"Matsuba cider" tasting review made with Japanese ancient wisdom reviews

In this era, if carbonated drinks can be purchased immediately at convenience stores, supermarkets, vending machines, it is not easy to go "Pine needle cider"is. This is a cider that was made in Japan at the moment, but almost now it is not made, but there was something sold in a bottle to tell the taste slightly, so I bought it and drank it.

How to make handmade pine needle cider,Put sugar water in a sushi bottle filled with washed pine leaves and leave it in the sunAlthough it seems that it is made by a procedure like a pickle making, this commercial product uses the extract extracted from pine leaves. I got an uneasy comment from a person who had drunk this product before, "I get a strange smell, a little smell like ...", but I tried to see what it tastes like .

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This is "Matsuba cider" (198 yen including tax)


It is written as "carbonated drinking water that the village's wisdom fosters". The design of the label is a very simple thing that designed a cider-like foam and pines. Was the bottle imaged pine needle? It was calm green,AppletizerIt is a stylish impression.


Raw materials are granulated sugar, alcoholic bean, apple vinegar, citric acid, pine needle extract. As for recent carbonated drinks such as "fructose corn sugar liquid sugar" and "sweetener", we can not find a name that is always included in raw materials.


Although it is less than 1%, it means that alcohol is included, so care must be taken when driving a car or a child drinks. It is said that carbonation occurs in a handmade pine needle cider made by pickling pine leaves, because it is fermenting pine against sunlight, but it seems that the page (now disappearing) of the manufacturer's site manufacturing method Because there is no such process, it may be supplementing the part of fermentation with alcohol.


As soon as it is poured into a glass, larger bubbles than a commercially available carbonated beverage will crackle. I smelled the smell at the moment of opening, but I heard that it did not smell particularly strange, or it smelled slightly sweet and sour in the vicinity of odorless.


The bubbles started to calm down after a while after poured. I tried drinking, but there is not any pale odor of pine leaves, I feel the smell like fruit and fair sweetness which seems to be apple vinegar. If I say it well, the taste is mild, and conversely speaking, the stimulation of carbonic acid, which is weaker in punch than the one around it, felt fresh.

Though I thought that the closest thing among the commercial products is Mitsuya Cider, the aftertaste is refreshing rather than sticky, refreshing and flavor is easy, it is certainly convincing if grandma is said to be a traditional taste stocked every year It was something. It was a different taste from previous information, so it may be that the recipe has changed from before. It may be good to try a carbonated junkie that has gotten tired of commercial things or a person who wants a refreshing drink that is perfect for summer.