Mystic Dragon Cider
Appalachian Mountain Brewery and Cidery in Boone, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Other Fruit Regular|
Score
5.70
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Pours clear pale yellow from a can. Smell is surprisingly very much like cheap pale lager. Odd initial flavor. Taste is rather bland. Yes, there is apple sider in there but the rest of the stuff all blends together to yield a weird, somewhat tasteless brew. At least its not insulting. Rather well behaved. No real ill effects. No tea, rubard nor strawberry really peaks out of this one. Slight warming sensation going down the gullet. Not sure what to think about this. Finishes with a rather perfumy tasting palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Typical apple cider aroma. Flavor is semi-sweet apple cider, a little dry. Little to none of the other flavors detectable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3
Can from Tasty Beverage. Really ugly can. No high hopes here. Pint glass pour. Fizzy, yellow, turning almost a bile-ish sort of green. Smell is mild. Cider, yeast, baking powder, faint herbage & unripe fruit of some sort. Taste is crisp, with an immediate hit of powdered sugar & strawberries. Very tart, with big acid. Mildly bitter. Lingering yeasty matcha finish that I do not like. Okay cider base, but the flavor combo is just a bad idea. No one who enjoys cider would do this.