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30.12.2023, 0,75l bottle (2022 vintage) @ home:
Nice fizzy shortlasting head, clear light golden color. Aroma is fresh fruity, apple peel, dried apples, yeast, flowers, alcohol, dusty apples, leafs, apple winegum, hops. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, unripe apples, sorrel, flowers, citrus, alcohol, leafs, apple peel, apple winegum, hops. Medium bitterness, slightly harsh sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Fair enough, far from the best hoppy cider I've had.

Clear pale golden, sparkling, no head. Aroma of elderflower, green and yellow apples. Tastes fresh and citric, apple and lemon.

750 ml corked & caged dark green bottle, vintage 2022, from Vinmonopolet Odda. ABV is 7%. Clear and pale golden colour, pours moderately sparkling with a small and shortlived white head. Nice aroma of apples, hints of hops and sulphites. Crisp and dry flavour of apples and moderate hops, a hint of sulphites.

Sjøen 270923. Pale golden color with no head. Aroma is apple, sourness. Flavor is apple, hop, sourness, pine, tropical fruit. Nice cider.

Bottle, 75cl corked. A clear, lightly sparkling straw colored cider with no bubbles on top. The aroma has a delicious grapefruity, piney hoppiness, with some tropical fruityness. Yellow apple in the back. It's medium to full bodied, with a quite high but pleasant carbonation level. Mostly on the dry side, with some sweet fruityness. Fortunately not any bitterness. The flavor too is quite hop dominated, with fresh apple juice in the back. Hints of orange zest. Lingering hop and apple flavor. Sure nice, refreshing and tasteful, but even though I really like what the hops bring to the table, I think they take too much focus from the apples. 230926