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Drink Recommendations: HARD (Lulz) Cider

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  • NoWarningJustDawg
    NoWarningJustDawg Member Posts: 1,000

    I'm glad you found some winners in your box o' NWJD booze.
    Fair warning: Good cider is often quite expensive. Cider *is* wine, and we're not using Welches to make good wine so we're not using TreeTop to make good cider.

    https://www.snowdriftcider.com/ is in my opinion the best in WA.

    Of Tim's stuff, Cliffbreaks is closest to the "plain" cider I sent you. His Red is very similar to mine, and along with the (excessively) oaked Cornice those 3 are the ones usually easiest to find in PNW.

    I'm a big fan of Sea Cider up in Victoria, but I don't know what Canada's travel restrictions have done to availability lately.

    Liberty does a nice job out in Spokane from what I've tasted.
    https://www.libertycider.com/

    I know HCH is full of 0.1%-ers so perhaps you've already made the trip out to San Juan Island on your yacht to visit Westcott Bay Cider. That's a lot of their clientele. Otherwise, you can order online and I think at least one liquor store in Anacortes near the ferry carries them.

    Further south on Vashon, Dragon's Head Cider varies from ok to great IME. One of the few commercial Perries I like.

    the fruited ciders at Elemental in Arlington were meh to me, but I liked the plain - "Carbon" I think it was called.

    Whitewood down near Oly is almost always available at my family's tavern, and usually good. A couple tims the sulfite (burnt matchstick) was excessive. They added a tasting room a couple years ago.

    Yeah, 2 Towns in Corvallis had some good stuff. I preferred the bottles of apple-only stuff, especially the more limited batches like Afton Field or the anniversary batches, to anything spiced or fruited in a can.

    Send a massage if'n you want an opinion on something specific.
    Cheers--
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    In all seriousness great suggestions @NoWarningJustDawg, @GrundleStiltzkin, etc. Keep ‘em coming!
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club

    In all seriousness great suggestions @NoWarningJustDawg, @GrundleStiltzkin, etc. Keep ‘em coming!

    *cuming
  • NoWarningJustDawg
    NoWarningJustDawg Member Posts: 1,000

    I'm glad you found some winners in your box o' NWJD booze.
    Fair warning: Good cider is often quite expensive. Cider *is* wine, and we're not using Welches to make good wine so we're not using TreeTop to make good cider.

    https://www.snowdriftcider.com/ is in my opinion the best in WA.

    Of Tim's stuff, Cliffbreaks is closest to the "plain" cider I sent you. His Red is very similar to mine, and along with the (excessively) oaked Cornice those 3 are the ones usually easiest to find in PNW.

    I'm a big fan of Sea Cider up in Victoria, but I don't know what Canada's travel restrictions have done to availability lately.

    Liberty does a nice job out in Spokane from what I've tasted.
    https://www.libertycider.com/

    I know HCH is full of 0.1%-ers so perhaps you've already made the trip out to San Juan Island on your yacht to visit Westcott Bay Cider. That's a lot of their clientele. Otherwise, you can order online and I think at least one liquor store in Anacortes near the ferry carries them.

    Further south on Vashon, Dragon's Head Cider varies from ok to great IME. One of the few commercial Perries I like.

    the fruited ciders at Elemental in Arlington were meh to me, but I liked the plain - "Carbon" I think it was called.

    Whitewood down near Oly is almost always available at my family's tavern, and usually good. A couple tims the sulfite (burnt matchstick) was excessive. They added a tasting room a couple years ago.

    Yeah, 2 Towns in Corvallis had some good stuff. I preferred the bottles of apple-only stuff, especially the more limited batches like Afton Field or the anniversary batches, to anything spiced or fruited in a can.

    Send a massage if'n you want an opinion on something specific.
    Cheers--

    I was thinking of this gem from the '19 fundraising thread when I typed that...



    ...but who am I kidding. I'll take whatever I can get from the bored's fave gay man, Soup.
  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter

    I'm glad you found some winners in your box o' NWJD booze.
    Fair warning: Good cider is often quite expensive. Cider *is* wine, and we're not using Welches to make good wine so we're not using TreeTop to make good cider.

    https://www.snowdriftcider.com/ is in my opinion the best in WA.

