Beer reviewers bring a guest to try Loon Juice ciders

Welcome back to the next iteration of Beer Review.

This week, we return to the land of hard ciders for the first time since Milk and Honey last semester. The beverage of a choice this time around is Loon Juice.

From the Land of 10,000 Lakes by Four Daughters Vineyards, this multipack of ciders consists of Honeycrisp, Extra Juicy, Pear and Mango Grapefruit.

The guest reviewer this week is none other than fifth-year-just graduate-already, Brady Labine. In an act of sheer brilliance, we thought it would be funny to have our first-year RA do a Beer Review, and considering he is the only one that still goes here, we had to settle with him.

Remember, if your are 21 years of age, stop@buzzed. If not, stop@ sober, ya loon.

**Honeycrisp**

First on deck is the bread and butter of the Loon Juice cider, the Honeycrisp.

After sipping this drink for a little bit you realize how sweet it is. It gave us flashbacks to New Years parties in middle school with Welch’s non-alcoholic sparkling wine. This was one of the better drinks of the variety pack. It was not overwhelming in flavor and you could barely tell it was an alcoholic beverage.

This beverage pairs well with reading a light drama under the heat of a late Minnesota evening in July, as tested by our resident senior citizen, Brady.

**Extra Juicy**

The second cider of the week is Extra Juicy.

The flavor of this cider was very similar to the Honeycrisp. The Extra Juicy could be described as slightly sweeter than the previous drink.

Honestly, calling it Extra Juicy is a rather accurate description. It’s the difference between an apple with a little more crunch vs. an apple with a little more juice to it.

Well, the gloves are off, and the juice is loose. In civil court, this drink is found guilty on all counts of being a sweet and tasty beverage.

**Pear**

The third cider was by far the least favorite of the pack. The Pear-flavored cider was definitely something, and it for sure did taste like something.

At best it tasted like the skin on a very hard pear with little to no flavor. At worst it tasted like a burp from the same pear that was held in a jar for a couple of hours.

If there is one of these drinks to shake up and throw into a wall, make it this one. If you want a halfway decent pear cider, get literally anything else.

If you like this drink, do us a favor and see yourself out.

**Mango Grapefruit**

The final cider was the Mango Grapefruit. Interestingly, we thought this was going to be the worst of the pack. Initially, it was. However, after testing that God-awful Pear, we came to enjoy this sweet mango tasting drink.

It is dominated by the taste of mango, and if you like that kind of thing, you’d probably like this drink. The grapefruit flavor is not extraordinarily strong and is only noticeable at the end of the drink.

The bitterness shines through for about the last 10 seconds of each sip.

To us, this seems like the perfect drink for that blue-haired, snow bird of a grandma who goes to Florida every winter.

Well, that is all for this week. If you have any suggestions or just want to do a little guest review, beat Mack in a battle of wits and you’ll be sure to get right in.

We have some rather sad news for the single Bennie readers of this review.

Mack has confessed his love for 90’s Shania Twain and is no longer in the dating pool. So sorry.

Wishing nothing but the best for the new and happy couple.