Orpens Original

Original

 

Orpens in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

  Cider - Medium Regular
Score
6.06
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 12
A refreshing bittersweet cider made from 100% Irish pressed apples. Carefully selected apples from counties Tipperary and Armagh are used from orchards that produce a range of different apple varieties. The apples are fermented to cider as single varietals and then blended. Orpens is a complex and layered cider that shouts quality and character.
 

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6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

33cl bottle from factory Foods. No head. Clear golden pour. Slight tart aftertaste. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Aug 2019 at 21:51


6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

14/4/2018. Bottle at the Ibis, Cambridge. Pours clear and almost colourless, with a very short lasting white head. Aroma of apples and light oak. Medium plus sweetness, moderate sour. Moderate body, slight oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Not bad but too carbonated.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2018 at 23:52


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle @ Smoke Haus, Birmingham. Pours an exceptionally pale yellow. Lightly sweet, sugary, commercial apple cider aroma. Taste is similarly light, sweet and clean.. not a lot to it really, fairly breezy, refreshing, accessible and inoffensive.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Nov 2017 at 09:31


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Toster bar, Novi Sad. Served on a hot summer day with ice. Pale straw color with a greenish tint. Light fruity aroma; apple or light floral, sour apple, overripe apple. Dry, fruity tartness, wine-like, juicy. Light body, moderate to high carbonation, nice dry/tart finish. Nice everyday drink.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2017 at 12:56


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Very pale golden, clear; sourish fruity and cellary-barnyardy nose; fresh dryish sour-sweet flavour, light bodied, not watery; mild, but lingering sourish-sweet apply and cellary finish. Good…

Tried from Bottle on 02 Sep 2017 at 11:01


5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

33cl bottle. Poured light straw color with a thin white head. Quite fizzy and watery. Apple skin, hint of funk and minerals.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2017 at 13:50


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle, 2013 vintage. Clear pale golden colour, thin white head rapidly dissipates to nothing. Weak aroma of ripe apples, mild musty notes. Taste of sweet ripe apples, slightly tart and musty, dry bittersweet finish. Light body, average carbonation. Expected a bit more from this so-called "craft cider", it’s not bad but not different enough from any mass produced cider.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2017 at 06:08


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle. 2013 Vintage. Very pale yellow colour with a short-lived fizzy white foam head. Aroma of sweet sugary apple with a hint of sulphur. Taste is sweetish, apple, sugary and fruity, citric, with slight funk, some dryness. Light bodied, medium carbonation, dry tart finish. OK.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2017 at 13:23


5.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle at the Cerise Bar, Reading. Pale gold with a middling fizz. Sweet, but just enough tartness to make it drinkable. Light sweet eating apple flavour. Crisp finish. Easy to drink but too sweet and inoffensive there’s nothing to hold my interest here. Clearly aiming to be an artisan cider for the mass-market if you know what I mean.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2016 at 15:26


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle (from Alko Kivihaka, Vaasa, as Orpens Fresh Pressed Apple Cider Vintage 2012, 5.3 %). Pale golden colour, not that much head. Aroma is apple juice with some mild wooden notes. Flavour is apple juice, which is a bit more to the tart, than sweet side. Otherwise quite bland and almost watery.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2015 at 11:19