Besta
Lagar de Ribela in A Estrada, Galicia, Spain 🇪🇸
Cider - Hopped Regular|
Score
6.97
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Dry hopped cider.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
330ml bottle from Finger Lakes in Ithaca. Clear plastic cup. Hotel. Sad. Mostly clear, orange amber, very thin & airy head, like it's half flat. Very herbal, sweet sweat, clay nose. Slightly foul funk, old veg, lemon, bittersweet, pithy, over-steeped & lingering green tea. Mellow, almost flat carbonation, moderate tartness, strong & building sour + acidity. Unique, but not great. I want to like this, but it's difficult.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2022
at 04:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml courtesy of Taboada. Many thanks! Drunk on New Years Eve 2018. Pours gold with a light mist. Aroma is moderately sweet apple juice, light sour. Taste sees the citric hop notes work in tandem with the fruity sharp, lightly sour apple notes, some bitter skins with a soft bitter acidity. Decent Galician cider.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2018
at 18:27
8/10
Bottle, thanks Alex! Funky basement, wilf yeast, fermenting apples, green hoppyness. Bone dry finish. Great stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2018
at 16:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Orange, somewhat flat. Nose feels musty, not so intense and somewhat covered. Still some apples down there. Taste has apples, light bitterness with apple acidity. Good balance but lacks that vinegar balsamico that I like and also intensity that the previous version had. Still enjoyable.
Tried
on 30 Jun 2018
at 13:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Very hazy light amber brown color. The apples are battling the west coast hops and it’s coming out muddled.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2018
at 06:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks jinroh for sharing the bottle! Poured into a taster showing moderately filtered pale amber with no head. The nose shows moderately intense notes of barnyard and light brett. The palate is light bodied. Moderately tart with the same intense notes of barnyard and a mild bitterness on the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2018
at 06:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, many thanks herrklemann & Taboada. Aroma is funky, horsestables, juicy hops, leathery. Taste is juicy hops, earthy, leathery, hay, apples. Mineralic finish, slight vanilla aftertaste, low carbonation. Incredibly interesting, works out well! I like!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2018
at 20:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle HCB Beer Club 3-12-18
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2018
at 01:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured at Shelton Festival, hazy yellow with small white head. The aroma is oak, apple, pear, grass. Thin body, tart apple, light oak, nice dry finish, very good.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2017
at 19:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Taboada. Euro swap. Thanks!Hazy amber colour. Lots of dry, green apples, some sweetness. Bitter hoppy finish. Well balanced. Good cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2017
at 08:29