Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared in High Wycombe. Pours clear gold. Nice ripening apples in the nose, a little spice, skins. Medium sweet flavour with ripe, chewy apples, some musty notes. Medium bodied. Sweet finish with more ripening apples, a little dry skin, some alcohol warmth. Good cider.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared at Colin’s. It pours very slightly hazy golden - amber with minimal head. The aroma is sweet - sticky, funky, marzipan, barnyard, wood, vanilla, tart tatin and hay. The taste is smooth, sweet - sour, funky, musty, juicy, dirty, apple skin, tannin, smooth, light alcohol and white grape skin with a dry finish. Medium body and no carbonation. Good depth of flavour. Nice one.
Drinking easy and clean but needs more funk for me!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
750ml bottle from Bacchanalia in Cambridge, drunk at home. Yellow-gold, clear, thin and still. Almost looks like mead. Aroma is funky and woody with apples and turpentine thrown in. Dry, sour/sweet, woody and so what medicinal taste. Long sourish finish. Lots and lots of oak in the aftertaste. A bit of a mess but I like it anyway.
Scopey (25220) reviewed Rum Cask (Draught) from Crone's Organic Cider 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF 2015. It pours lightly hazy gold, small, bubbly white head. The nose is rich, bitter - sweet, apple pie, ginger, pear skin and earth. The taste is smooth, oily, alcohol boost, spicy, rum boost, wood, musty, tartness, funk and sour apple pie with a dry, woody finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Rich, juicy and funky. Very nice indeed.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Rum Cask (Draught) from Crone's Organic Cider 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Polycask @ EBF18 2014, 18th Egham Beer Festival, Egham United Services Club (EUSC), 111 Spring Rise, Egham, Surrey, England TW20 9PE. [ As Crone’s Cider - Dry (Rum Cask) ].ABV: 8.5%. Light unclear medium orange yellow color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate apple, sweet apple, alcohol - sweet alcohol - rum - sweet rum, light barnyard. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, dry, apple, sweet rum - alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20140810]
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) @ Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street, Hackney, Greater London, England E8 1EJ. [ As Crones Special Reserve Cider ].ABV: 6.5%. Unclear - hazy matt medium yellow orange color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy apple, sweet apples, horse blanket, funky, medicine, band-aid. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, sweet apple, ripped apples, medicine, wood, dry, tanine. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20130817]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at chriso’s pre-GBBF shindig 2013 - London. Pours clear gold with a faint white cream head. The nose holds ginger and ripening apples. Medium sweet flavor, lightly musty, with faint spices, more ginger. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly drying on the finish with further musty apples, spices. Very decent cider.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Beautiful Beers online. Pours a straw yellow colour, no head and aroma of tart apple, apple skin, woody oak, barnyard. Taste is sourish, mellow sweet fruity apple with leather, straw, barnyard notes and some tannin. Syrupy mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, dry tannic finish. Quite drinkable.