![]() There’s a pretty cool ring around the mid to top part of the bottle with “Stella Artois” embroidered on it. What the bottle’s label lacks in style, it sort of makes up with bottle design. Oh yeah, it is a Belgian style of cider which I suppose borrows from the French anyway. ![]() Maybe one of the other bottles will be served over ice. Why is that? I’m going to drink this straight out of the bottle. It says it is best served over a lot of ice. ![]() I am not huge on apricots, but a peach flavor might be nice. 70%? What about the other 30%? So, do they go to some orchard where a bunch of guys are picking apples that they can reach and then when they give up, they get a crane or something to get the apples all the way at the top? Anyway, it says these are red apples but there’s also other fruity flavoring such as apricots and peaches. I have gone to their website and it says it is at least 70% hand picked apples. I wonder what type of apples Stella Artois uses then. I’d love to taste more apple and less gasoline. It basically says that French “cidre” uses sweeter apples and generally has a lower alcohol content so the apples can be tasted better. I’m going to assume this is the French style they are going for here because of how it is spelled. So, what makes an apple cider more “European?” Well, according to Wikipedia, there’s several “European” ciders out there. ![]() Apple cider has proven to really be my choice of adult beverage. Heck, their whole background story is how they created a beer for the Christmas star, hence the name. I guess I’ll touch upon the obvious which is that Stella Artois made a cider. At least 60% of this label is white space. I wonder why they wouldn’t just put it somewhere on the label? There’s a lot of wasted space by printing “Cidre” so big. It is, however, on the carrier thing that holds the rest of this six pack. Apparently this is a newer label as I took a look at the Stella Artois Cidre and it used to put more of an emphasis on the Stella Artois logo rather than the “Cidre.” On the old bottles it said “Made with hand picked apples.” It isn’t as obvious anymore on this new bottle. Right off the bat, the name of this beverage is “Cidre” so it is sort of spelled in a French sort of way. No, instead the label says “European style cider.” So, do they have a specific flavor of cider in Europe? It is kind of too late for me to ask my European friends so I guess I’ll have to do the research myself. I mean, I’d assume it is, but it doesn’t specifically say that this is straight up apple cider. Gridlock Ultra White takes a handful of risks for a generic energy drink, but it is painfully boring to drink, and at the end of the day, it is still a store-brand spoof of another beverage.Well, we’re covering another Stella Artois product, but this time it is a cider! Is it an apple cider? I’m not really sure. Consonant with the rest of the experience, Gridlock copies the kick from the aforementioned Monster, one that lasts just under three hours. Though I can praise Gridlock for ripping off a drink other than Red Bull, its taste is still a ripoff.Įach can contains: taurine, B vitamins, ginseng, inositol, guarana, and 140 milligrams of caffeine. Sweetness in this zero calorie cocktail is composed by erythritol, sucralose, and ace-k, a trilogy fine enough, but one that builds on the back of your tongue and clogs your palate with its extreme saccharinity that augments into an unpleasant aftertaste after only a handful of imbibes. Grapefruit and lemon are predominately featured, but they lack any punch, limping languidly onto the palate and rot as they make their way down your throat. The flavor is a complete riff of Monster Zero Ultra, a parody experience who's best joke is saying "see Monster, I can do everything you can for only a buck." But the problem lies in that the drink it clones was not very tasty to begin with. Why the hell would there be another Gridlock variety? It has been six years since I encountered the original two flavors, so why now? And why another diet one- did the original low-carb version have just a few too many calories? Either way, its can remains largely identical, complete with all the baby blue coloring, though it is now faintly textured, and the black has been swapped with white, hence the name.
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