/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16596825]

Is there any cider that isn't SICKLY fucking sweet or does that just come with the territory

[Anonymous No.16596831]

>>16596825

[Anonymous No.16596836]

>>16596825
im canadian btw if that matters

[Anonymous No.16596846]

>>16596825
Just buy some cidre brut.

[Anonymous No.16596945]

>>16596825
comes with the territory
somersby is quite nice tho
>>16596836
oh wait they probably make it sweet as fuck over there.

[Anonymous No.16597023]

>>16596825
just look for cider that says dry or semi-dry. idk if its harder to find elsewhere but here in new england theres usually a large selection of dry ciders

[Anonymous No.16597066]

>>16596825
You can try the Normandy cider that comes in champagne(-style) bottles. Stay away from anything that says "Doux"/"Sweet". Go for the "Brut", as anon here: >>16596846 said.

[Anonymous No.16597074]

>>16596836
>>16596945
definitely not a canadian issue unless you live in bumfuck alberta or sask or something, cideries are huge in ontario and west coast, there are a lot of dry cider options that are great, you gotta pay up though.

[Anonymous No.16597191]

sounds like you want some proper somerset scrumpy

[Anonymous No.16597206]

>>16596825
Yeah try basque cider, it was all the meme a few years ago, I'm surprised you haven't heard of it

[Anonymous No.16597287]

>>16596825
Woodchuck is bottled in Vermont, so you should be able to find some in leafland EZ. It's not dry, but also not alcoholic apple juice. Tastes like, well, cider. Angry Orchard is OK imo, but definitely not sugary sweet.

[Anonymous No.16597306]

>>16596825
Possman is p gud too, is German, tastes like apple champagne.

[Anonymous No.16597307]

>>16597287
Both of those are sugar bombs, retard

[Anonymous No.16597316]

>>16596836
Have you no decency, sir?!

[Anonymous No.16597323]

thatchers gold?

[Anonymous No.16597510]

>>16596825
Anything called scrumpy. You want the proper English stuff that's 8% or more

[Anonymous No.16597530]

>>16597510
>proper
>english
>cider
Pick none, nigel

[Anonymous No.16597544]

>>16597530
retard
cider is english
anything else is pish

[Anonymous No.16597722]

>>16597307
Well in that case, so is a plain apple, faggot. If OP wants something that doesn't taste like a fucking apple then he should say so. I thought he was talking about things like McKenzie's or Kopparberg where they actually add sugar. Idk why you're bothering with cider when you clearly don't like apples. Go drink wine.

[Anonymous No.16597743]

>>16597287
Formerly Woodsneed

[Anonymous No.16597746]

>>16596825
This is the best for cool fall days. It's like a summer shandy, except with a quality cider (instead of cheap lemonade) and quality beer (instead of piss water). The only problem is that it's only available in Wisconsin and it's only seasonally available.

[Anonymous No.16597757]

>>16596825
Try some actual good ciders from Normandy or the Basque. New York also produces good old world style ciders too, obviously avoid the angry orchard stuff. You want to look for ciders in wine/sparkling wine style bottles.

[Anonymous No.16597766]

>>16596825
Avid Cider Company Dragonfruit is very well balanced, not terribly sweet or sour. It's one of the few ciders that don't make me feel my teeth rot as I'm downing it.

[Anonymous No.16597770]

>>16596825
Driest cider ever made.

[Anonymous No.16597854]

>>16596825
try Strongbow then. I don't get it though because my english family calls it piss but then all the pretentious euroboo queers I know all act like it's the best because everything else is too sweet. Whatever, for me it's a nice 2L of Growers

[Anonymous No.16598159]

>>16597854
growers stonefruit is my fave

[Anonymous No.16598181]

>>16597722
It's painfully obvious you've never tasted actual cider

[Anonymous No.16598182]

Stowford press cuck.

[Anonymous No.16598442]

>>16596831
So...is this 1.9% per vol or 1, 9% abv per vol can? Who designed this can.

[Anonymous No.16598447]

>>16598442
inb4 anyone mentions my redundancy

[Anonymous No.16598492]

>>16597854
This is the first time a cider has peaked my interest.

[Anonymous No.16598549]

>>16596825

A lot of mass-produced "cider" in both USA and UK is adulterated with glucose syrup.

If you're in USA, look for pic related. You get traditional dry cider plus a few actually decent flavored ones (ginger and hopped).

[Anonymous No.16598563]

>>16596825
>>16598549

Plenty of craft ciders are specifically advertised as dry (i.e. not sweet).

[Anonymous No.16598570]

>>16596825
>>16598549
>>16598563

Pic related is a little cheaper but still apparently no sugar syrup added.

