Old Hill Cider Cidermaker's Barrel

Cidermaker's Barrel

 

Old Hill Cider in Timberville, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Cider Regular
Score
6.90
ABV: 11.5% IBU: - Ticks: 5
Cidermaker’s Barrel is an exciting, complex cider that is crafted from the wild yeast that has developed from decades of cider making and maintaining orchards on Old Hill. After pressing, the cider is racked into bourbon barrels where the slow, steady, natural fermentation process results in unique, robust characteristics. This traditional Old Hill process is a bit wild, like cider making of old, and therefore somewhat unpredictable, but expect bright, tropical fruitiness of the reserve cider that colonial cidermakers would have kept back for their own enjoyment.
 

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8.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Total Wine and More in Reston, VA Aroma: apples, woody, bourbon Appearance: clear golden with a thin white head Taste: medium sweetness, light tartness Mouthfeel: average carbonation, oily feel, light body, long finish Tasty

Tried from Bottle on 10 Aug 2019 at 23:16


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Pour is light gold. Strong bourbon oak smell. Tart apple with bourbon palate

Tried on 03 Aug 2019 at 20:37


4.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Rubber, apple smell. Clear champagne colored, some carbonation. Bone dry, with tart apple finish. Butter and oak at midpalate. Light body, spritzy. Wow, this is not for me. Too dry, too much like chardonnay.

Tried on 18 May 2015 at 21:45


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a bottle shared by my dear friend, Rosemary who picked this up while on a winery tour. Poured a translucent, slightly pale yellow color. Aroma had plenty of apples, pear notes, a little barrel. Flavor was apples, bourbon notes. Easy drinking, good.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2013 at 23:34


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a bottle shared at a local homebrew club meeting. Pours a crystal clear pale yellow color with no head. Aroma of grainy apples and pear, earth and dandelion. The taste is apples, wood, earth, an almost mushroomy note, the faintest whisky note and a slightly bitter finish. Medium bodied. Certainly different and quite nice.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2012 at 21:10