7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Ciderwinkel. Aroma is funky with horseblanket, tart and sweet apple, barnyard, touch of sulphur and smoke. Flavour is moderate tart and sweet, body is medium. Captivating complex wild aroma.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle online from Cloudwater during lockdown times. Poured clear copper gold with translucent bubbles. Aroma: bittersweet apple, caramel, light smoke, funk, oak. Taste: light to moderate sweet, bittersweet apple, funk, tannins, oak. Dry on the palate. Medium body with spritzy carbonation.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Aroma of apple sweetness, oak, bit of vinegar. Deep reddish golden-amber with lace. Quite effervescent at first. Crisp, bitter flavor, touch of tartness and sweetness, funky, oaky edge. Perfect carbonation is light but persistent. Quite wonderful. Slight puckery feeling in the mouth lasts a long time.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from The Beerhive. Clear deep golden body with a thin white head that quickly fades. Lively carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of oak and a hint of cider vinegar. Flavour of crisp, bitter apple and a juicy, moreish finish. Thin body with a slick texture. Soft fizz. Great depth.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home, shared with Sharon on the Courtyard Dairy tutored cheese and cider tasting with Andy and Tom Oliver, 05/04/21. Clear golden copper with a good sized white cap as it goes for ciders eventually fading away.. Nose is bitter sweet apple, light smoke, trace of funk, caramel. Taste comprises bitter sweet apple, charred wood, funk, tannins, oak, orchard woods. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close Solid stuff ... good tangy apple bite throughout.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle from Pop'n'Hops. Golden amber colour, white foam head that quickly dissipates away to a thin rim and aroma of tangy apple, woody oak. Taste is woody barrel, oaky, fruity apple, tangy, funky with drying tannins. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry woody tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.

7

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

330ml bottle shared with Soph. Pours a generally clear caramel amber. Aroma of caramelised fruit, coarse wood, light sulphur. Taste presents a nice woodiness, pleasant wild notes, very distant varnish with gentle tannins on the close, fine carbonation. A bit unusual but good stuff overall.

8

Clear amber-ish with small white ringhead. Dry cider, cow’s wet asshole🐮, super dry wood, applestems, oak, tanninbomb to the max. Insanely dry. I feel turned inside out, amazing. 🪵

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared. Clear deep golden with a ring if white foam. Deep barnyard funk, dry apple peel, woody, fruit peel, cow sweat. Massive barnyard with soft fruit. Like licking a wooden cow. Light sweet, under medium bitter. Medium bodied, BONE and BONE dry. 'Some' residual sweetness, haha, funny. Quite OK but not to drink a lot of it.

7

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

Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - amber with low carbonation. Nose - stewed and slightly woody apple. Taste - sweet stewed apple, tangy sour edge. Palate - tangy and dry. Close to medium bodied. Overall - good.