Two Elk apple cider (Swedish) is great and comes in 500ml bottles

For ginger beer fans - I highly recommend Royal Jamaican ginger beer.  It can be hard to find and you need to buy it by the carton to avoid paying a fortune for it but it really is the best ginger beer in the world.  It has a real bite to it and goes down a treat on a hot day.  Makes Matsos taste like lollywater. 

Personal preference I guess. 
I'm sticking with my pure blonde on tap in my kitchen haha. 

I've just tasted about  50 beers at the Tassie Microbrew festival - to  add to the circa 150 I've already tasted and patronised on a consistent basis.

Most of them were good to fabulous. Tassie is the place for  craft beer, cider, wine ( 6 styles), champagne, gin and whisky these days. 

I've drunk alcohol in 25 countries. The Apple Isle is excelling ATM with excellent quality water ( often spring) assisting the cause. Tassie is a drinker's paradise. I love living here.

Heineken, or anyone else reading this, apart from Lollywood, Gayfish and Munrubenmuz, who I've blocked/mutered, if you are down here , PM me and I'll take you out  and blow your mind - and brain cells!

If I'm intending to get fucked up, or not, I still want to drink something that actually tastes good, and not like a XXXX Gold. 

 A substandard drop compared to the Tassie local craft ciders I've just  drunk at the Tassie Microbrew Beer festival,  like Players, Pagan, Frank's, Willie Smith's, Lost Pippin and Coal Valley Cider though.

Montheith's brew excellent beer too.

Not as good as the innumerable fabulous craft beers I've just  drunk at Tassie's Microbrew Beer Festival though.

I got so disappointed from most ciders that I started making my own.  Granted I cheat and don't make my own apple puree I buy kit ciders and mix them. Have had so much more luck enjoying them now. 

And when your watching sport and intending on getting fucked up there is nothing better. 

Pure Blonde used to taste like beer, but now it's like having sex in a canoe. 

It's fucking close to water. 

Have always loved it. I'll admit I fell for the low carb shit. But i got hooked on it. And am still living it. 

I regularly have a keg of that.  Carlton draught, matsos ginger beer, little creatures pale ale,  Heineken and coopers pale ale always ready to hook up. But i just find pure blonde goes down line water. I love it. 

Pure Blonde stopped being an OK-ish Australian lager when it tried to take on Hahn Super Dry. 

Absolutely fantastic beer. One of my favourites. Regularly run kegs through my kegerator. 

But the cider tastes like what I would imagine cat piss tastes like. Got some for free and I still think it cost me too much. 

Monteiths Apple and Somersby Pear Cider are my personal favourites. Perfect in summer

I generally don't drink anything made by the likes of Carlton & United Breweries or Lion (Tooheys), The only exception to that rule is the smaller craft breweries that they've bought out that still make half-decent beers. Little Creatures (Lion), James Squire (Lion), and Matilda Bay (CUB). 

I mostly drink Coopers Pale Ale these days, and the rise of Young Henry's here in Sydney is allowing me to drink their beers on tap in more and more pubs. Their Newtowner beer is arguably the greatest 'summer ale' of all. Their Hop ale is fantastic too - very similar to White Rabbit's Dark Ale, 

After sampling the fabulous local craft beers, I won't drink Cascade any more, or Boag's.

I don't usually discuss this on here, because I know many enthusiastic drinkers off forum.

I think I've had Somerby's Apple and liked it.

 In this neck of the  woods the craft cider industry is booming as there is a big apple export industry.

Willie Smith is renowned for very dry ciders. Many beer drinkers like these, including me.

Players have some very dry ciders, a bit reminiscent of champagne.

Some of the fruity, sweeter ciders are Pagan, Franks and a fabulous Cole River Valley cider.

Most of the ciders are apple, pear and cherry.

 I've liked every one I've drunk!


I'd drink more cider, but apart frorn the dry ciders, they fill me up easily and I can't drink more than one, as they are pretty rich. I probably prefer the local craft beer. I'm going to  a craft beer festival tomorrow.

Fructose coming back to fruct you up.

-PB

Eh. The rights would have gone to CUB when they bought the Cascade Brewery a while back. 

Cider is unreal on tap in summer.

The only issue i get from Cider is extremely bad heartburn & reflux when i drink it excessively.

I told my old man about Mercury last night and after all the puns and references to the Solar System were done to death, he then told me that back in the 70s/80s it was a hugely popular drink in Tasmania and that's where it was brewed (and where he lived at the time). He was super stoked to hear of its resurgence. 

Monteiths is another fine drop for those who like something a little less sweet

The missus loves Lobo Cider from adelaide and there's a nice cider place in daylesford that does still cider. Plus around the corner from our place we have Flying Brick Cider which is starting to make a name for itself.

I'm a craft beer maniac when i drink so get exposed to a few smaller ciders. Not a fan though. 

I'm fond of the drier style ciders, i.e. Bulmers, Monteith's to a certain extent which are widely available. When I manage to find them I enjoy Batlow's, The Hills, Rekorderlig Dry Apple, Magners and Somersby Double Press.

Only reason I drink cider is that I can drink it to my hearts content without getting bloated like a beached whale like when I drink beer.

The Pure Blonde marketing extravaganza rolls on. 

Not only is it a shit, low-carb, supposedly gluten free mid-strength lager, they're now bringing out Pure Blond Cider. 

It's a Carlton & United brewed Cider that's now being pushed into NSW. It's been available for a while in bottles, but it's starting to appear on tap in places. My work are now selling it on tap. I'm fairly sure it's been popular in Victoria for a while. The CUB push is probably a short-termed marketing strategy to see if it's worthwhile continuing to make it. CUB hold the local brewing rights to Bulmers Cider in Australia, and I daresay that'd be close to the most popular cider in Australia. 

I adore cider. It's awesome.

I like be economically efficient with my purchasing, so I often buy the drink that consists of the highest percentage of alcohol per mL volume, while also not compromising on taste or drinkability (eg, straight spirits).

And so one of the best drinks I've found is Ginger Joe. It's ginger beer, so not officially cider, but tastes very cidery. It's 500mL, 8% alcohol, and about $8. It's my go-to drink when I watch an A-League match from home, and goes well with the summer heat. :)

Anything Jap is beast.

-PB

http://forum.insidesport.com.au/1843221/Cider?PageIndex=1
Check out the fight between Notor and Afro on page 2

Kirin cider and  monthieths  are great ciders. 

Somersby is about as good as sweet ciders get. You've set yourself up for disappointment by grabbing it first