Ace Pear is the desert wine of ciders. If you haven’t tried a hard pear cider (Woodchuck makes one), they are, in general, littler and sweeter than most apple ciders, crisper, and less tart. Ace is no different.
It is, however, more golden than the norm, slightly heavier (although still not as heavy as most apple ciders) and certainly sweeter, although it’s far from cloying or syrupy. It’s pours a lovely clear, pale gold color with a thin white head that disappears quickly. The bubbles remain, though, and a very pleasant champagne-like carbonation sparkles on the tongue. It has a very light mouthfeel and no feeling of alcohol warmth. The pear flavor lingers on in the finish.
It’s a little too sweet to go well with a full meal (although there are worse options out there, and it goes exceptionally well with salty foods, cheeses, and bread). It’s best sipped on its own on a supper evening, or as you might serve a desert wine. In short, it’s sweetly delicious, and well worth a try.
On a somewhat related note, I hadn’t seen Ace Pear in a while, so to be sure the reality matched my memory, I used the finder on the Ace Web site to find my local distributor, and then to the distributor’s site to find where it could be found.
For the bottles, I was forced to drive nearly half a mile … to find a six-pack at the local Candler Park Market. On my street. Of course, the draft version is a little tastier. To find that, I had to drive nearly a mile farther … to The Porter, an amazing upscale gastro pub. On my street. See, this is the trouble I am willing to go to for you, faithful blog readers and cider sippers. May your quests be even easier.
I’ll have a couple more cider reviews, a music review (Charles de Lint and Maryann Harris), and a book review (Jo Walton’s amazing Among Others) soon. So stay tuned, and let me know what you think.
John Adcox (he/him) has been a cross-media communications and content strategist, producer, user experience designer, and writer for more than twenty years. Presently, he is the CEO of The Story Plant/Gramarye Media.
Over the course of his career in advertising, marketing, and new media John has held a number of titles including Executive Producer, Vice President of Digital Media, Creative Director, Vice President of Marketing and Creative Services, and even CEO. In addition, he has hosted a radio show, acted professionally (although not since age 15), designed and written scripts for computer games, written a play for a professional theatre company, taught university astronomy, and written reviews and articles on topics including mythology, psychology, technology, religion, marketing strategy, and fantasy.
John was the Lay Leader at Inman Park United Methodist Church, and is now a member of Neighborhood Church Atlanta, a progressive, challenging, intellectually-engaging, warm, tightly-knit, and activist congregation that encourages connection, questions, and exploration. His many, many interests include books and literature (he is insufferably proud of his library), religion and philosophy, mythology, the Arthurian legends, travel, baseball, science fiction and fantasy, marketing communications, Celtic music and lore, new media, theatre, and politics, not to mention astronomy and cosmological physics, as well as the lesser sciences. He was knighted by the late King Richard Booth of the nation/village of Hay-on-Wye (the famous book town on the border between England and Wales) and was ordained a minister on the Internet (he recently performed his first wedding). So he is properly the Right Reverend Sir John. He is very happily married to the fabulous Carol Bales (Lady Bales of Hay). The couple makes their home in Atlanta.
John has published three novels, Raven Wakes the World: A Winter Tale, Christmas Past: A Ghostly Winter Tale, and The Star in the East: A Winter Tale of Ancient Mystery. Two more, Make Up Test: A Rom-Com Winter Tale and Blackthorne Faire are coming soon, and many more are forthcoming.
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You can’t beat a good hard cider. My friend, Jim Driver, a music promoter and former beer writer for Time Out magazine once told me that all the “healthy” brigade saying how natural apple juice is are wrong – apple juice naturally becomes cider, so cider is natural and apple juice has to be treated to stop it from becoming cider. “Not a lot of people know that…”
Ace Pear is the desert wine of ciders. If you haven’t tried a hard pear cider (Woodchuck makes one), they are, in general, littler and sweeter than most apple ciders, crisper, and less tart. Ace is no different.
On a somewhat related note, I hadn’t seen Ace Pear in a while, so to be sure the reality matched my memory, I used the finder on the Ace Web site to find my local distributor, and then to the distributor’s site to find where it could be found. 
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You can’t beat a good hard cider. My friend, Jim Driver, a music promoter and former beer writer for Time Out magazine once told me that all the “healthy” brigade saying how natural apple juice is are wrong – apple juice naturally becomes cider, so cider is natural and apple juice has to be treated to stop it from becoming cider. “Not a lot of people know that…”
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