... But my firm favourite, and it has come to be a bit of an addiction, is lovely "Sourz", in particular the green apple variety!
Sourz is meant to be a shooter. It usually comes in shot glasses of (I guess) 25 ml, and is a bit on the expensive side unless you have a student bar near by like ... Read review
Advantages: It tastes so good!!! Disadvantages: May get sickly after a while... hasn't happened to me much!
...apple variety!
Sourz is meant to be a shooter. It usually comes in shot glasses of (I guess) 25 ml, and is a bit on the expensive side unless you have a student bar near by like I do. (A double Sourz topped up with lemonade is only £2.35! and 50ml is about £1.55). But it comes in reasonally cheap bottles giving you 70 cl (which is the same as 700 ml) in supermarkets for around £9. I bought my only bottle of the delicious stuff from ... .../>
As I said before, Sourz is meant to be drank in shots of about 25ml. Our student bar serves 50ml in a glass. The taste therefore is sort of non-existant as you gulp it back, then the intense sherbettyness (is that a word) hits you all at once. I tend to sip it slowly so that I get a prolonged tangyness and the drink lasts much longer. The manufacturers suggest you drink it straight over ice, or with carbonated water.
I hardly drank alcohol before coming to University, mainly because there wasn't really anything that I liked. I've made it my mission in the last few weeks to try as many different drinks as possible (plus I've been to so many pub crawls I haven't had much choice in the matter!).
I've since developed a taste for Baileys Irish Cream and for Magner's Irish Cider (both a bit on the expensive side for a Student). I'm still not that fond of beer and wine. I've tried shooters like Sambuca (not bad) and flavoured vodka (I discovered that yesterday... ummm bubblegum!). But my firm favourite, and it has come to be a bit of an addiction, is lovely "Sourz", in particular the green apple variety!
Sourz is meant to be a shooter. It usually comes in shot glasses of (I guess) 25 ml, and is a bit on the expensive side unless you have a student bar near by like I do. (A double Sourz topped up with lemonade is only £2.35! and 50ml is about £1.55). But it comes in reasonally cheap bottles giving you 70 cl (which is the same as 700 ml) in supermarkets for around £9. I bought my only bottle of the delicious stuff from ASDA last week for £8.99.
Taste ******* The most exquisite thing about it is the taste. One of the reasons why I've found it so difficult to find an alcoholic drink I like is that I don't really like the taste of alcohol. Notice how all the drinks I mentioned earlier all mask the taste of the alcohol by either cream, or fruit, or anaseed, or bubblegum flavour.
That is the beauty of apple Sourz... it tastes like a cross between concentrated sherbet and those little apple boiled sweets you used to be able to get (er... sour apples!). At only 15% alcohol there isn't really much alcohol to mask the flavour of... I say ONLY because other shots like After Shock are around 40% volume. The flavour has been described as a 'dual taste sensation' with the intensely sour, mouthwatering tangyness off-set by a powerful sweet taste of apple candy.
How to drink it **************** As I said before, Sourz is meant to be drank in shots of about 25ml. Our student bar serves 50ml in a glass. The taste therefore is sort of non-existant as you gulp it back, then the intense sherbettyness (is that a word) hits you all at once. I tend to sip it slowly so that I get a prolonged tangyness and the drink lasts much longer. The manufacturers suggest you drink it straight over ice, or with carbonated water.
Recently I've been having a single or double topped up with coke or lemonade with a straw, which I recommend. It lasts for ages, is still intensely green in colour (unless you've got it with coke when it looks just like coke) and the flavour is still really apply and zesty with a bit of fizz added, more sweet than using carbonated water.
Searching the internet I've found several other drinks using apple Sourz. The sweet and sour flavour helps make apple Sourz very versitile, making it a useful ingredient in the creation of several long drinks and cocktails. Apparently "Candy Apple Martinis" are popular at the moment, a mix of vodka, butterscotch schnapps, Sourz® apple liqueur and cranberry juice. I personally have never tried one, but I'm on a mission to find one of these now. It can also be put into a Collins and a Cosmopolitan. There's also original recipes such as the Appletini (2 shots lemon vodka, 1 shot Sourz apple liqueur,1 shot apple juice) and Cranapple Special (1½ shots bourbon, 1½ shots cranberry juice, 1 shot Sourz apple).
