TBH, I haven’t had any alcohol in years, but I did try hard seltzer once. It wasn’t bad. It honestly doesn’t taste at all like seltzer. But like Candace said below, I liked the hard ciders better.
Nowadays the “worst” beverage I drink is raspberry lemonade. It’s loaded with sugar, but it’s not nearly as bad for you as the soda I used to drink.
I’m not a fan of the hard seltzer trend myself. I like hard ciders, and the recent popularity of hard seltzer seems to have cut back on the availability of good hard ciders. Not only that, but it seems to have caused cider-makers to start to favor making weak, lightly-flavored ciders, over the strong, sweet ciders that I prefer.
After decades when she never drank anything alcoholic except a few sips of New Year champagne, last year when we were visiting upstate New York my wife finally tried some good locally made cider and loved it.
Now our challenge is finding really good cider anywhere else in the country – the Angry Orchard stuff is tolerable, Samuel Smith’s is pretty good, but we haven’t yet found anything that measures up to the couple bottles we got in Ithaca.
Sorry I missed a couple of days, Clifton. If you’re still paying attention, one of my favorite ciders is still Woodchuck Amber (made in Vermont). It’s got a strong apple flavor, and is sweet without being cloying. I also really like Ace Perry (pear-flavored) cider. It’s well-balanced between sweetness and tartness. I agree on Angry Orchard and Samuel Smith. OK, but not my favorites.
I think a lot of hard ciders are maybe a little over-carbonated, which can lead to a bitter aftertaste. The problem I’ve had lately in my area is that I can often only ever find more “trendy” flavors, styles, and brands, many of which are really just not as good as my old go-tos, and seem to be trying to compete with the hard seltzer trend, instead of trying to be something different. Sometimes the classics are the best.
I rather like cider, but it gives me a bastard of a leanover (I’ve never actually drunk enough of anything to have a proper hangover), so I’ve learned to avoid it. Shame, too. There aren’t many boozy beverages I particularly like.
I’ve never had hard seltzer, but at my brother-in-laws insistence I drank a hard root beer once. One of the more ghastly substances I’ve had in my mouth. Unlike normally fermented beer & cider they make hard lemonade, root beer, seltzer, etc. by adding malt liquor to a regular beverage- which to my mouth tastes horrible. I don’t think it necessarily has to be awful (they made Zima this way back in the 80’s I think, I was never a fan but I could drink the stuff without making a face) it might depend on the brand.
So, this seems to point even more to the Abomination being the zombie-limb-ripper-offer. Obviously it has the same taste in beverages as its creator, and drank the last hard seltzer.
I keep wondering when I see those ads—who’d want or drink hard seltzer?
Y’ever try it? It’s not all that bad.
And it’s sweet, so Unity might actually be right on that last one.
I don’t drink, and the regular seltzer tastes just awful unless it’s in something else.
TBH, I haven’t had any alcohol in years, but I did try hard seltzer once. It wasn’t bad. It honestly doesn’t taste at all like seltzer. But like Candace said below, I liked the hard ciders better.
Nowadays the “worst” beverage I drink is raspberry lemonade. It’s loaded with sugar, but it’s not nearly as bad for you as the soda I used to drink.
I’m not a fan of the hard seltzer trend myself. I like hard ciders, and the recent popularity of hard seltzer seems to have cut back on the availability of good hard ciders. Not only that, but it seems to have caused cider-makers to start to favor making weak, lightly-flavored ciders, over the strong, sweet ciders that I prefer.
After decades when she never drank anything alcoholic except a few sips of New Year champagne, last year when we were visiting upstate New York my wife finally tried some good locally made cider and loved it.
Now our challenge is finding really good cider anywhere else in the country – the Angry Orchard stuff is tolerable, Samuel Smith’s is pretty good, but we haven’t yet found anything that measures up to the couple bottles we got in Ithaca.
Any personal recommendations?
Sorry I missed a couple of days, Clifton. If you’re still paying attention, one of my favorite ciders is still Woodchuck Amber (made in Vermont). It’s got a strong apple flavor, and is sweet without being cloying. I also really like Ace Perry (pear-flavored) cider. It’s well-balanced between sweetness and tartness. I agree on Angry Orchard and Samuel Smith. OK, but not my favorites.
I think a lot of hard ciders are maybe a little over-carbonated, which can lead to a bitter aftertaste. The problem I’ve had lately in my area is that I can often only ever find more “trendy” flavors, styles, and brands, many of which are really just not as good as my old go-tos, and seem to be trying to compete with the hard seltzer trend, instead of trying to be something different. Sometimes the classics are the best.
I rather like cider, but it gives me a bastard of a leanover (I’ve never actually drunk enough of anything to have a proper hangover), so I’ve learned to avoid it. Shame, too. There aren’t many boozy beverages I particularly like.
A friend way back when used it in mixed drinks instead of ordinary seltzer or soda water as we call it here. The result was fairly lethal.
I’ve never had hard seltzer, but at my brother-in-laws insistence I drank a hard root beer once. One of the more ghastly substances I’ve had in my mouth. Unlike normally fermented beer & cider they make hard lemonade, root beer, seltzer, etc. by adding malt liquor to a regular beverage- which to my mouth tastes horrible. I don’t think it necessarily has to be awful (they made Zima this way back in the 80’s I think, I was never a fan but I could drink the stuff without making a face) it might depend on the brand.
I know, right? Regular seltzer is gross enough as it is.
So, this seems to point even more to the Abomination being the zombie-limb-ripper-offer. Obviously it has the same taste in beverages as its creator, and drank the last hard seltzer.
Drank it with what? It doesn’t have a head.
Unless, of course, the Abomination came across Trinity’s head somewhere along the way. That would be bad.
Bold of you to assume that Unity (or Unity-adjacent beings) can only drink through the usual routes.
Has anyone seen Mlle Antoinette lately?
We were calling her Mme Tete.
Unity called her “Heady Lamarr.”
Didn’t it have an open joint somewhere? Maybe it could just pour it in directly.
Well, one mystery solved, unto next unsolved mystery!
“Wait! The hard seltzer is gone!”
” Um, right . . . Pavane must have sucked it up a couple of hours ago at the start of the voodoo ceremony. Right, about then. Uh-huh. “