Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Thanet Cider & Perry Festival 2008. Yeasty toasty apple aroma. Porcini mushrooms on aroma and a hint of mint, some leather, some apple. It’s ok. Some apple and mint. Fine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Plastic cask, 7.4% at GBBF08. Hazy yellow colour. Watery dry cider flavour. No carbonation. Quite boring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
GBBF2008. Very pale yellow colour, no head. Aroma is pear, some sour wood and mild notes of cheese. Flavour is pear, oak and smooth wood. Nice finish. Wellbalanced. Rather sweet and dry.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at Edinburgh beer festival 2008 ... Very pale yellow ... little pear little tart but the ballance isnt there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bag in a box at Rare Breeds BF 08. Hazy pale gold/green. Nice perry. Cheesy perry, but really drinkable. Bit of sour sting. In terms of drinkability, it’s great. Dryness invites you to drink it again. Lovely bit of lemon, pear. Outstanding.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at aberdeen Beer festival ... Very pale hazy yellow ... tart dry nose ... lots of pear ... very dry ... little vinegar bit in back of throat but nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[i] [b] Polypin at Banbury Beer Festival 08-05-08 [/i] [/b] Hazy golden orange colour little bit cloudy, I didn’t get the smokiness on the nose half as well as Loz but on second sniff I detected some there. Nicely rounded apple flavour the barrel ageing has taken some rough edges of of this or maybe just nullified the out and out appleyness, whatever its soft fruity but not full on fruity. Not as dry as I anticipated but with a nice smoky kick back at the end in the mouth very decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
[i] [b] Bottle that I picked up at a farm shop between Hereford and nowhere, well possibly Wales [/i] [/b] Pour mid - deep gold with a straggly lazy carbonation. The nose is soft apple juice with just a sharpness there giving a slight hint of what is to come. Starts with a real sharp and crisp bite at one point the enamel on my teeth felt like that they’d been given a bleaching or something such was the feeling that it left on my front teeth. The sharpness lingered briefly but then waned, there was little if no sweetness. This was a very nice cider but a bit of a challenge.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[i] [b] Bottle picked up from farmshop somewhere between Hereford and Hay on Wye (I think) [/i][/b] Pours still, hazy and with some very fine sediment. Wonderful aroma of pears and yes the rum is noticeable but not too pushy. Tastes good very ripe squidgy pears, reminds me of really ripe and soft pears strength is there but it doesn’t get in the way of what is a jolly decent Perry, I liked this.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Barrel at GBBF 2007. An unclear golden cider with no head. The aroma is sweet apply, and so is the flavor with a dryness to it. The body is thin inspite of the 6% ABV.