HardCore Crisp Hard Cider

Brewed by HardCore Cider (Boston Beer Company)
Style: Cider
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Hardcore Premium Hard Cider, by the company that brings you Boston beers. Pop the lid to get slight beery yeasty aroma with hints of apple sweetness. Unlike any other ciders I’ve had, this actually looks like a darker yellow pale American beer. In the glass it still has that beer like aroma. There are stream of carbonation arising. No head but a rim of white edge on top the liquid. Very little sweetness in the first tastes, is much dryer and less sweeter than any other quality cider I’ve had. This almost comes on like a very mild tripel, or barley wine that lacks alky punch. Carbonation is creamy medium which makes it likable. This may taste more like beer than cider, a very well behaved beer. Finish is not bitter but I’d swear that there are some hops in there like a mild lager. The very laid back dry sweetness of this could make it do able as a session beer. I will not mind having this a few more times.

Bottle. Pours like apple juice with a quickly dissipating off-white head. Aroma is funky apple. Flavor is musty, very much cider-like, only problem, it tastes like a warm cider that has been cooled. Might be good heated...then again, might not be.

Pours a clear yellow gold, with maybe half an inch of thin fizzy foam. No lacing. Well, ok, its a cider, not a beer. Apple in the aroma is pretty good, but not exceptional. I am truly unimpressed by the taste. It is sweet enough, but it tastes artificially sweet to me. Either artificial apple, or artificial sweetener - I can’t tell. Medium bodied, minimal carbonation. Hardly "crisp." This is alcopop. I’ll pass...

Gold with no head. Aroma is very light apple, a little dusty, and earthy. Taste is tart apple, white win aspect. I usually don’t like ciders, but this one is pretty good.

got in nawlins at sidney’s....pours with almost NO foam at all...light apple wiffs...actually quite nice...good apple flavours...not to sweet or dry, you could say its balanced...i like ciders and this one was enjoyable!

Golden color, very little head. Apple cider aroma with some malt. Taste is apple with some lager-ish taste. I’m no big cider fan, but this isn’t too bad.

Pours a dark golden with no head. Light apple aroma. Slightly watery, nice tartness. Easy drinker.

Bottle; Nose is light of apples; gold color with a ring of bubbles around the glass; flavor shows tart apples, it is not sweet.