[Anonymous No.16598575]

>>16598570

(pic related)

[Anonymous No.16598590]

>>16596825

If you have a quality beer/wine store with imports, then look for unfiltered French or Belgian in 750ml bottles. Beware, though, some may have a raw "barnyardy" taste that may be too far in the other direction for you.

[Anonymous No.16598602]

>>16598590
That's tasty stuff, the importer seems to have stopped carrying it though

[Anonymous No.16598607]

>>16598590

Or you might try making it yourself. Supermarket cider and yeast is all it takes to get started. If you're lucky like me, then you'll have a local orchard that sells unpasteurized cider specifically for fermentation. Just know that the results will be a bit "rough" compared to the commercial options, which are often filtered, clarified, and have added carbonation.

[Anonymous No.16598626]

>>16596825
Magners/Bulmers

[Anonymous No.16598659]

It's funny how 2/3 of the recs here are mass produced garbage, 1/3 are real cider, and neither side thinks the other has anything useful to say

[Anonymous No.16598818]

>>16598181
Up to about 14 different brands off the top of my head, with everything from Kopparberg to Atacama, not to include the different varieties within each. That's also excluding the ciders i've only had once at a local cider festival and have yet to see since. I appreciate a good dry cider absolutely (I've enjoyed ones that put the driest white wines to shame), but if you only want ciders that taste nothing of apple, go fuck yourself with a rusty drill bit, because your opinion means nothing. It's people like you that created the abomination known as Original Sin.
Stick. To. Wine.
Pleb.

[Anonymous No.16598831]

>>16598818
>>16598181
I've also been brewing my own cider for the past 4 years (actually sold my first 2 bottles last year). You're a pretentious faggot and nothing you say can hide that.

[Anonymous No.16598882]

>>16598607
The issue is types of apples. Most French/Belgian apples are made primarily with crab apples, whereas most supermarket cider is primarily dessert apples. The sugar and tannins between both are way too different, and crab apples have a ton of skin extra which makes a huge impat on flavor. If you can get yourself a ton of crab apples you can blend them into supermarket cider (unpasteurized) and come out with something not terrible.

[Anonymous No.16599168]

>>16596831

[Anonymous No.16599501]

>>16596825
Depends on the country. Somersby is sour in most non-soi countries.

[Anonymous No.16599506]

>>16596825
>"apple flavoured" cider
>"fruit flavour"

Try actual real cider next time. You got the cider equivalent of HFCS "maple syrup" (contains no actual maple syrup).

[Anonymous No.16599544]

>>16597510
Scrumpy is some of the sweetest cider though, at least in my experience. Pic is not very sweet and quite nice but may be hard to get.

[Anonymous No.16599584]

>>16599544

Sounds tasty and the 3L box is nice. Unfortunately English cider imports in our part of USA are quite limited. There is domestic "craft" cider available regionally, but nothing quite like this:

>Salty Dog
>"A cloudy medium cider. Ripe and juicy fruit with hint of farmhouse funk."

Namely the last part. Now in the world of wine, "barnyard" or "farmhouse" scents/flavors are sometimes euphemisms, but I quite like them in cider. Something of an acquired taste though, like super-smelly cheese, perhaps why they are not more popular in American craft cider. The closest thing that I have locally is a boutique brewery with some unusual, delicious but "untamed" sour beers. (Expensive, though.)

[Anonymous No.16599599]

>>16599544
>>16599584

Also apologies if referring to Channel Islands cider as "English" was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.16599610]

Buy unfiltered apple juice and some cans of frozen apple juice concentrate. Mix to a sugar content of 100~120 g of sugar/litre. This will result in 6~7% ABV. Get some tannin powder for white wine and some champagne yeast from a brewing supplier and some glass demijohns, a siphon, sterilising agent and some swing-top bottles. Add 10 grams of sugar per litre of cider after filling your bottles, which will carbonate your cider after a few weeks of bottle fermentation.

[Anonymous No.16599748]

Try cider from countries with taste (i.e non anglo)

[Anonymous No.16599754]

>>16597530
England is literally cider country you fucking spacker

[Anonymous No.16599808]

>>16596825
Try any nice vintage cider instead of that industrial coca-cola tier garbage

[Anonymous No.16599916]

>>16598831
>>16598818
>>16597722
>>16598831
>muh koppuburg
Let me guess you have highly nuanced opinions about mcdonalds too?
Never change, /ck/

[Anonymous No.16600219]

>>16596825
Man up bitch

[Anonymous No.16600775]

These are for kids who don't know what to do with their Trudeaubux.

[Anonymous No.16601449]

>>16599916
Troll harder retard.