Doc's Draft Dry Hopped Hard Cider
Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery in Warwick, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Hopped Regular|
Score
6.55
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Large bottle from Binny’s Oak Brook. Served with Thanksgiving dinner. Smell is decent, with just a thin note of apple, not overly sweet. Pours with a nice fizz. Taste is pretty fair, a decent light apple taste, and not overly sweet, thanks to the dry hopping. A whole bottle might end up overly sweet, and there is a note of sulfates, it seems. But it’s a good dinner cider.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle purchased at 7 Eleven, Kittery. The aroma shows weak citrus, subtle pine, and apple juice. The flavor carries just a touch of the hops. Mild citrus with a wisp of pine. Just like the original cider, this dry hopped variation is lighter bodied. This does show a little more character than the standard cider. Respectable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
650 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet Sola. ABV is 5.5%, Extremely pale and clear straw colour, pours with vigorous carbonation and a shortlived white head. Pleasant aroma of apples and citrussy and herbal hops. Medium sweet flavour, notes of sweet eating apples and bittering hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
650ml bottle from the Cider Tap, Euston. Pale yellow colour, short-lived white foam head and aroma of floral, apple, fruity, citrus. Taste is tart apple, tangy & fruity, apricot yeasty, floral citrus hop, bittersweet with some drying tannin. Light bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry oily hop finish. Quite drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hytte 240715. Yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is hop, apple, yeast. Flavour is hop, apple, yeast, citrus, pine, floral. Nice cider.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle poured and split. Pours a clear pear color with no head. Subtle hops and sweet apple aroma. Hops balance out the apple sweetness very well. Makes for a very nice, easy drinking cider. Nice!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
650 ml bottle. Clear straw-golden body with lively carbonation and a medium sized white head that disappears almost immediately. Aroma has wood, yeast, hay and some green hops where the apples starts in the background but becomes a bit more pronounced after a while. Flavor is fruity apples, quite much grassy hops, yeast and some kind of bitterness that’s remind me of eating older hop pellets – ie more grassy and wood and less fruity or floral. Medium body and slightly harsh bitter aftertaste. Definitively drinkable and interesting, but as this is my first hoppy cider I don’t really know what to expect. I was looking forward to some more fruity hops here. Have to try some other ciders in this style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. An almost clear one, pale yellowish golden body under some off-white head. The aroma is rather hoppy, with citrus and pine cones. Grapefruit and some peaches. There’s apples too, with some baked apple notes. The apples are more evident in the flavor, but there’s still quite a lot of pine cones and citrus peel. It’s medium bodied and semi-dry, with a nice carbonation. Lasting finish with a nice blend of apples and citrusy, piney hops. Quite decent this one. 150724
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 650ml @ gunnfryd’s hytte
Pours clear pale yellow with a short lasting white head. Aroma has notes of apples pine and citrus. Taste is light sweet and light sour with a long dry, apple and citrus finish. Body is light, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Sampled from the tap at the Hop Shop. Pours a clear very pale gold a with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has a nice rich apple with a bit of bitter hops and acid coming through. Flavor has much more of a mealy apple with some earthiness and a bit of bitterness.