Drink Recommendations: HARD (Lulz) Cider

Ain't no laws when you're drinking White Claws. The Throbber is a Black Cherry guy. And it doesn't make his ass fat.

Don't know anything about cider except the Angry Orchard shit gave me a helluva headache one time.

NoWarningJustDawg said:

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.

We have been fortunate to get to work with some apple varieties only a couple generations removed from their native ancestors in the hills of Kazakhstan.

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.

Doog_de_Jour said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Ain't no laws when you're drinking White Claws. The Throbber is a Black Cherry guy. And it doesn't make his ass fat.

Don't know anything about cider except the Angry Orchard shit gave me a helluva headache one time.

If I didn’t feel slightly guilty for periodically hooking up with your wife, I’d put your nuts in an apple press for sullying this thread with a picture of that swill!

@Pitchfork51 HELP!

NoWarningJustDawg said:

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 said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

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.

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.

Doog_de_Jour said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

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 ...

Probably not available out west but I like Bold Rock IPA (India Pressed Apple- such a fun play on acronyms!) and Jack’s Hard Cider Original.

Doog_de_Jour said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Ain't no laws when you're drinking White Claws. The Throbber is a Black Cherry guy. And it doesn't make his ass fat.

Don't know anything about cider except the Angry Orchard shit gave me a helluva headache one time.

If I didn’t feel slightly guilty for periodically hooking up with your wife, I’d put your nuts in an apple press for sullying this thread with a picture of that swill!

@Pitchfork51 HELP!

FRAT BOY CAN’T SAVE YOU!

Did @dflea share his sativa with you?

PurpleThrobber said:

Ain't no laws when you're drinking White Claws. The Throbber is a Black Cherry guy. And it doesn't make his ass fat.

Don't know anything about cider except the Angry Orchard shit gave me a helluva headache one time.

A man of taste.

LebamDawg said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

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?

there blurred?

How about trying a Pear Cider? I am not an apple cider fan

So there's no regulations here about it, but generally the term "pear cider" refers to apple juice fermented completely dry, and then sweetened with pear juice....which can be tasty, but often has that same raw, unfermented, cloyingly-sweet apple alco-pop character of the stuff Angry Orchard and Woodchuck mass produce.

If it is just made of pear juice, it is generally called Perry. There's a shortage of good perry, mostly due to the length of time it takes to grow pear trees.

In WA state, Snowdrift, Finnriver and Dragon's Head all make nice and fairly expensive perries on occasion. These all have some tannin giving astringency and structure. Tieton Ciderworks makes one a bit cheaper and simplistic but still enjoyable and Nashi Orchards (another Vashon Island company) supposedly makes a fairly cheap version in 4-packs that is a combination of regular pears and Asian pears. Haven't had it.

Speaking of no regulations, this creates another issue where cidermakers can put "dry" on the packaging when it is anything but.
It's a problem...But TL;dr: if people tell me how much they enjoy or despise residual sugar in their beverages I can usually recommend something.
Cheers--