Ciderniks Kingston Black

Kingston Black

 

Ciderniks in Hungerford, Berkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Cider - Single Variety Regular
Score
6.55
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Kingston Black, ABV 6.5%, a single varietal cider made from Kingston Black apples grown in Herefordshire. With that distinctive Kingston Black ‘nutty’ taste.

Kingston Black awarded 1st place in the 2015 CAMRA South of England Cider Competition
 

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6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

21/1/2020. Bottle from Inn At Home, Newbury. Pours clear pale gold with a small bubbly head. Aroma is funky, mucky farmyard, tart apples. Moderate sweetness, tartness and body. Slight oily texture, average carbonation. Dry, tart, tangy, tannic, and slightly salty finish.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2020 at 21:11


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle from Ciderniks online. Gold colour, no head and aroma of mellow apple & funk. Taste is fruity apple, with leathery funk, some hay & biscuity notes, and tannin. Medium bodied, low carbonation, dry tangy tannic finish. Quite OK.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2017 at 12:26


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle from Cotteridge Wines. Pours a hazy gold, no head, still. Aroma is lightly sour orchard funk. Taste is lightly oily, strong Kingston Black character, nice robust fruit with a very mild tannic tang. Given how old and neglected this bottle looks it seems to have held up well.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2016 at 15:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bag in a box at The Curfew, Berwick-upon-tweed. Pours golden orange with no head. Still. Aromas of sour apples, chalky. Taste is cooking apples, astringent finish.

Tried on 31 May 2016 at 08:55


7

Tried on 18 May 2014 at 14:44


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Polycask @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2012, Reading, Berkshire England.Hazy - murky matt medium orange colour with a small, fizzy and open, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, spicy, cinnamon, medicine, apple skin. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to light moderate acidic with a long duration, dry, cinnamon sugary. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20120505]

Tried from Cask on 19 Jun 2013 at 18:47


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bag-in-the-box at Post Office Vaults, Birmingham
Hazy golden color. Mild nice aroma of apples and hazelnuts. Light body; simple apple juice flavor, medium-dry, with some apple skins, and late light astringency.
Simple but pleasant.

Tried on 13 Jul 2012 at 16:45


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Polycask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Hazy orange colour, no head. Aroma is apples, wood, mild cheesy notes as well as some yeastyness. Flavour is apples, quite acidic with some yeasty and cheesy notes. Pleasantly balanced, quite bodied and really drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 26 Jun 2012 at 09:25


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Polycask at the Shoulder of Mutton 21.06.12 6.5% Dark gold bit furry, nicely tangy, good clarity, dry at end quite an assertive beast. Enjoyable but not massively so A6 A3 T7 P3 Ov13 3.2

Tried from Cask on 22 Jun 2012 at 10:29