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6.2

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

16 oz can. Aroma is apple, cinnamon Fireballs. Pours clear deep gold with no head. Taste is sweet and spicy with a nice burn. Body is thin, carbonation is average, texture is watery. As a beer, this fails, because there’s only a trace of beer flavor. As a wintertime alcoholic alternative beverage, it ain’t too bad, though.

2.2

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

Dinky little can from a Kroger. Pours a clear pale amber color with a fizzy head that instantly fades. Aroma of tart artificial apples. The taste is the same. Thin-medium bodied, artificial. As expected. 8400th rating. Oops.
Earlier Rating: 7/5/2013 Total Score: 1.9
Bottle from a Kroger. Pours a clear amber color with a fizzy white head that fades quickly. Aroma of sweet, grainy apples and a faint sweaty sock thing. The taste is sweet and tart apples, not quite artificial but very candy-like. Thin bodied. Not a good cider, even by the macro cider standards.

5.5

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

8 oz baby can. Aroma is cidery, perfumy. Pours clear pale golden with a vanishing white crackly head. Taste is mostly sweet, a little tart. Tastes like a cider, not really tasting beer. No complexity at all, but it tastes good.
Earlier Rating: 7/2/2013 Total Score: 3.4
16 oz can bought from the discount cooler in a local convenience store. Never thought I’d be rating a Mike’s product on here! Pours clear golden with a collapsing white head; leaves a ring of foam. Aroma is basic apple cider with no offnotes or surprises. Taste is sweet, quite tart and even a little savory. Carbonation is average, slick mouthfeel. It’s not all that bad, really.

5.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

11.2oz bottle picked up at the state store
Pours clear golden with a small white ring, no lacing. Mild aroma of ripe apples. Tastes like apple sauce and cinnamon
Not bad but it tasted like old apples, not crisp fresh ones.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours gold with a slight white head. Smell of apple skins and a little cooked apple. Med minus body. Flavor is fairly sweet . Nice apple flavors. Just a bit of tart skin hanging around. Quite drinkable.

4.2

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

12 oz bottle. Aroma consists of wet dog, lemonade. Pours super pale yellow with a quickly disappearing white head. Taste is sweet and tart. More Mike’s Lemonade than lager, although there is a beery element in here, even if it’s really faint. Thin-bodied and highly carbonated. Pretty much what you’d expect.

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3.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle, and don’t ask me why. Always great to see a laundry list of ingredients on the side of a label that are not apples and yeast. Pours with a perfectly clear deep golden yellow (food coloring?) hued body with a few large bubbles. Aromas are of jolly ranchers, candied apple, tons of sugar and artificial acid. Cloyingly sweet. Lightly spicy character. Flavors are equally sweet, artificial tangy acidity but yet not enough to even come close to balancing the sweetness. Next to no tannic structure. Medium full bodied, lively carbonation. I might be a bit harsh, as this is not nearly the worst cider I have, but this is still pretty much the definition of an alcopop, and it really bothers me that most of the "ciders" one finds on shelves are like this. Cloyingly sweet and mind numbingly dumbed down.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

From a twist off brown bottle. Smell is like lite lemon pledge. No head. Taste is much better. Looks like lemon ade with a tad of orange inthere. . Taste is like an alky pop, but not artificial on the lemons. Pretty good overall experience, glad I picked this up. Good sizzling co2. Seems like a natural for mike. Goes down way too easy, could drink a few of these babies. Good overall ’beer’ experience, one of the better shandies I’ve tasted.