About The Bottle ******************* Sourz is imported from the USA. It says so on the bottle which has a really funky design. "Sourz" is spelt out in black outlined with white in an angular and wobbly font, making it look full of energy and tangyness. There is a minimalistic cartoon outline of an apple, again giving a feeling of juiciness and tingling taste by the splashes of liquid bursting out of it. The characters of the words 'SOuR ApPLE' look like this <-- . The bright green of the liqueur shines through this giving a really dazzling effect that the picture above doesn't do justice. The label warns to protect from sunlight or the colour may fade.
The whole thing implies movement and vibrant flavour, appropriate for a target audience of 18-29 year olds, like me! It is appealing to both guys and gals, but it seems to be more popular among females. This is supposed to be the age group that is adventurous and tries new things. I must say, that's how I discovered it in the first place. It was bright green, like flubber; I saw someone else with some and I wanted to try it. I was pleasantly surprised.
The label on the back is square and green with relevant addresses and directions on the best way of drinking Sourz (see above). There is no nutritional information or ingredients but I don't know if this is normal for a bottle of alcohol. There is a label on the back that says "Produced from Genetically Modified Corn". Though there is no actual evidence of GM foods causing any damage to health, this is a consideration for people who may be concerned by what they eat and drink.
So what's in it? ***************** Calories-wise I've just looked up some info. on a website and apparently for every ounce there's 103 kcal of energy. I don't know if that's good or bad as I don't know how much 1oz is. A conversion website says that's about 28ml, so a shot. As women are supposed to have 2000 calories a day, that's about 20 shots of apple Sourz. If my calculations are correct that would get you quite hammered.
In Conclusion **************** Just a summing up of the pros and cons here. An obvious bonus is the intense sweet and sour taste. However I can see how some people may dislike the very overpowering flavour as it could become sickly if you have a lot. Bare in mind it is marketted originally as a shot. You wouldn't want to sip vodka or After Shock for any length of time.
Apple Sourz has a characteristic green colour which may be off-putting to some but I find it an endearing quirk. It doesn't taste like colouring at all, and simply mirrors the vibrant taste with an even more vibrant colour. It may be a bit on the expensive side, but it depends where you look. As of writing this Sourz can be spotted in all kinds of supermarkets including ASDA and Tesco.com.
I think it is a very versatile and enjoyable drink that I'll happily pour into a shot glass and sip away for hours. (I'm not an alcoholic, just a Med Student!). The alcohol content doesn't usually make me feel light-headed in small quantities, but I sometimes get mocked. When people call me "hard-core" for drinking it I guess they're being sarcastic. 15% is plenty alcohol for me thank you very much.
Before you knock it for its random green colour give it a go. I think it's the kind of drink you'll either love or hate (er... like marmite!). But I hope you'll love it as much as I do! You've never tasted sour until you've tasted this!!!
A recent addition ******************* I forgot to mention; Sourz also comes in several other varieties including tropical (bright blue), peach (sort of orangy yellow) and watermelon (red). However I've only seen the apple and tropical ones around. My local Scream pub also does a selection of Sourz Towerz though I've never tried one. These consist of large cylinders which are filled up with Sourz and other yummy stuff for £9. You fill up your friend's glasses from the tap at the bottom. When I can afford it I'll try one of these.
Advantages: scrumptious yumminess is a bottle that gets you pist! Disadvantages: GREEN is usually evil!
...this time it works fantabulously! Sourz have created a miracle! Pats on back all round!