    Of Tim's stuff, Cliffbreaks is closest to the "plain" cider I sent you. His Red is very similar to mine, and along with the (excessively) oaked Cornice those 3 are the ones usually easiest to find in PNW.

    I'm a big fan of Sea Cider up in Victoria, but I don't know what Canada's travel restrictions have done to availability lately.

    Liberty does a nice job out in Spokane from what I've tasted.
    https://www.libertycider.com/

    I know HCH is full of 0.1%-ers so perhaps you've already made the trip out to San Juan Island on your yacht to visit Westcott Bay Cider. That's a lot of their clientele. Otherwise, you can order online and I think at least one liquor store in Anacortes near the ferry carries them.

    Further south on Vashon, Dragon's Head Cider varies from ok to great IME. One of the few commercial Perries I like.

    the fruited ciders at Elemental in Arlington were meh to me, but I liked the plain - "Carbon" I think it was called.

    Whitewood down near Oly is almost always available at my family's tavern, and usually good. A couple tims the sulfite (burnt matchstick) was excessive. They added a tasting room a couple years ago.

    Yeah, 2 Towns in Corvallis had some good stuff. I preferred the bottles of apple-only stuff, especially the more limited batches like Afton Field or the anniversary batches, to anything spiced or fruited in a can.

    Send a massage if'n you want an opinion on something specific.
    Cheers--

    I was thinking of this gem from the '19 fundraising thread when I typed that...



    ...but who am I kidding. I'll take whatever I can get from the bored's fave gay man, Soup.
    I figured. 😁



    And what’s wrong with that girl’s areolas?
  • Laocoön
    Laocoön Member Posts: 529
    edited October 2020
    Mrs. Coon likes her hard ciders with a spicy accent & a peppery kick. Finnriver's Habanero Cider is her jam!! She claims it goes very well with Taco Time!



    She says another worthy spicy option is Locust's Pineapple Smoked Pepper.


  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam

    I don't take it up the ass, so no.

    I did drink a White Claw with my mom once while eatingMexi food. It was hilarious.

    For me, taking it up the ass is a selling point.
    The more you poast, the more ass you kick.

  • YouKnowIt
    YouKnowIt Member Posts: 545

    I'm glad you found some winners in your box o' NWJD booze.
    Fair warning: Good cider is often quite expensive. Cider *is* wine, and we're not using Welches to make good wine so we're not using TreeTop to make good cider.

    https://www.snowdriftcider.com/ is in my opinion the best in WA.

    Of Tim's stuff, Cliffbreaks is closest to the "plain" cider I sent you. His Red is very similar to mine, and along with the (excessively) oaked Cornice those 3 are the ones usually easiest to find in PNW.

    I'm a big fan of Sea Cider up in Victoria, but I don't know what Canada's travel restrictions have done to availability lately.

    Liberty does a nice job out in Spokane from what I've tasted.
    https://www.libertycider.com/

    I know HCH is full of 0.1%-ers so perhaps you've already made the trip out to San Juan Island on your yacht to visit Westcott Bay Cider. That's a lot of their clientele. Otherwise, you can order online and I think at least one liquor store in Anacortes near the ferry carries them.

    Further south on Vashon, Dragon's Head Cider varies from ok to great IME. One of the few commercial Perries I like.

    the fruited ciders at Elemental in Arlington were meh to me, but I liked the plain - "Carbon" I think it was called.

    Whitewood down near Oly is almost always available at my family's tavern, and usually good. A couple tims the sulfite (burnt matchstick) was excessive. They added a tasting room a couple years ago.

    Yeah, 2 Towns in Corvallis had some good stuff. I preferred the bottles of apple-only stuff, especially the more limited batches like Afton Field or the anniversary batches, to anything spiced or fruited in a can.

    Send a massage if'n you want an opinion on something specific.
    Cheers--

    I was thinking of this gem from the '19 fundraising thread when I typed that...



    ...but who am I kidding. I'll take whatever I can get from the bored's fave gay man, Soup.
    I figured. 😁



    And what’s wrong with that girl’s areolas?
    Nothing....the more the merrier ...