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A while back Kathryn bought some hard cider, which I recently found out is only hard in the United States.  The rest of the world, mostly Europe, considers plain old “cider” to be alcoholic.  Back in the day non-alcoholic cider became so popular in the US that the intoxicating kind was renamed “hard cider.”  What was the hard cider for?  Some apple butter, that didn’t quite turn out if you read her post about it.  Although the cooking experiment failed, I drank the left over hard cider.  It was pretty good so I asked Kathryn to buy another bottle.  She came home with a 6-pack of another brand and I thought it would be fine.  But had I thought about it a little more and remembered that I had tried hard cider in the past, I would have known that not all hard cider tastes like cider.  The new brand tasted terrible, like beer with a few drops of cider in it.

Not wanting to lose out on a new type of adult beverage, I demanded a taste test.  Kathryn was able to get two more kinds, a big bottle of the original stuff and another 6-pack brand.  I still liked the original brand, but both 6-pack brands are very unpleasing to my taste buds.  Not satisfied with a 3 product taste test I swung by Total Wine, a literal wine warehouse, and bought 13 kinds of hard apple and pear cider.  Now the real taste test can begin.  For each kind Kathryn and I will rate it on the scale below.  And make this taste test a real chore I’ll take reaction photos (*warning* reaction photos may be staged).

1. Awesome – What?  This cider is alcoholic?
2. Good – I could drink this any day.
3. Average – I won’t waste this.
4. Bad – I’ll save this for somebody else.
5. Terrible – My garbage disposal pig is drunk because I keep dumping this crap down the drain.

I hope hard cider doesn’t become a gateway beverage and lead to beer consumption.  I like to be distinguished by not drinking beer.

The ratings so far:

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