Cranes Cranberry Cider: A review of a refreshingly different drink

Before I was a wine drinker, I was a fan of cider.

Or, back in my student days, cider and black.

Then I got to 26 and I was getting married, and wanted to lose a few pounds stone, I went on WeightWatchers and found out there was EIGHT WEIGHTWATCHERS POINTS in a pint of cider. I got about 25 points to use up in a whole day. It didn’t really compute.

So I switched to wine, and now I save cider for a special occasion; a summer barbecue, a trip to Bristol, a curry.

When the Cranes Drink company were looking for people to try out their new cider, I couldn’t just sit on my hands.

The Cranes company was started by identical twin brothers Ben and Dan Ritsema, who figured why not try brewing cranberries because – hello – healthy right?

The cider isn’t just your average apple cider (not that I’m averse to that, at all) but made instead from cranberries and apples, which gives it a pleasing hue as well as containing less sugar; this means it’s also around 30% less calorific than other ciders which perhaps makes it slightly easier on the conscience as well as the waistline.

They are around 4% alcohol, so not likely to see you overdoing it either.

My thoughts on trying Cranes were that although it’s sweeter than I might usually drink, it would make a lovely treat for a summer evening or to serve at a barbecue. It certainly went down well!

Cranes Cider comes in three different flavours:

Cranberries and limes, blueberries and apples, and raspberries and pomegranates, which were all subtly different although had the same overriding crisp taste. My personal favourite was blueberries and apples although they were all pleasant and, er… easy to drink.

If you would like to try Cranes Cider for yourself, you can purchase it via their shop where it costs £27.60 for twelve bottles.

I was sent Cranes Cider for free for the purposes of this review but thoughts are my own. Want to know more? You can visit the Cranes Drink website, or follow them on Twitter or Facebook!

130 thoughts on “Cranes Cranberry Cider: A review of a refreshingly different drink”

  1. I love Crane's Cider, even more so with their new branding. My favourite summer drink is their blueberry cider 🙂

  2. lindsey stuart

    I love cloudy lemonade yum yum yum so refreshing, but I do enjoy an iced cider too lovely and again very refreshing.

  3. Stella Hervey Birrell

    Great post! I have entered. Only you can make me feel like a cider at half past six in the morning…

  4. My favourite summer drink is a nice tropical or fruity cocktail! absolutely love Malibu and pineapple and pimms too!

  5. I love cider but I'm diabetic so I have developed a liking for gin and tonic. I had some of the cranberry cider with some poetic license gin and that was rather scrummy.

  6. Johannah Carroll

    Red lemonade with lots of ice. I tried it on holiday in Ireland and I've loved it ever since. x

  7. I love cider with ice, a nice white wine with ice or rasberry gin topped with prosecco ?☀️?

  8. Edward Guerreiro

    It is genuinely cider. Particularly Henry Westons Vintage Cider. However, that answer makes it seem like I am pandering. So I will go with my second choice, which is Lemon Iced Tea.

  9. I'm a bit of a tart when it comes to drinking. Today I might have cider but tomorrow I might have white wine. It depends on whether the drink is cold enough or the weather is hot enough

  10. A nice cocktail – Zombie is my current favourite but we drink quite a few different ones as well as beer, cider and wine :o)

  11. Tracey Belcher

    I have a couple depending on circumstance – A long G&T with lime or a fruity cold cider

  12. Helen Craigs

    Gin and Tonic, I love to try out new gins! If on holiday I love a Pina Colada too in the sunshine

  13. Hannah Smith

    I think it has to be lemonade or ll me. It's refreshing especially with ice and so delicious! Thank you

  14. Chris Edmonds

    Cider has always been my choice of summer tipple, but with all the various fruit flavours it now takes me all year to try them!

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