This weekend, I lastly noticed the solar in February. What a tremendous restorative. Every likelihood for a stroll in shiny mild seems like a stolen treasure. Relish them. Once we don’t have the golden orb blessing us, there are little bit of brightness that may come from different instructions. I’m completely satisfied to take pleasure in these too. I used to be so completely satisfied to get 2 Cities’ Apricot Cosmic Crisp evaluation samples lately.
2 Cities is known as for Corvallis and Portland, Oregon the place the cidery is predicated. I’ve been keen on this adventurous cidery since I first tasted them in 2014! I can’t imagine it has been 10 years! You’ll find tons extra background in regards to the cidery in these earlier weblog posts.
Right here’s a rundown of my earlier opinions for two Cities!
The Baddie: https://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2023/03/cider-review-two-towns-ciderhouses.html
Crimson Bliss: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/10/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouses.html
Hole Jack’d: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/09/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouses-hollow.html
Two Berry Dream: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2022/08/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouses-two.html
Tenth Anniversary Cider Pacific Northwest Heirloom Mix: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2021/01/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouse-Tenth.html
Good Limes Roll: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2020/07/cider-reviews-two-towns-cider-house.html
Cosmic Currant: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/12/cider-review-two-towns-cosmic-currant.html
Hole Jack’d: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/10/cider-review-two-towns-ciderhouse.html
Afton Subject: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/06/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouse-afton.html
La Mûre: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2019/02/cider-review-albemarle-ciderworks.html
Simple Peasy Lemon Squeezy: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/12/cider-review-eden-ciders-siren-song-and.html
Cidre Bouche: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2017/11/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouses-cidre.html
Pearadise: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/05/very-perry-may-2-towns-ciderhouses.html
Pineapple: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2018/02/cider-review-portland-cider-company.html
Brilliant Cider: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2016/07/cider-review-roundup-common-cider-co.html
Hop and Stalk: http://alongcameacider.blogspot.com/2014/12/cider-review-2-towns-ciderhouse-hop-and.html
I like to recommend visiting 2 Cities’ Ciderhouse has an internet site to search out out in regards to the cidery’s releases and occasions: https://2townsciderhouse.com/
Right here’s how 2 Cities describes the Apricot Cosmic Crisp on the web site.
Rating your first intergalactic ace whenever you strategy with this apricot adaptation of Cosmic Crisp. Crafted with Northwest apples & apricots, this candy & zingy cosmic-apricot combo is assured to interrupt some chains. Cautious now, an excessive amount of hyzer and also you’ll find yourself out of this world. 9% ABV.
I’m tremendous curious to style how the 9% ABV comes throughout.
Look: pale heat straw, sensible, bubbly
All of two Cities’s ciders are beautiful. That’s not a shock, however I actually wasn’t certain what to anticipate from an apricot cider. I affiliate apricots with a mellow opaque orange colour, so this elegant pale straw was a enjoyable shock.
Aromas: Peach, lemon, minerals,
The Apricot Cosmic Crisp smells intensely peachy! It’s attractive and jogs my memory of fruity candies with citric acid, but additionally of stones and lemons.
Sweetness/dryness: Candy
Flavors and consuming expertise: Excessive acid, apricot, peach bubbly, boozy
I’ve to begin by acknowledging that this cider is doing quite a bit with sweetness and excessive acidity. It tastes very very similar to dried apricots; it’s extra vivid and daring than recent ones can be. I do want I might style the specificity of the Crimson Crisp apple, because it’s named right here.
The upper ABV is clear in some warming to the throat and abdomen, but it surely’s remarkably clean and full bodied. And since that 9% is coming in a full sized can, it’s an incredible dimension to share.
I discovered the Apricot Crimson Crisp Additionally very thrilling as a candy mixer- I used it with a barrel aged tequila and plain seltzer. For properly balanced meals pairings, the accompaniments ought to be equally daring however not overly advanced. I’ve had the pleasure of this cider twice. The primary time was after I tasted it and experimented with utilizing it as a mixer at a superb horror film get together. What a set of combos!
The movies we watched have been Dolls (1987) and Eraserhead (1977). I can definitely suggest the entire expertise thought it is going to be exhausting to breed with out the unbelievable firm.
And the second time I attempted this cider, I took notes after which completed my glass with vegetarian burritos with The Tall One and my absolute favourite new album of 2024. If something manages to high this, I will likely be shocked.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1ycq58KRtWt3wFtbuIkvLn?si=QUfXDq4CRPaQMiAFTUhafA
Maximize your deliciousness nonetheless you want. An enormous cider like this deserves it.
