Bird on a Wire
Crispin Cider Company in Colfax, California, United States 🇺🇸
Cider Regular|
Score
7.01
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Blended using 4 unique apple wines aged in both Rye and Bourbon American whiskey barrels. Apple wine fermented with irish stout yeast, belgian trappist yeast, sake yeast, and our original Colfax Classic. Final product is finished with tupelo honey aged in Bourbon barrels and a lingering open-mouthed kiss of fresh-pressed apple juice.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours hazy gold into a snifter. Apple, oak and honey aromas. Dry with sweet/sour apple upfront turning to oak and vanilla before returning to apple cobbler in the medium length hot finish.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2013
at 15:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a white wine glass. Pours hazy golden with small ring of head that dissapates fast. No lacing, medium body, low carbonation, and nice apple aroma. Taste is oak, rye whiskey, some apple, and a hint of honey, Complex cider, but it is doesn’t meld for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2013
at 18:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle (with some disturbingly chunky sediment). Pours with a must gold hued body with chunks (label suggested swirling). No real head. Aromas of barrel, spicy, musty, oak, rye, flint, apple sauce and lots of minerals. Slightly boozy, medium fruity. Flavors show lots of toasty oak notes: lactone and vanillin. Some isoamyl acetate, which seems a bit common for Crispin. Lots of rye/bourbon notes, apple sauce and cola. Off dry, medium bodied, low tannin but woody finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2013
at 00:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bourbony apple jack nose. Really awful dingy golden color, opaque, full of floaties, like water and chicken grease in a glass. Bourbon and apple flavor, as expected, with the latter dominant. There is an intrusive plastic component. Tasty and ugly.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2013
at 10:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours hazy gold with a few bubbles. Aroma is fairly bourbon. Maybe also rye. Definitely also apple. Flavor is rather cider sweet - I think it’s more rye than bourbon/van - Mildly woody. Think the honey comes through on the lips. Interesting stuff. Not getting banana ester, so don’t know where the trappist yeast went.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2012
at 17:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Cloudy yellow orange color. Aroma is soft pure whiskey. Taste is apple pie, vanilla, brandy. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2012
at 16:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Pours a hazy orange color with a bit of thin fizz. Aroma of sweet apples, earth, honey, vanilla, bourbon. The taste is sweet apples, vanilla, wood, spice, pineapple, citrus, honey, whisky. Medium bodied. Quite interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 16:00