Cranes Cider

I hadn't realised until I'd typed this in that I'd sampled this before on draught, so I thought I'd leave this here to compare with the draught version.

Light golden colour, slightly hazy and sparkling

Clean fresh fermented apple pulp nose.

Fresh straight apple flavour. Rolls nicely around the mouth with little or no tannin. Slight citrus and a gentle sweetish aftertaste of green apple with hints of vanilla.

This won’t set the world alight as a cider but it’s a perfect cider for a warm day or a session. It’s a very good alternative for the usual stuff on tap and they also do a range of fruit ciders with no sugar added which is a very good alternative to the sugar filled industrial alcohol crap that pubs currently tend to stock. More pubs should stock it and explain to people why they don't stock the other rubbish IMO.

Pale yellow, slightly hazy & sparkling

Not a huge nose, but a fairly typical appley slightly floral cider

Again slightly floral hint to the flavour but not at all significant, think Parma violets but very slight. The main thrust is a good simple mellow apple taste not at all offensive and very refreshing. No tannin. Slightly on the sweet side of the advertised medium dry more medium to me. Quite decent for a sesh on a hot summers day but won’t set the world alight.

Purple red clear and sparkling.

Very strong nose. Not of blueberry to me but a cross between 70s cherryade and bubble gum.

Very floral flavour up front almost Parma violets but with a bit of tartness from the apple. Again I can’t say I recognise blueberries in there. More like the fruit salads sweets again showing my age.

Not convinced with that one. It’s a bit artificial and a bit too floral to be refreshing for me.

Tizer red clear sparkling

Decent whiff of cranberry on the nose, but no lime

Fruity but not over sweet. Decent cranberry flavour but a little bit artificial.

Very little of the lime comes through but I guess it balances the sweetness. Roll it round the mouth and it goes fairly dry.

Sweet enough to please the kids but not sickly so. You could drink one to break a thirst easily.

Red clear& sparkling

Initial hit was 70s cherryade but after settling down it’s quite a pleasant sugary strawberry nose

Very strawberry forward on flavour but the raspberry cuts through as well. Not much of the blackberry comes through.

Not stupidly sweet and again quite refreshing if you serve it cold or over ice.

Note: I don't think I've ever tried a Kumquat so I'm at a slight disadvantage here.

Yellow clear and sparkling

Very artificial lemon cleaner nose

Ok that is very weird flavour wise. You get that Lemon cleaner up first but fades quickly to what I assume is the kumquat flavour. Not too sweet

No, that is pretty unpleasant I’m afraid. The Kumquat flavour on it’s own is ok, but the lemon pledge makes it close to undrinkable to me I’m afraid