6.6

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

Bottle from the Shacksbury cider club. This was the middling bottle of three varieties. Two month sleep in the fridge. First bottle was consumed soon after arriving. Pours a seemingly flat, opaque, dark oily gold. Smell is yeasty, boozy, macerated stuffy apples, earth, shrooms, veg, solvent, curious fruit punch on the tail. Taste is murky. Decent acid, earthy, tangy sweet apple skins, more veg, plastic-y ferment, definitely wild & iffy apples. Off/bittersweet. Carbonation was low, but existed. Very yeasty despite ample settling time. Bit boozy for the reported 6.9%. That exact number always makes me smirk a little. Okay.