Black Cider
Union Brands Ltd in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England 🏴
Cider - Medium Regular|
Score
5.04
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Produced in Herefordshire, from a blend of apples sourced in the local area Union Black is made to the highest quality standards.
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Grumbo (24387) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
31/8/2023. Super looking can from a random corner shop in London. Pours clear deep golden with a short lasting frothy white head. Aroma is rough, boozy, metallic, syrupy, artificial apple, burnt tyre rubber. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Medium body, oily and sticky, very fizzy. Quality park bench stuff.
dragnet101 (5184) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pours an orange/gold colour, with a sparkling carbonation. Mildly tart dry green apple aroma with sulphur and some booze. Taste is exactly that, not fresh but pleasant enough. The finish is on the astringent side of dry with a boozy kick. Body is light to moderate, a little syrupy with a spritzy carbonation. Its not great but the balance between tart and sweet is fine. Its perfectly drinkable.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
500ml can, thanks to Danlo for this! Pours pale greenish yellow. Aroma is syrupy, apple flavouring. Syrupy on the palate, awful metallic alcohol with an annoyingly familiar artificial apple character that I remember only too well from my student days. Battled through half the can before I had to pour down the sink.
danlo (13133) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
500ml can from B&M, Darlington. 8.4%. Golden colour, white foam head that dissipates away and aroma of sweet sugary apple flavour with sulphur & solventy notes. Taste is sweet and tart, apple flavour, green apple, with drying alcohol and some astringency. Slightly syrupy mouthfeel, medium bodied, spritzy carbonation, drying boozy finish. Not great, just about drinkable.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Can shared on Level 42 for Cloin's 20K Tasting, 13/09/2017. Thanks ? to scopey. A very clear yellow coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is weird, salty beef, bistol, dusty apple, potato. Flavour is composed of tangy apple, baby sick, bile, burnt hair. Palate is tangy, sour, moderate carbonation. Terrible terrible.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can shared in London for cloin's 20k - cheers! Pours clear yellow with a small white head. The nose has a little dough, vague ripening apples, maybe some pancakes. Medium sweet flavour with dried apple peel, some pie crust, a little citric note. Medium bodied with spritzy carbonation. Impressively dry in the finish, with a little mustiness, more dry apple skins. Not actually that bad. Much drier than a typical cheap strong cider.
WingmanWillis (38284) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can at Cloins 20k. Thanks to Scopey for this whale. Pours yellow gold with a thin white head. Aroma is like the filling of a cheap Yorkshire meat pie, gravy and some onion, the apples do come through after much sniffing. Taste is a sweetish hit, bit of apple in there. It certainly tastes better than it smells. Maybe a bit syrupy but had worse
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can split at my 20 KAY tastin, thanks to Scopey .... LET THE COUNTDOWN CLOSE .... THIS IS beverage 20 thousand on the rate my beer dot com website, 13/09/17. Clear golden orange with a decent off white covering. Nose is Maccy D's hot molten apple pie things, bit of glue, paper, grains, orchard ting. Taste comprises harsh apple effect, earthy, straw, paper, caramel, toffee apple, bitter edge. Medium bodied with a boosty pinch ... fine carbonation .... drying close with an apple orchard whiplash. Jeeeesus you cider xnobes ... this is better than half the farmyard barnyard arseholeyard REAL ciders you drop. T Hanks! PS .... if there was a White Cider style this bad boy would PISS the top 50 !!!
Scopey (25115) reviewed Black Cider from Union Brands Ltd 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Can for Colin's 20K at L42. Bought from Arampu Superfood. It pours clear piss yellow with a small white head. The aroma is very savoury, mashed potatoes, beef dripping, bisto, trash, damp hay and no apple to speak off. The taste is soft, sticky, apple juice from concentrate, McDonald's apple pie, hot trash, sherbets streak, very sugary, acidic burn and potatoes peelings with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Weird hot trash cider made from potato peelings.