Quick booze review

Okay, I'm in Walmart on my way home, and I see Redds Wicked Apple at 8 percent alcohol.
I think it's cider, but don't notice. So I'm in the checkout line and I know the dude in line behind me (I've seen him around at work) and notice he has Redds but the original. Then I see mine is not cider. I'm thinking maybe it's just flavored malt liquor, like that fake ass "apple pie" they sell in a mason jar.
So I ask him about what I bought, and he says it's pretty smooth.

I get home and sure enough - it's smooth as hell, possibly from the low carbonation content.
Regardless, it is smooth and comes in ten ounce cans. And at 8 percent alcohol it's not a lightweight, but it has ZERO taste of alcohol. I'm loving it! Two thumbs up!

It is cider but not very good cider as they use the wrong type of apples, they add sugar, and so it is too sweet and is lacking in acidity.

One big problem with domestically produced ciders is the US grows the wrong types of apples. Nearly all of the apples grown in the US are table fruit apples while as proper cider apples are so tart most people won't eat them raw but those are the apples you want to use to make the best cider. Try Hunter's Dry Apple Cider from South Africa. It is very good with a dry finish and a proper amount of tartness.

Where can I purchase this beverage? Links please!

http://hunters.co.za/find-hunters

I like Redd's Strawberry too. It's not out of the ordinary or anything, but it's a nice easy drink.

Hunter's Dry and Hunter's Gold. Or as I like to call them, Hunter's Sweet and Hunter's Extra Sweet. I prefer a Hunter's Sweet.

Redds is Polish I believe. They sell it over here in Polish friendly shops.

http://mashable.com/2014/10/05/hard-ciders-better-than-beer/

I haven't tried any of these but it seems like they are coming out with a bunch of new fruit blends for cider some of which maybe interesting. I notice that all of the major breweries are also now releasing ciders in an attempt to grow their sales in a flat market.

Redds is brewed by Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, WI. The major brands in the US and Canada have had flat or decreasing sales for some time now (almost 20 years) so to keep sales growth going they have been trying a number of different strategies. Some have introduced what are known as fake micro brew labels which are made by major breweries but designed to look and sound like higher quality micro brewed beers, others have tried to buy micro brewing companies and market them heavily to increase sales volume, while still others have tried to branch out into other drinks catagories to pad profits that way. MAny companies have diversified in cider, wine coolers, mead, hard liquor, etc... or even diversifying into nonalcoholic yet still profitable niches which use similar equipment like apple vinegar or wine vinegar.

You can be sure what ever they branch into they will develop new brands to market them to consumers with so that you don't automatically know it is coming from Bud, Miller, or the other major brands.

Must just be a different beer with the same name then. The stuff I'm talking about was definately Polish.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/10/10-ciders-craft-beer-drinkers-will-love.html

That has 10 craft hard ciders to try including a couple of pear ciders. They also include a "local" one from the mountains here in San Diego. The problem is the local apples are baking apples not juice apples so in reality all of their apples get imported from the PNW.

This kind of subterfuge and flim-flammery and misrepresentation pisses me off.
I might just grab myself some PBR on the way home - at least I know what's in, who makes, how it's made, etc.
PBR doesn't try to pass itself off as anything but cheap, dependable beer.

Not sure if serious...


Pabst Blue Ribbon is a beer sold by Pabst Brewing Company, originally established in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1844 but now based in Los Angeles.[1] Pabst Blue Ribbon is contract-brewed in six breweries around the U.S. owned by Miller Brewing Company.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_blue_ribbon

I did some research. Turns out PBR uses high calorie corn oil as an ingredient. Corona uses glyconol (found in antifreeze).
Yada yada yada there a lot of funky ingredients in beer. So I found a list of beers that don't use corn oil, MGS, etc.etc.
and will choose from that. So tonight I found Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA in the Food Lion and am giving that a try.

So what did you think of the 60 minute?

The 60 minute IPA was pretty good.

I was in Asheville on Saturday.

Soylent Green beer? Awesome!

