Ciderboys Raspberry Smash
Stevens Point Brewery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Other Fruit Regular|
Score
6.31
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3
12oz can from 604. Mojito glass @home. Clear, some jelly haze, medium gold, soapy lace. Smell is mostly strawberry/raspberry jam, not fresh fruit. Strawberry sweet, raspberry acidity/tartness, soft & sweet, Mott's on the backend, dusty powdered sugar. Can says it's back sweetened. I always feel like that is cheating. Unusually frothy, soft but ample carbonation. Tastes natural, but this is more juice box than cider.
Pours with no head and a mild haze. Aroma of sour fruit. Taste has heavy artificial raspberry, tart note on sweet malt. Palate has much of the same. Eh.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From a bottle it looks like any other clear pale beer or cider. Nose of fun raspberry lace permeates the whole environment. Close up I smell a little off apple as well. First taste is lots of flavor, pleasantly sweet flavor but not cloying. Enjoyable actually, I think I get a hint of tartness in there too, a little like a sweet-tart but not quite. Interesting, these cider boys have about the same taste sensation as I like. Most of these brews are quitee tasty without any hint of artificial character. Yes, nicely balanced. I'm liking this. Very decent, very friendly, people who hate bitter beer will like this. I think cider boys is becoming one of my preferred domestic cideries.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
It smells of ripe apples and raspberries. The flavor is very sweet. Apples dominate. Raspberries are there though. It’s too sweet though not too bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Raspberry pretty strong here, but a decent amount of raspberry. Ends up sweeter than any of the two elements alone. Golden pour. Tap at Auggie's.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled form a 12 oz brown bottle this cider poured a murky orange-amber color with a small soapy white head that left no lacing. The aroma was sweet raspberry, cherry and pie crust. The flavor was strong sweet raspberry and apple pie. Long finish. Moderately full bodied. Excellent.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Pale yellow pour with a tiny white head and no retention. Fair lacing. Sweet apple cider flavor with minimal raspberry notes. Not dry. Really refreshing.