This was the first of the alternative ciders I tried in my local following the Symonds situation.
I don’t normally drink Rekorderlig, because all its varieties are sugary sugary sweet – too sweet even for me. Wild Berries is no exception. It’s still better than Symonds, though.
Back in the UK for more ciders!
I arrived back home to find that our local pub had changed its regular draught cider from Stowford Press to Symonds, due to deals with manufacturers and stuff. I am not very happy about this, because Stowford Press is one of my favourite ciders, and Symonds is…not. It’s too dry for me, and I find it pretty tasteless.
What this means is that I’m tempted to start frequenting other local pubs instead. Hopefully some of them will have some tastier ciders for me!
It’s the last cider from Canada, and the fiftieth different cider I’ve drunk this year! I had this one on the 23rd of July, so I suppose it’s possible I might get to a hundred different ones for 2018. We’ll see!
You can see the logo better on the official website.
Waupoos is a nice dry cider with a lovely strength to it. I’d had this one the previous time we visited Toronto, in 2016, so it was nice to see it again!
We’re still in Toronto with the Canadian ciders! This is one I had in the hotel room.
Stadium Island Peach was a surprise, as it’s much drier than you’d expect from a peach cider. It was very nice though!
Back to the ciders! I’ve got a bit of a backlog of these so I’ll be posting lots of them in the next wee while.
Dragon Cider, like a lot of the Canadian ciders I had while I was in Toronto, is a very light-tasting cider – very refreshing for the hot weather. Awesome-looking can too! If I wasn’t trying to de-hoard my life at the moment, I’d have kept it as a souvenir.
This was the cider I had at the bar on the Toronto Islands.
Yes, you can REALLY taste that honey in the cider. It’s so strong, it actually reminded me of mead. I’m not the biggest fan of honey, so I wasn’t hugely keen, but it did have a nice light refreshing aspect as well.
This was another cider that I had with Mum at Pogue Mahone.
The 1904 is quite different to the 901. It starts off a little too dry for my liking, but the taste develops beautifully throughout the pint. This is becoming a bit of a theme!
This was the first of the two ciders that I had while out for drinks with Mum at Pogue Mahone on the Tuesday in Toronto.
I was pleased to find that a plus point of the Pogue Mahone management change is that they’ve started serving Brickworks 901 in a regular pint glass, because when I was in Toronto two years ago, they used to serve it in a jam jar!
Unfortunately I did not escape the jam jar, because I found they were still using it at the Elephant & Castle three days later:
Anyway, the cider. Brickworks is one of the most prominent cider companies in Canada – they make a good few different ones – and the 901 is probably the most common on draught in bars. It’s got a lovely medium sweetish taste – you just have to try and avoid the ‘jam jar as glass’ thing!
