Kopparberg Frozen Fruit Cider

If you have not already guessed from my previous blogs, I am a big fan of beer.
However as the Mrs is not keen and only really drinks cider I have grown fond of having the odd pint of cider every now and again.
When I worked in the local pub as a teenager we had a couple of punters who were really into their cider, because of this I developed a taste for proper Somerset Cider...mainly Scrupmy, which lets face it you can only have one or two before enough is enough.

Like I said, the other half is a bit fan of cider (I almost put 'big cider drinker' but I might have gotten into trouble!). Whenever browsing for a tipple to go with our tea she tends to pick up a fruit cider, mainly the big brands like Strongbow, Kobbarberg & Rekorderlig.
With the weather being as nice as it was I decided to buy her a treat, this resulted in purchasing something completely new from Kobbarberg.....Frozen Fruit Cider. Now unless you are really into fruit cider this may seem like a bit of a gimmik, but with the availability of buying cans of G&T and rum and coke in the supermarket this seems like a natural progression for the big brands to introduce something new as we approach pimms season.


I purchased both of the Frozen Ciders so that we could have a good compare of the products. We picked them up in Morrisons for a rather extortionate £2.99 a bag !! (I thought they were an introductary price of £2....I was wrong). The idea behind the ciders is that you throw them in the freezer for 8 hours and just cut off the top. If you buy these for the summer put them in the freezer on a morning, we left ours overnight and had to let them defrost for a hour or so in the fridge.

So lets start with the Strawberry & Lime.

 I do enjoy a mixed fruit Kopparberg normally when Liz buys them in, however with the Strawberry & Lime I just found it way too sweet. It was even sweeter than a Slush Puppy! At 4% you could really taste the alcohol, as it was mainly ice going up the straw every now and again you just get hit with the alcohol. For me it was just too sweet, now I know that fruit ciders and the 'new' alcopops and are designed to be just like pop, but this was just too much. 3/10

The next Frozen Cider is the Elderflower & Lime.

Similar to the first cider, this was 4%. The similarities end there!
More so than the Strawberry, the Elderflower had a real kick to it. It had a sweetness that you would expect with cider but was not overly sweet. For me, I think I enjoyed this as it reminded me of a iced slush drink that we had beside the pool in Cuba last year. The lime flavour came out quite strongly. On speaking to Liz about this one I all of a sudden had an brainwave...what would make this drink even better? A shot of Gin.
Now Im guessing that Kopparberg intended for these just to be drank as they were on a sunny summers day, but put this in a tall glass with a shot of Gin and a wedge of lime and you would have a really cracking cocktail. On reading this back I am unsure whether my 'brainwave' was a good thing of not for this drink, as it makes it seem like it is a mixer. Anyway, this Frozen Cider is definately worth a try. 7/10

On writing this blog I asked myself (and the cider expert) would we buy these again? Now that would defiantely be price dependant, I think that at £2.99 Kopparberg will really price themselves out of sales, as there are many iced cocktails available on the shelves for a much better price. If they were better priced we would certainly purchase the Elderflower one again...that or pour the bottled version in a freezer bag and make our own.