Kopparberg Cider

Advantages: Perfect for the summer, traditionally made
Disadvantages: Not easily available at the moment

...them. Within these vouchers were Kopparberg cider for £1.79 a bottle (usual price £2.10).They offered 4 flavours, original apple, pear, peach and summer fruits. Summer fruits seemed an ideal choice for a hot sunny day so I thought I'd give it a try. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THE STYLE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It comes in a 500ml bottle. The style of the bottle is a traditional style, green with and old fashioned label, which is probably why I never tried it before ...
...~~~~~~~~~~~~THE BREWERY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Kopparberg brewery was built in 1945 in Bergslagen in Sweden but was then taken over by the swiss in 1988. In 1994 the brewery was taken over by a well-known bank director Osslon and the master brewer Wolfgang Voigt which is when the brewery really took off. Sales went up and they produced many different ciders, beers, mixed malts and spirits. For more information on the brewery and the drinks they produce ... Read review

Advantages: Delicious
Disadvantages: A bit pricey

...presented with a bottle of Kopparberg Pear Cider and gleefully told that I didn't have to feel left out now because there was a cider I could drink. Was I that bothered about drinking wine instead of cider? Well no, but I thought it was nice of them to think of me so I took the bottle and started to have a read. Well the first thing that struck me was that it was Swedish - it was probably one of the last things that I expected to come out of Volvo ...
...sourced from the town of Kopparberg and made to a traditional Swedish recipe which dates back to the 1930s. It is 4.5% abv (you can also buy a non alcoholic version) so it is up there with lower end premium lagers strength wise and is best served chilled. There are no ingredients as such listed so I presume it is pure pear (no apples in there) but it does say that it contains sulphur dioxide which is a common additive in alcohol making as in very ... Read review

Advantages: Taste, sweetness
Disadvantages: Price, availability

...What is Kopparberg? Well Kopparberg are a Sweedish cider company and also the brands name for the ciders they make. They currently do 3 flavours (Pear, Apple and one of which I've forgotten the name of). Sweedish? Didn't know they had any breweries in Sweeden? Well actually neither did I until I heard about this stuff, I'd heard from a few people that the pear cider was like mind bogglingly nice so after spending a few months hunting some down ...
...a bit odd before you try it. Anyway on to the review. The bottles are 500 ml (1/2 a litre, just less than a pint) and are dark brown, with a giant pear on the front (with the apple variant obviously having a well, erm, apple on) and a pear on the cap. After opening the bottle you get a very suprisingly sweet smell, which is quite shocking as ciders make me think tangy from the others I've tried (Westons, Strongbow, Woodpecker Bulmers and Magners ... Read review

Advantages: Beautiful taste, unusual flavours, very refreshing.
Disadvantages: Can be hard to get hold of sometimes.

...WHAT IS IT? Kopparberg is Swedish cider made by a brewery in a Swedish town of the same name. The real beauty of this cider is that as well as doing your bog standard apple cider, they also make and sell more unusual flavours such as pear and summer fruits. PACKAGING The cider comes in lovely heavy old-fashioned style brown glass bottles, that make you think that you are drinking a proper manly mans drink! The bottles are a very good size too, ...
...I got rather overexcited when I discovered the Summer Fruits flavour in Tesco's the other day, so much so that I nearly had a heart attack. Anywho, I have now tasted the summer fruits, pear and apple flavours, and can safely say that pear remains my firm favourite. All are very sweet, bubbly and fruity, and very refreshing, and none taste even remotely alcoholic, which is probably why it is the only cider I can drink! The summer fruits flavour tastes ... Read review

Advantages: Crisp sweet taste, refreshing. Goes down well.
Disadvantages: Some might find it too sweet, can be twice the price of cheap ciders.

...fan, but in my eyes Kopparberg Pear Cider is just about the best cider you can get. It has a crisp, sweet taste and is ever so refreshing when served cold over ice. Unlike a lot of ciders you won't find it being dry or bitter. The reason I don't drink most ciders in the first place. It goes down so well and is really a breeze to drink, and at 4.5% vol. you'll probably start to feel it after 2 or 3 pints. The bubbles are really fine and it doesn't ...
...stuff almost tastes like fizzy pear juice, excellent for when you're finding it hard to stomach your drink. The only slight problem people might have with it, is that it is very sweet. I believe that sugar is added to the final drink and so that might explain why it is so sweet. It's not sweet to the sickly extent, but its on par with the sweetness of most alcopops. The other thing is the price. I find it's usually priced around the same price ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, clean, you know what you're getting
Disadvantages: Hardly any variation between different pubs

...only significant snag and the reason that I would not award five stars out of five in this review. Mainstream lagers such as Stella Artois, Fosters etc are always available on draught, and they are usually available in bottles as well. But other local ales, the sale of which Wetherspoons seems to trumpet as proof of their community credentials, are not always as available - the 'Not currently available' sign is one that I am now well acquainted with. Other less-well-known beers and lagers (such as from their worldwide range - Efes, Baltika etc) seem to be well-stocked (or under-consumed, one of the two), but my favourite cider - Kopparberg - often suffers from being understocked (or massively over-consumed!) If Wetherspoons could ensure a better distribution of supply across a greater proportion of their product range, my opinion of them... Read review

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