Explosion Cider
The cider plan is in motion, just another two days and it will happen.
For now I’ve decided to taste some cider, when I say taste I really mean drink… without it exploding in my face. My lovely other half got me a box (12 bottles) of some nice black cherry cider for chirstmas. It was from the Red Branch Cider Company. Now I’ve had several pints of this before in the Bull & Castle (Dublin) and liked it alot hence the reason for a christmas present. The first opening of a bottle didn’t go well, the rest of the box was only saved by the fact that they came in swing top bottles. You see, the first bottle of cider decided it wanted to escape as fast as it could from the top, when I opened it POP…. WHOOSH! I had a gyser. Thankfully only half the bottle escaped (half in the air and on to the counter!) but man, the cabonation in that first bottle was amazing, if it was capped or a lesser bottle it would have turned in to a bottle bomb long ago. I’ve had to be inventive to allow myself to drink the bottles, first was slowly letting out the pressure, then came the quicker, turn the bottle upside down and release the pressure with my finger on the metal opener and let the glass fill up with head. It takes a few minutes but at least you get to drink it without KABLAM! All over your shirt/table/face/floor.
I’m to my last bottle and every single one has been a gusher so far, it’s gotten the nickname explosion cider. 11 explosions out of 12, it’s nice cider, a bit pricey for Ireland though coming in at €5 a bottle but it does come from California.
And the reason I’ve gotten through 11 bottles instead of sending it back? It taste damn good.