Weird. Better call it unique, but tastes like fresh cut grass.

Bottle from some random 7-11 at the Boston waterfront. Ommegang Anniversary glass. Brown, still, clear, like old Chardonnay stuck on the back shelf. Smell is two parts sweet Mott's apple juice, one part grandma's candy dish(with a burnt menthol inconspicuously forgotten at the bottom). Caramel apple, root beer Dum Dum lollipops, & to a lesser extent, Vick's vapor rub. Taste is cooked apples & butter. Slippery, oily, still texture. Faint tarragon-like, herbal presence. Oxidation. Only mildly sweet. Moderate acidity. No playable tartness. This is a bit curious, in a good way. The feel is all wrong though.

On tap at the Raven Cafe, Prescott. Pours clear golden almost no head. Apples, some vanilla, moderate sweetness, light to medium bodied. Decent.

Bottle as pictured. Did not have high hopes for this one, was expecting a king of sweet cream soda thing. Oddly when I pop the lid it has an aroma similar to beer. Then, in the glass the aroma goes a little more towards dry apple. Looks like a pale lager as well. Taste is much better than expected, not a sweet sugar pop like so many other flavored ciders, actually quite enjoyable. The flavorings on top of the cider is balanced and well done. Also, many times the vanilla is overdone, this is not, just enough in there to let you know its there, like a ghost. Yes, friendly and pretty dry, good overall brew experience. Probably one of the better domestic examples of old real country euro cider out there.

Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours gold with an actual white head. Didn’t last long, but hardly ever see a head on cider. Aroma of cider and a little touch of sarsaparilla. Not getting root beer tho. Med minus body. Flavor is vanilla and cider. There is that rootbeer sort of finish, but just barely. The sarsaparilla is hardly there for me. It is rather dry.

Apple, buttery chardonnay nose. Clear amber. fine floaties. Apple, vanilla creme. Medium body, moderate carbonation. I didn’t get a lot of sarsparilla, but that would be weird in cider if it was too evident. The vanilla notes are quite nice. It’s a bit like french apple pie.

Bottle share @ The Stein & Vine, Brandon. Thanks Ty! Léger orangé, col fin blanc. Arôme offre de suite une belle dimension pomme-cidre avec un bouquet agréable de sarsparilla rappelant une root beer, retrouve une fine pointe de vanille en rétro. Palais est agréable offrant une belle balance en le côté légèrement astringent des pommes et une petite rondeur vanillée en fin de bouche. L’ajout de sarsparilla est également bienvenu. Retrouve peu le côté épicé et boisé du chêne, ce qui met à l’honneur les deux ingrédients spéciaux de ce cidre.