So there i am with my glad rags on slurring to the ever so cute barman (i'm hoping its a man, you never can tell these days) to pour me some of that toxic nonsense while i dabble into my unknown. £1.80 later - its expensive for a shooter, the green stuff is sitting dubiously infront of me. I'm not as sure as i was originally, it looks kind of thick and sticky ... ...make your eyes POP!? Well Sourz have captured that kick, the sour shiver thats lost now in our lieing sweetie world (sour cola bottles are sooo far from sour now! grr!) Its a delicious drink for us Oldsters that won't grow up. Its young, fresh, easy and delicious! Kinda like my good self! (wait...thats not very complimentary??!!!)
okay - dull stuff: Its imported from the States (bless those American genius') and comes in 70cl bottles - dunno what ...
Daysleeper 17.12.2001
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Advantages: Nice taste, mixes well Disadvantages: None
...this have to do with Sourz liqueur, you’re no doubt asking yourself? Well, the answer is simple. Apart from Midget Gems (made by Lion, with the liquorice flavoured blacks), I was quite partial to a set of sweeties called “Apple Tarts”, which were apple flavoured, if you hadn’t guessed. They were boiled, sphere shaped sweets around the same sort of size as brandy balls etc. and they were lovely.
The taste of Sourz is remarkably like that of the Apple ... ...I recommend two parts of Sourz with one part of lemon vodka and plenty of ice for a nice drink with a bit of a kick.
I’ve been searching for this in off licences in my local town of Belfast, but it was my sister who finally found it, and bought me it as a pressie. If you’re looking for it, try these addresses:
JBB plc
310 St. Vincent Street
Glasgow
G2 5NG
Or:
Munson Shaw Co.
Deerfield
IL.
USA
And on that note, I’m off to find my bottle ...
TheDuke 14.12.2001
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Advantages: Great for people who aren't a big fan of shots Disadvantages: Fairly low in alcohol really
...of the course, and Apple Sourz is one of the nicest ones around.
Sourz is a sweet/sour shot, with a very very intense flavour. It's not at all sickly, which is nice for these kind of 'cool' shots, and is the kind of drink which makes you gasp after you swallow it! It doesn't taste of booze, so it doesn't get down your throat and then suddenly make you feel sick. It is however very very flavoursome, so be prepared! I've never seen the bottle close ... ...I've never seen it on sale anywhere, although I have been told that it's available online.
Apple Sourz I think is one of those drinks which you tend to either love or hate - certainly that's what me and my friends find! But I'd definately recommend it! ...
drunkenabby007 03.06.2002
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Advantages: tastes great, versatile Disadvantages: can be sickly in volumes!
...a big apple (and cherry!) sourz fan!
It's a sweet-sour apple spirit and tastes great. Its smells really appley and sweet and that's exactly how it tastes. It comes in a 70cl bottle, which costs around £10 which I think is pretty good value. (£10.42 at Tesco, a few pence cheaper at Asda). It's 15% alcohol.
It's very sweet to drink, with a tangy-sour kick. This is not overly powerful or at all nasty, in fact I find it adds an interest to the drink. ... ...with friend - this is about 0.4 units of alcohol. I also use it as a cocktail ingredient or drink with lemonade or a dash of vodka, which is actually quite refreshing.
It vomed in a bright green bottle, but, make no mistake, the liquid is bright green too! It'sa very popular drink amongst my friends, and one that I don't think we'll ever tire of! ...
katherineh123 10.10.2009
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Advantages: low alcohol content Disadvantages: low alcohol content and very moreish
...time around it!
Apple sourz i love for many reasons, it tastes great as a shooter and as a mixed drink - mmmm cocktails.... more of that later. It has a slightly different bottle shape to the 'regular' bottles on my bar (obviously i refer to the bar i work at not the one in my wardrobe), so is more noticable, as its shorter and wider in diametre than others. Its a bright green colour so again under the lights on the bar it is quite visible. I believe ... ...it tastes of apples, with sourz in solid black lettering. The label on the back contains the usual rubbish, including ingredients list. The taste as advertised is very apple-ly and sour but has a sweetness to it too, when i drink it, i get a kind of 'buzzing' in my gums and tongue which is great then the actual taste, and then a very pleasant aftertaste which unlike most shooters wont make you feel ill, probably because it has such a low alcohol ...
scuba_angel 29.12.2005
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