Free Bird Hopped Cider 2020 (Dry-hopped with Comet)
Brouwerij Hoppug in Meerhout, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij LeysenCider - Hopped Special
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Score
6.45
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours very clear, wattery yellow. Scent is strong, fleshy apples, but mostly hoparoma. Tad dank, drassy, milder hopfruityness. Taste is Sharp, dry, tad acidic, apples, harsh, milder than expected hoparoma. Wattery body, medium carbo. Bit unpleasantly thin and dry to me.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2020
at 10:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Bottle shared at Maakun’s. Hazy pale straw, almost white. Dry hard apple, some hard pear too, grassy, watered down pineapple juice. Very watery and dry, “almost” sour. This cider really seems to need the hops to have a wider flavour. Quite dry, quite hop-fruity. Okay. --- Beer merged from original tick of Free Bird Hopped Cider 2020 on 26 Jun 2020 at 23:16 - Score: 6. Original review text: “Comet dryhopped.” Dry hard apple, some hard pear too, grassy, watered down pineapple juice. Very watery and dry, “almost” sour. This cider really seems to need the hops to have a wider flavour. Quite dry, quite hop-fruity. Okay.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Joran Cidrothèque
on 26 Jun 2020
at 21:16
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Hazy greenish pale yellow with small white head. Dry apple, green apple, dank green hops, light malty, soft yeast, light bandaids, dry mineral notes. Light sweet, bitter and very light sour. Light bodied and a bit watery, light dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2020
at 20:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bouteille 33cl de Joran - Belgian cider discovery box.
BB 08/2022.
Très clair sur de fines notes dorées, col fin blanc disparaissant très vite.
Arôme est fruité - pommes vertes, avec un bon apport houblonné - notes de pamplemousse.
Palais est sec, caractère pomme avec un effet 'wild yeast' brett like du houblon Comet. Retrouve un fini de pamplemousse plaisant qui vient ajouter une belle amertume avec une petite touche terreuse en retrait. Fini un peu funk - agrumes.
Effervescence est haute et bien pétillante, faisant ressortir le côté râpeux de la pomme.
BB 08/2022.
Très clair sur de fines notes dorées, col fin blanc disparaissant très vite.
Arôme est fruité - pommes vertes, avec un bon apport houblonné - notes de pamplemousse.
Palais est sec, caractère pomme avec un effet 'wild yeast' brett like du houblon Comet. Retrouve un fini de pamplemousse plaisant qui vient ajouter une belle amertume avec une petite touche terreuse en retrait. Fini un peu funk - agrumes.
Effervescence est haute et bien pétillante, faisant ressortir le côté râpeux de la pomme.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2020
at 12:27