Original | Vintage Apple Cider
Merrydown in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England 🏴
Cider - Medium Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.22
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5/10
Tried
on 05 Jan 2025
at 14:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from Asda, which my daughter wanted to mull but I managed to grab a taster first. Bit of a blast from the past this! When I first started pubbing in the early nineties you generally only found Strongbow or (hopefully) Dry Blackthorn on the bar. Very occasionally you would come across Merrydown, which seemed like quite a treat compared to the other two. I was interested to see what I thought of it nowadays. It's a pale gold cider with a middling fizz. Tastes of sweet dessert apples with a hint of lemon. There's a waft of dry apple skins in the finish. It's quite light tasting and a big thin and watery, but there's nothing unpleasant about it. It's pretty drinkable actually. Better than I expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2024
at 13:45
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Clear pale golden colour, foamy white head that quickly dissipates and aroma of baked apple, sugary. Taste is sweet, cooking apple, some core, with sugar and slight citric acidity. Medium bodied, light carbonation, sweet tangy cooked apple finish. OK, quite sweet.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2023
at 22:05
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
14/11/2023. Bottle from Tesco, Martlesham. Pours clear very pale gold with a small short lasting frothy white head. Aroma is sweet, sugary, apple, shortbread. Very sweet candied apple taste. Moderate body, oily, fizzy. Odd sweet stewed artificial finish. Not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2023
at 20:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Spotty beige head on a well carbonated golden coloured body. Sweet apple aroma. Sweet apple, light funk & sweeter on the back with dry finish. Cider innit.
Tried
on 12 May 2023
at 17:04
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Golden with moderate fizziness. Ripe, pulpy, apple fruit, a hint of sourness and a floral edge, before a short finish. So so.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2021
at 19:11
5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
75cl bottle from B&M.
Very thin white head which vanishes fast. Clear golden pour. An average cider.
Very thin white head which vanishes fast. Clear golden pour. An average cider.
Tried
from Bottle
from
B&M Bargains U.K Chain
on 07 Nov 2020
at 21:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
750ml green bottle: BB 22nd May 2022. Shared with my son on 3rd Nov 2020. Nice, smells and tastes of apples!
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2020
at 10:42
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
750ml Bottle found lurking on the bottom shelf of Asda. Pale gold and brief fizz. Aroma is sweet slightly sour with a yeast/chalk note. Taste is disappointing like very sour apple juice. Light body but a little oily on the palate. Low to moderate carbonation which doesn't really add anything. Poor stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2020
at 23:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Premier Hele Bay, Ilfracombe. Extremely pale green cider. It’s dry in texture, but there’s a good apple sweetness to it in its taste before dry again in its aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2016
at 13:12