Hornsby’s Amber Draft Hard Cider
Price: $6.00 per 6 pack
Serving: 1 bottle, 12 ounces.
Calories: 170
Alcohol by Volume: 6%
Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 1%, 25mg
Protein: 0g
Carbohydrates: 5%, 16g
Fiber: 0%, 0g
Sugar: 9g
Hornsby’s says: There’s no blurb on the bottle, no website, and no mention from Gallo that this beverage is a part of their product portfolio.
We say: You could easily replicate the flavor of Hornsby’s Amber Draft Hard Cider by leaving a bottle of opened apple juice in your fridge for several weeks. Or you could try your hand at prison wine, an extraordinary concoction detailed in Steve, Don’t Eat It! Volume 8. The ‘Is this spoiled or is this how it is supposed to taste?’ effect is unsettling in a just-opened beverage, so the cider has now been sitting on the kitchen counter for a full 20 minutes while we contemplate just pouring it down the drain.
But that would be a waste of .72 ounces of alcohol (12 fluid ounces times 6% Alcohol by Volume) and the world’s foremost beverage review site is not about to let perfectly good hard cider go to waste.
Except that this isn’t perfectly good hard cider. The 2nd and 3rd swigs simply confirm that there is something very, very wrong with this drink. Perhaps it could be improved by repurposing the beverage as an entertainment device. Simply serve this to your friends and watch their faces contort in horror.
Fun in a bottle.
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I love hard cider, but it sounds like I should stay far, far away from this stuff.
Cybele - There are much, much better hard ciders out there. At a recent zoo-based beer festival (dangerous, I know), Woodchuck was featuring their pear cider from the tap. It was deliciously fresh and markedly different from this Hornsby’s stuff.
Ace is an ok cider. It is sweet, but there is nothing distinguishable about it.
Strongbow is bold with the fruit taste, but has an odd aftertaste and is expensive because it comes from England.
Woodchuck is an excellent cider. It is from Vermont. It is nice and balanced with a crisp finish. When I want a cider, I get the raspberry, or the draft if I want something not quite as fruity.
I just drank my first Hornsby’s….ehhhhhhhh…smiries green apple are better. Not a cider I know but good lord this crap is vile.
Ciders like Hornsby were a great influence in my life. As a kid I heard stories about the great ciders made here in the States and I patiently waited years to be old enough to taste some. Unfortunately, all that was available by the time I got around to the tasting, were abominations like Hornsby. The influence of these cr@ppy ciders had on me was to convince me to start making my own. They’re a bit scrumpy, but a heck of a lot better than most of the stuff you get in the bottle these days…
Wow! I was shocked to read this review. Hornsby’s is my favorite hard cider. Wood Chuck is way too sweet and so were many others I tried along the way of finding a good drink. I love Hornsby’s Crisp Apple and Amber Draft.
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