Medium Dry Irish Craft Cider
Nohoval Drinks Co. - Stonewell Cider in Kilnagleary, Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
Cider - Sweet Regular|
Score
6.50
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This is a classic cider. With a wonderful fresh apple juice aroma and effervescence that tickles the nose the cider gives an initial burst of sweet apple flavour on the palate followed by citrus and woody notes derived from the bittersweet and Jonagored apples used as the base ciders. This carbonated cider is best enjoyed as a refreshing thirst quencher, chilled to 7 degrees (watch the ice – whilst it will maintain the chill it can conceal the full flavour!).
This was our first and remains our most popular cider. The medium dry contains approximately 20% cider apples and 80% eating apples. The cider apples provide the astringency in the cider and the structure on which the full, rounder and more citrus characteristics of the eating apples hang themselves. Our apples for this cider are currently drawn from the counties of Laois, Waterford and Tipperary. The eating apples are harvested from late July through to September and the bittersweet apples are available from October onwards.
This was our first and remains our most popular cider. The medium dry contains approximately 20% cider apples and 80% eating apples. The cider apples provide the astringency in the cider and the structure on which the full, rounder and more citrus characteristics of the eating apples hang themselves. Our apples for this cider are currently drawn from the counties of Laois, Waterford and Tipperary. The eating apples are harvested from late July through to September and the bittersweet apples are available from October onwards.
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7/10
Full flavor, tart but balanced. Nice cider.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2025
at 21:21
6/10
Too sweet
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Feb 2024
at 22:40
6/10
Sweet applejuice, with tart edge. Light tannins, a bit of almondy tannins. Quite plain, quite sweet, but nice and crisp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2021
at 00:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Aroma is good apple slight raisin rather sweet and yeasty. Taste is sweet apple with good slightly fermented body. Good balance. Drinkable. Surprisingly good for a random cider in a cinema. (Star wars episode IX for the record)
Tried
on 18 Dec 2019
at 22:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours clear gold with limited white foam. Aroma is sweet of apples, apricots. Body is average, with good carbonation. Taste is medium-high sweet. Final is fairly long and sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2019
at 19:20
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle @ Bell Bar, Cork (Maldron Hotel). Small head with short duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are apple juice, fruits, little sugar and has a semi dry and light sour finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2019
at 21:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle sampled at Cider festival. Almost clear yellow golden with white head. Sweet apple, light tart apple grapes and a burn if lemon. A touch of funk and sweet and sour pears. Medium sweet, light tart. Medium bodied. Fresh and clean, nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2019
at 14:07
5/10
Tried
on 29 Jan 2019
at 16:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at L. Mulligan Grocer, Dublin. Clear golden with small white head. Lots of apples, tart and sweet. Bit too much sweetness in finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
L. Mulligan. Grocer.
on 28 Jan 2019
at 06:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Sterk, Amsterdam. Golden colour, white foam head and fruity apple aroma. Taste is juicy apple, sweet, fruity, with a caramel hint, and some woody tartness. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, medium-dry finish. Quite drinkable
Earlier Rating: 7/24/2018 Total Score: 3.1
500ml bottle from Baggot Street Wines. Golden colour, foamy white head that dissipates away to a thin layer leaving some lacing and musty apple aroma. Taste is tangy apple, sweet, with some light oak, caramel and funk. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi-dry finish. Quite drinkable.
Earlier Rating: 7/24/2018 Total Score: 3.1
500ml bottle from Baggot Street Wines. Golden colour, foamy white head that dissipates away to a thin layer leaving some lacing and musty apple aroma. Taste is tangy apple, sweet, with some light oak, caramel and funk. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi-dry finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2018
at 20:18