scrumpy Hard Cider with me for the occasion, which I had procured earlier that day at Lillys when I got my wife some Valentine's chocolates. The bottle was quite large, and the flavor was excellent; not too sweet, not too sour, easy going down. I'd drink it more often, if I could find it in cheaper ( Read more... )

The last two times I went to the Winking Lizard (the first with xhollydayx and the second with tigerlily_blue and Kate) I got a Harpoon Cider, which I liked very much. It hits that sweet spot between sweet and sour perfectly, meaning that it tastes better than pretty much every cider I've tried thus far, even though it came in a bottle and not on draft. The Harpoon cider ( Read more... )

are Cheese, Concerts and Cider. Let's discuss recent developments in each:

Cider
Before I left on my vacation, we had dinner with hooloovooo and celticcowboy68, which gave me the opportunity to have a Wyder's cider on draft. It was ok, but left a strange ashy aftertaste on my tongue. Actually, that's been happening with a lot of the cider I've drank recently, which leads ( Read more... )

I've been on a bit of a cider kick lately. Because I don't post nearly enough random lists on here, I've decided to document some of the many alcoholic ciders I've tried lately.

Strongbow - My favorite apple cider thus far. Not too sweet, a little bit tart, high alcohol per volume and not unreasonably priced for the quantity. Imported from the UK ( Read more... )