Cloud City | Alabaster City
Graft Cider in Newburgh, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Flavoured (Other) Regular|
Score
7.02
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Mrf33n3y (6649) ticked Cloud City | Alabaster City from Graft Cider 4 years ago
Interesting blend of sweet and hoppy. Vanilla and milk sugar add a really nice finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Pale golden and almost straw yellow coloured body with a faint pure white head that fades faster than soda and leaves nothing on top. Aroma of flowers, apples, light citrus and mangoes with some subdued creamy and almost icing sugar-like sweetness in the nose at least. Light-bodied; Strong apple and spiced flavours dominate with a lot of allspice, canella, grass and hay notes around with some citrus and lactose on the edges and only a touch of the floral aspects. Aftertaste shows more of the apples, yeast, bread and light spiced pear notes than anything else with a lot of complexity running towards the end from the spices and sugars without much support or balance to counteract. Overall, a relatively strong and deeply spiced cider with more of a funky and dry and herbal profile than sweet and fruity. Nice to try, but not one of the better ones from the producer - this can be passed up, if there are other options from Graft, as ther offerings are usually much better! I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Crystal City Wine Shop in Arlington, Virginia on 18-October-2019 for US$4,04 sampled at home in Washington on 26-March-2020
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
$3.95 can from Wine Warehouse. Murky gold, no head. Mango and apple nose, light vanilla as well. Flavor is well-defined vanilla, slightly tart apple, mango. Pretty tasty.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Scary cloudy, orange & almost pulpy pour @ Bad Seed BK. Pils glass. Maybe it looks more like an over juiced mimosa? Smell is mango, vanilla powdered sugar & apple peel. Citric acid bomb. Mango juice, orange juice, vodka, green peppers, creamsicle ice cream. Think Warheads got thrown into a mango smoothie that got thinned out by too much ice. Sizzling & a bit yeasty, but not really much body to speak of. Cider is non-existent. Simple, weird, effective. Can’t hate it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can - pours gold - nose and taste of vanilla, mango, apple, light sourness - medium body