Propylene Glycol is also used in a ton of different foods as an emulsifying agent and in hospital air sanitation systems. The type of antifreeze it's used in is the non-toxic variety. The toxic compound the fear-mongers want you to confuse propylene glycol for is actually Ethylene glycol.

BITCH SLAPPED by the beer gods! Let me preach on:
I had a holy shit hard day today. I was really looking forward to grabbing some hefe-weizen (yeast beer)
on the way home. So I go to the on-base liquor store. Side note a big thumbs up for promoting Georgia craft beers. I mean beer you will never, ever see in a big chain store. Anyway I grab my Weinestephaner Hefe
and move out. I get home and start pouring into my properly canted hefe glass, and notice that it's pouring a little
funny. I do " the swirl" at the end but nothing drips out. I take a sniff and it smells weird. Then I look at the cardboard six pack container:
It's ORIGINAL PREMIUM - not the hefe version!

I really had my heart set on the awesome banana & bubblegum aroma and giant puffy head of the hefe.
Whatever, I bought it so I'll drink it. Man I can't BELIEVE I didn't pay closer attention.

This is just like in The Godfather! After Don Corleone is shot Tom Hagen says "if this were ten years ago
you think they could have gotten to pop like this?" I'm paraphrasing, but you get the gist.
I'm slipping kids, and slipping fast.

At least you didn't do what a dumbass ex of mine did. She bought O'Douls instead of Heineken. And then blamed me even though I wasn't even there when she bought it.

All the calories and none of the fun. When I was in Iraq they had non-alcoholic beer. Sorry, no thanks.

I've been delving into snob beer recently. The above Green Man IPA was the first time I ever ordered a big boy beer by name all by myself. All my friends jaws hit the floor.

This past weekend, I had an OMB Copper that was really good. It was flavorful like snob beer, but drank like a light beer.

OMB follows the Bavarian Purity Law, so you can't just buy it and let it sit in your fridge for weeks on end.

I had an OMB Copper during a layover at the airport in Charlotte last summer. It was quite good, but expensive - no doubt because everything is in an airport.

I saw several guys fermenting that stuff. They would use plastic e gallon water bottles, decon with water and a little bleach, pour in the near beer, add yeast and a little sugar. It was a one step fermentation not a two but it worked. The carbonation was poor due to the threads on the cap.

I think you are talking about making your own beer or something. The beer our PX sold (and our gub'mint bought for unit activities) was an actual foreign brand bottled and distributed and sold everywhere in the sandbox. It was good tasting (I tried one for curiosity) but sadly non-alcoholic. Their version of O'Douls I guess.

Yes, people would get free near beer from the chow hall then ferment it in their foot locker to get a low alcohol kick.

HA! Yes now I remember where I saw a lot of the non-alcohol haji beer - in the mess hall with the canned sodas.

HOLY CRAP! I think that I have (by accident) stumbled upon the worst tasting beer on this planet, bar none!
Remember, I'm 52 - so that equates to a half-century of beer drinking.
And the loser is.......drum roll please......NATTY DADDY!
How in the hell can a beer have the aftertaste (and mouth feel) of RUBBING ALCOHOL?
Yes, you heard right! First, get scratched by your cat. Now get your rubbing alcohol and pour it liberally on the wound.
Notice that smell? Notice that bitter taste in your mouth a few seconds after the rubbing alcohol gets into your bloodstream?
This is the NATTY DADDY experience.

Anywho here is a review I found that pretty much sums it up, but not mentioning the rubbing alcohol experience.

Okay, I survived the Natty Daddy experience, and lived to tell about it!
So tonight I'm craving some hefe beer to drive any remnants out of my system.
But the package store to my east has way too much traffic to turn left when I leave to come home.
So I head west (same distance) but that package store has a shit inventory.
But there's a grocery store next door. Still no hefe, but I come close with Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer.
I love anything cloudy & unfiltered & raw. It makes you feel real primitive & old school!

It's slightly citrus, smooth, low octane at 4.4 alcohol - not bad really. One review says he smells
bread, grapes, vanilla, etc. but maybe he's having a stroke or something. I don't smell all that,
but then again my sense of smell isn't too great.

Not quite two thumbs up, but one for sure.