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Savanna Light Premium Cider


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A Cider brewed by
Distell Group Limited

Stellenbosch, South Africa

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91.74/5.01.9/5.03%4 Flute, Lager glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
The trendy addition to the family is easily recognised by its crisp white logo. Like the original, it's naturally brewed, not chemically concocted and is as full-bodied as Savanna, but with an alcohol count 3% low, you can sit back with a good few of those clear 340ml bottles and relax.

 Papsoe (9999), Frederiksberg, Denmark
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
May 24, 2008  
(Bottle 34 cl) Clear golden with no head. Lightly tart but discreet apple aroma. Light in body, some acidity and an artificial sweetness, but not many traces of apples. Lightly tart finish. Actually quite quaffable without the same amount of off flavours as the original Savanna, probably because this doesn’t have many flavours at all.... 110508


 omhper (10456), Stockholm, Sweden
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/101/56/102/59/20
Apr 11, 2008  
Bottled. Clear pale golden, ultra-brief head. Citric nose. Dryish and citric but thin and metallic. Some refreshing green apples, some candy. Light and quite refreshing, but a bit lifeless and thin.


 Suds_McDuff (1013), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston,TX, Texas, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/511/20
Nov 16, 2006  
very light yellow, low low head, crips but a litlle to watered down, great for a hot day and some vegetables fatty...thats about it but not to bad for nothing.


 ClarkVV (3547), Allston, Massachusetts, USA
1.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/101/52/20
Apr 24, 2005  
2004 bottle sampled in post good-beer swill tasting with Muzzlehatch and Tiggmtl. It’s becoming a frighteningly enjoyable tradition. I probably shouldnt rate this since I wasnt drinking it the "proper" way, as the website indicates (corona-style). Oh well. Pours a lucid yellow, clear and bubbly with a ring of white foam that is quickly gone. Aroma of blue cheese, dirty sea-water, sweet apples. The blue cheese is so distinctive, it beckons you to like it, and I’m almost thrown to the sirens, but then I snap out of it and realize this shit for what it is. Insipidly sweet flavor, spoiled, sugary, musty funk and sweat. Fair carbonation can not help this much sugary garbage. Bordering on alcopop. These "brewers" should be ashamed.


 muzzlehatch (4425), Burlington, Vermont, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/54/20
Apr 22, 2005  
12 oz bottle swilled unmercifully in the company of tiggmtl and ClarkVV. Very light gold-apple color, clear...smelly old funky apples that have been sitting in dusty concrete...poor sugary cheap juice flavor, a bit spoiled and stale.




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