Tonight, I decided to do a sips thread. There will be three choices. I purchased these three Martinelli's ciders from Dollar Tree for $1.50 each. They have been chilled to 38 degrees. Let's start with the traditional Northwest Blend.
Absolutely delicious and refreshing. Full apple flavor, just makes you want to chug it. 8/10. Now lets try the Apple Cranberry.
Apple Cranberry, sweeter than the regular. I was hoping for a bit more bitterness from the cranberry to come through. 6.8/10
Pear. Mid sweet, not as complex or flavorful than the first two. Still pretty delicious, but I wouldn't drink this over the apple at any time. 5.8/10
Northwest blend isn't the "traditional".The traditional would be just "Sparkling cider"The northwest blend is a different product in their catalogue.Both are good, but they are different.>t. has been drinking Martinelli's for ~25-30 years.
I had no idea they made a pearMartinellis really ought to make an alcoholic cider, can you imagine how good it would be
>Non alcoholicSo isn't it just sparkling apple juice? I thought cider had to actually be alcoholic?
>>21683280In the US apple cider is non-alcoholic and is often given to kids around fall harvest (Thanksgiving timeframe). Alcoholic apple cider is denoted as "hard" cider in the US.
>>21683278Ahhh thanks for the heads up. I usually get the regular but I never paid attention.
>>21683279It would probably be amazing, I am sure they have at some point. But to deal with all the taxes, and government regulations, they probably make a killing off the regular juice.
>>21683279>adds moonshineproblem solved
>>21683303You've obviously never had actual traditional cider (I'm not talking about strongbow), if you're not an absolute pleb you're in for a treat
>>21683313I have but I also like Martinelli'sMy current favorite hard cider is Tieton Imperial which is still a little on the sweet side by European standards but it's easy to get locally
>>21683326I don't know if the west coast is really the place for that, I took a look at their site and they're more about adjunct flavored ciders. Historical note: Johnny Appleseed mostly spread his works on the east coast with a few inland states like Ohio. Here in the northeast you can get ciders made from long-forgotten apple cultivars from abandoned orchards. The makers seem to take it a lot more seriously. You probably can't get Portersfield or Contook out there but I'm pretty sure Farnum Hill has national distribution
tastes like childhood Thanksgivings and Christmases
>>21683404New years as well for me
I once drank a whole bottle of martinelli blush and I was shitting my entire being out that night
>>21683201Appreciate the reviews, I’ll pick up a bottle of the northwest for Thanksgiving>>21683278>t. has been drinking Martinelli's for ~25-30 years.Year round?
>>21683342>The makers seem to take it a lot more seriouslyI went to college with a girl from upstate New York whose family owned an orchard for hundred fifty years (hundred seventy now) and whose dad looked like the gay redneck from that show Ozark.She once flipped her shit at a New Jersey supermarket for selling some hybrid apple as McIntosh. "These are Johnny Macs!" (or maybe it was "Jonah Macs?"), she said at the time, ready to burn the store to the ground over this slight to appledom. If the rest of the apple growing Northeast are as fanatical as she is, then yeah: I believe they would take that shit seriously.
