6.2

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

PET bottle from Quenches in Bedford. It pours clearish orange with a a few bubbles on the cap. The aroma is earthy, tangy apple pie, ripe, funky farmyard action, hay, some marmalade and Irn Bru. The taste is rather drying upfront, tannic / astringenct, really dries out the tongue, woody, chewy, leathery, touch powdery, ripe apple, barnyard, wood, touch of acidity, gooseberry and white grape with a drying and somewhat astringent finish. Medium body and flat. I rather like the aroma, but actually find it too dry and astringent (which is unusual for me). A decent trad scrumpy, but would like it to be a bit more chuggable.