Kopparbergs Pear Cider

Brewed by Kopparbergs Bryggeri
Style: Perry
Kopparberg, Sweden

Bottle. Pours almost clear and fizzy. Candy like jolly rancher aroma. The flavor is pear/apple candy and sugar. Meh.

500ml dark green(!) bottle. Very faint yellowish-greenish clear colour, No head. Low carbonation. Intense aroma of sweet pears. Taste is even sweeter, almost overpoweringly so. The sugar content must be very high indeed, it’s the sweetest-tasting cider I have ever experienced. At least there’s no perfume-ish sidenote, just pears/bananas and sugar - no "synthetic" note either. So if sweet cider is what you want, don’t hesitate. This is a popular beverage at pubs in the UK, but a thirst-quencher it’s certainly not.

Bottle. Pours nearly clear. I’d hesitate to even call the hue of it yellow, but that’s the closest I guess. Still looks more like water than anything else. Some white head from agitation from pouring, but it vanishes nearly instantly. Aroma when the bottle is opened smelled pretty nice, with a big Bartlet pear note, which as one gets closer and pours turns into bananas, with a little pear behind it. The aromas go back and forth. My partner described it as “sort of like you took banana candy and mixed it in water. It’s very empty in the middle”. Very true. There’s nothing here save for a huge saccharine sweetness. Cloying. Finishes with some unpleasant esters. Really weird and way too sweet. If they cut the sugar from it would be a lot better, as it does have some good pear notes to it - as it is, it’s too sweet even for a soda. I doubt you could even get kids to put down a whole bottle of this.

Can. Pours clear white wine body with white head that vanishes quickly. Aroma is sour green apple jolly ranchers. Taste is extremely too sweet, would most likely be an awesome perry if they toned down the sugar a lot.

Can. No head. Color is very pale yellow. Aroma and taste are pears and sugar. Quite artificial.

$2.95 green bottle at New Beer Distributors. Even before approaching the store’s ghetto glass divider, I knew this rate would be difficult. Listed as the third leading ingredient after water, 47 grams of sugar in this half liter bottle. Crazy Swedes. Poured into that same chipped & abused Allagash tulip. Garbage glassware. Clear pale, vibrant gold color. No head, even after an agitated pour. Smell is a horrid scent of candy banana Runts, urinal puck, & fresh sneakers. Wow. Tasting this is not something I’m looking forward to. ...Ouch. Pure white sugar, artificial banana, lemon-lime soda, & cancerous plastic additives. Big, harsh carbonation that just can’t thin out any obscenities. Terrible. Just horrid flavor. Swedish cider... what was I thinking?! I’d funnel three bottles of Babycham before even looking at this bottle again. An April Fool’s Bacardi mixer release at best. So revolting.

50cl can. Pours clear and weak yellow with a sprinkly off white head. Quite a lot of sweet pear and apple. Sweet with added sugar. A bit synthetic.

Well it tastes of pears. As for whether it’s any good I couldn’t really tell you. Not as good as some, better than others. Little sickly but overall ok.