Bittersweet Farmhouse Cider
Eve's Cidery in Van Etten, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Cider Regular|
Score
6.94
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Hard to rate this @ the Farmer’s Market with that hipster fish monger downwind. Lowball glass at home, sweaty bottle. Clear, active, yellow & amber body. Smell is mushy/caramelized red fruit, grass, alcohol, & yeast. Lacking. Taste is better. Damp, macerated apples. Saline. Very mellow alcohol. Not much tartness. Could be juicer. Moderate acidity. Earthy bitterness. Pinch of sourness on the finish. The carbonation is really nice. Strong, but not irritating. Husky dryness. After a few slurps, my tongue feels like I was just eating a bowl of almonds. Tasty cider, but it could use a bolder nose. I’m more concerned though about what kind of sucker pays almost $24lb for swordfish?!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
bottle Tampa xmas gathering pours a light hazy golden, thin fizzy white head. aroma and flavor, what really stuck to mind is how acerbic the mouthfeel was, nice dry finish with bitter apples, but I would have loved to a tad more sweetness in there.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
I want to preface by saying that goldtwins and JoeMcPhee know nothing about good cider (for goodness sake they think everything tastes like dill). Special bottle provided by apoptosis and notalush (yeah I put the woman first, someone thank me for it) [Completely unrelated, I am having deja vu right now]. The cider does pour an ugly color (which is usual for a lot of cider), almost clear water but has a hue of yellow. Aroma is some booze, isopropanol, light apple sweetness, which is spiky. The alcohol however adds to the heft of the beer, which is uncommon in a lot of ciders. Taste is granny smith apples skins’, slight sour apple, grapes, and again heft from alcohol. Again the alcohol ends a heft (and in a way a legitimacy) to the cider which is rare among ciders. P.S. screw Larry and Joe.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle purchased from the cidery’s booth in the Union Square farmers’ market - somewhat hazy, very light golden pour, with a small head fed by a continuous stream of bubbles traveling up the sides of the glass - light but pleasant barnyardy aroma (almost gueuze-ish), slight funkiness, with a soft background smell of over-ripe apples - light apple sweetness up front, followed by a crisp, almost spicy character that swells in the mouth - very subdued earthy qualities follow, leading into a long, dry, almost funky tart finish - crisp, light and refreshing, which is a bit dangerous considering the abv, but a quality cider none-the-less.