Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear 500ml bottle: BBE August 2024, shared with Ben (my son) at home on 6th January 2024. Apples, dry tasting apples, not sweet, or tart, just dry.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear 50cl bottle: BBE Jun 2022. Nice apple aroma and taste, the first of three ciders I rated at home on 30th Nov 2020.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Ludlow Food Centre. Pours a deep gold with a light mist. Aroma is light wild, funk, apple breeze. Gentle, almost natural sparkle. Taste presents a bracing acidity, dusty tannins, wild funk, good apple fruit, drying close. Gentle underlying medium apple fruit. Less harsh than previous Mahorralls.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Moonshine & Fuggles, Ironbridge. Pours orange golden in colour with a white foam head that quickly dissipates away. Aroma of mellow juicy apple and light apple skin. Fruity apple flavour with barnyard & woody notes, bitterweet with lots of dry earthy tannins. Medium bodied, medium carbonation, very dry tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Moonshine & Fuggles, Ironbridge. Clear orange gold colour, white foam head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of juicy apple, funk, rubber. Taste is tart apple, apple skins, caramel, barnyard, rubber, woody oak and drying tannins. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, low to medium carbonation, very dry tannic finish. Nicely drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from the producer @ Whitchurch Food & Drink Festival june 14, drunk in the garden at home. Pours dark purple, still, with an aroma of hedgerow berries. Nicely blended taste, not too sweet, a little astringent with damsons and blueberries adding to it’s natural acidic tang. Nice but not sure I’d reach for another.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from the producer @ Whitchurch Food & Drink Festival June 14, drunk in the garden at home. Pours a murky brown, light ginger aroma. Taste is soft ginger with that Mahorall cider tang. Moderately sweet and moreish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle from the producer @ Whitchurch Food & Drink Festival June 14. Pours an Irn Bru orange, lightly sparkling, deep bruised apple in the taste with a rosy floral sweetness & dusty tannins. Thirst-quenching and moreish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from a farm shop somewhere in Herefordshire. Has a dry chickenshed aroma, extremely dry, astringent tang that clings to the back of the throat. Quite enjoyed this. Can see it in a snazzy new label stocked in the major stores before too long.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours a cloudy orangey-red, with no bubbles (as expected). The nose has apples, cider vinegar and then an appley-yeasty note. The taste has tart apples and more of the sour yeast. The palate is tight but intense in structure and texture and there is a persistent sour finish. Overall, perhaps this is what Scrumpy is supposed to be. It reminds me somewhat of a lambic in terms of the palate - I like it a lot.