Compton Orchard Black Cider
Brothers Cider (Brothers Group) in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴
Cider Regular|
Score
5.86
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle from B&M Stores. Pours clear gold with some residual bubbles on top. Cheap apple cider aroma as expected. Faint fruitiness but quite sugary and artificial. Flavour is an improvement with some apple fruitiness and skins, light sourness, slightly over-sweetened, finish has a nice dryness but a rather abrasive alcohol warmth on the way down. Not great of course but I prefer this to the more sessionable Compton version.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
2L plastic bottle from B&M, Darlington. Clear golden colour, fizzy white foam head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of sourish apple, chemical, plastic, sulphur. Taste is sweet, apple, tangy, some peel and core, astringent, tart, citric acidity. Medium bodied, high carbonation, lingering sugary and drying astringency at the finish. Not great.