That’s the price for a quart of Honeycrisp apple cider at Wegmania. As you’d expect Honeycrisp makes a terrible cider too.
I would expect any single-variety cider to be terrible. I don’t get why this is even a thing. Other than consumer ignorance.
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I went to Aldi’s today and they had Comic Crisps at $1.99 a bag. I had a bag full that I bought a month or two ago. I was not really impressed with them. Maybe I should try another bag full.
When I was in the grocery store the other day, the Cosmic Crisp sales for $2.99 /lb. I will not buy apple for this price. For some reasons, I still prefer the flavor of Golden Delicious
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I would love to try some Golden Russet fresh cider. I like the flavor, and its super sweet. I think I’d enjoy it alone.
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That sounds like a delicious idea.
I don’t ‘prefer’ Golden Delicious … the Opal is an improvement … but I did buy some a few days ago as they were large tree ripened with a rosy cheek and grown in Michigan and for around $0.80 per pound.
That only made them taste a little better 
When you find the large ones, give those a try. You’ll taste a difference
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This is exactly the Golden Delicious I prefer, Michigan Golden Delicious. The good ones are sweet, crunchy, and flavorful. It is my first choice if I am in store buying apples.
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I was at the store and saw some cosmic crisp next to some sugar bee apples. Both are related to the honeycrisp. I really like the cosmic crisp, but I have to say the sugar bee has a more interesting flavor. I’ve only seen the sugar bee for sale one time though. I think the sugar bee should have had all the hype of the cosmic crisp- seems to be the better apple!
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I will eat Golden Delicious if I pick it myself, towards the end of the season and it is dark yellow, which is a rare occurrence. A few years ago, I was picking Fuji in late October from a local orchard and I saw a single GD apple hanging from a tree (that was like 3 weeks past its picking window at that orchard), so I took it, and boy, was it sweet!! It was one of the best apples I have ever eaten… Unfortunately, Red Delicious and GD are most of the time picked too early (2-3 weeks from their peak) at pick your own orchards (at big commercial orchards it probably can be six weeks early), so most people get bad impressions about them and never try to grow them. The other complicating factor of course is the presence of many sports of each, and one never knows which sport he is eating…
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I missed that post Deep Blue Dustin…I have Niedz. and HoneyCrisp on the same “Frankentree”…but I suspect it might require a second generation of the cross to get a good eating apple.
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If anybody has some time on their hands, there are probably some really good clues about the variability in retail Cosmic Crisp apples in the following video:
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I saw this in the store today. There were some decent reviews online. Most apple ciders don’t mention a specific cultivar- or they are a mix of whatever cultivars come out of various orchards.
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I saw that on the drink menu at the local movie theatre this week so couldn’t turn down the chance even though I’m not a huge fan of most popular hard ciders. It wasn’t bad, too sweet for my taste but not as sweet as some ciders I’ve had. I prefer a dry hard cider. I didn’t taste the passion fruit really.
I got a bag of organic Cosmic Crisp apples a few weeks ago and they had a chemical taste reminiscent of gasoline. We ate a few but ended up throwing the rest away. It wasn’t something on the skin, we could taste it in the flesh too. Has anyone else experienced that kind of thing with Cosmic Crisp? I’ve never had anything like that in an apple before, it was terrible.
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I’ve never had a Cosmic Crisp that tasted of gas. Sounds like a bad batch.
Yes, I’ve had them a few times with an off chemical, bitter taste. I thought it was in the skin, I didn’t try the flesh without the skin. They can be pretty hit or miss in quality considering all of the hype.
The really good ones are outstanding though. I
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I bought a bag of them and they tasted horrible. They were so bad I took them back to the store for a refund.
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People are capable of deciding on things they like once they get to try them.
It’s hard to fool country boys that have had tree ripened apples …by hype and shiny apples.
Unfortunately, if it’s easy to raise and can sell at high prices to millions of city folks at the big supermarkets…they’ll keep a spot for them in the mega-stores. (And convince those used to red and golden delicious being sold 8 months after picking that this one is the ‘fountain of youth’.)